wonderbee

wonderbee BSN, RN

critical care; community health; psych

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  1. Think I've come to a fork in the road

    wonderbee replied to wonderbee's topic in Home Health

    I think the fact that I've worked the last three weekends has a lot to do with how I feel. I've thought of an agency change. There would still be some run over from work time into personal time and...

  2. What medical term do you dislike the most ?

    wonderbee replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    Presbyopia. Sounds like a bunch of Presbyterians on

  3. I do not think I am a good nurse

    wonderbee replied to pmw2007's topic in General Nursing

    If you do not think you are a good nurse, you will project that and that's the perception that people have of you. It sounds as though it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, you have to be...

  4. Laptop use in Home Health

    wonderbee replied to mv740's topic in Home Health

    Our company is transitioning to computer in January 2008. I'm hoping that it will save time. Do any of you actually enter the OASIS data during your eval

  5. Do you attend funerals?

    wonderbee replied to Rnmomajmj's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I found too much sadness in doing hospice work 5 days and attending funerals too. There was a month when every week I lost one. It would have been hard to choose whose funerals I would attend. There...

  6. Status asthmaticus

    wonderbee replied to tahnz0's topic in General Nursing

    The correct answer is A. I have had several of these attacks. They required inpatient hospitalization, pulmonary therapy including duonebs prn and atc, IV prednisone, IV epi and the controversial IV...

  7. Weekends and Holidays?

    wonderbee replied to mimi1's topic in Home Health

    Full time HH. Salaried. I'm back up on call one day every weekend. Usually though it's the DOCS who goes out. We get notified the night before whether we will be needed. As for holidays, we bid for...

  8. What can I do?

    wonderbee posted a topic in Home Health

    We have a patient who requires vac dressing changes 3x weekly. The house is dark and cluttered so much that the admitting nurse had to do her admission standing up. No effort was made by the caregiver...

  9. HH Offer Need Advise please!!

    wonderbee replied to kwagner_51's topic in Home Health

    I'd love a 40 hr salaried visit position. No admissions? sounds good. Lots of HH agencies contract out for IVs. Not everyone is good at it and not every patient is going to require IV access. I see...

  10. FIRED and REPORTED to the BON

    wonderbee replied to MustangSallie1997's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Whatever happened to being written up? There must be something more. Why lose a good nurse over a med error that didn't result in an event? Looking back, had you been warned about this before? You can...

  11. Is this for me?

    wonderbee replied to RNsRWe's topic in Home Health

    I've been in home care for less than a year with the same company, most of the time with hospice and now with the HH division. The idea of flexible scheduling for me has been mostly that, an idea....

  12. Bayada

    wonderbee replied to jennah982's topic in Home Health

    Bumping this back up. I too am interested in feedback about this company. I've got a recruiter from their company that I'm talking with.

  13. How Bad Is The Charting???

    wonderbee replied to deniseS's topic in Home Health

    How do you get the paperwork done in an

  14. mowing the lawn, driving and working

    wonderbee replied to erroridiot's topic in Home Health

    Nah. If the patient tells me they don't consider themselves homebound and they don't want HH yet the agency sends me out to convince them that they are homebound and they need HH,well I draw the line...

  15. How many admissions

    wonderbee posted a topic in Home Health

    How many admissions on average are you handling per week? It seems like for the last week I'm doing at least one every

  16. Criteria for admission

    wonderbee posted a topic in Home Health

    I've completed week #4 me thinks. It kind of just flew by me and I'm already swimming in (not drowning just yet) in mounds of paperwork. The more I learn, the more new forms I get exposed to. I've...

  17. LPNs glorified Techs?

    wonderbee replied to mommie2bodie's topic in General Nursing

    My experience is that LPNs are more utilized in LTC and even act in a supervisory capacity, especially in ALFs. When I worked critical care, we didn't use LPNs at all. Our hospital didn't hire them....

  18. Extended Orientation

    wonderbee replied to NewNurse16's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think it says a lot about your employer and it says a lot about you. It's all good. They're flexible and you're worth

  19. The Best Foundation for Home Health

    wonderbee replied to doglover1's topic in Home Health

    I have a critical care background. I'm finding that it is an excellent

  20. How Bad Is The Charting???

    wonderbee replied to deniseS's topic in Home Health

    I do. I just started HH. Only have less than 3 weeks in. I've been doing an admission every other day. They are the worst. The visit notes we fill out are short. They take no time at all. The OASIS is...

  21. in the dark w home health

    wonderbee replied to rxrn's topic in Home Health

    Hi edyrn. My perspective on HH is that of a newbie, although I did hospice which is a specialty of HH but really a different animal. We have a weekend nurse and a supervisor who takes triage and...

  22. Rapid Response Team for Families

    wonderbee replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    Have had experience with it being used at "X" hospital in Pittsburgh, a large teaching institution with 11 ICUs. I can tell you from experience that putting this kind of power into the hands of family...

  23. Depressed, confused, lost, and not sure if i should even be a nurse! :(

    wonderbee replied to maybaby9's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I felt much the same way you do. The first six months after graduation I was always sick. Every day was like facing another worst day of your life on the way feeling. I never felt comfortable. I...

  24. UGH what do you think?!>?

    wonderbee replied to tx2007's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I probably would have handled it as the OP did and gotten in trouble for it. However, when I worked in a hospital, it was a teaching institution and the new docs were grateful for good nursing...

  25. HH Week #2 and all is well.

    wonderbee posted a topic in Home Health

    I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is finally my niche where I can be comfortable for at least a while. Week No. 1. Day 1 was shadowing my preceptor who, poor thing, has been case managing over...