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  1. Online Nursing Schools vs Traditional Schools

    Benedina replied to canwil2082's topic in General Nursing

    OP, you definitely have the manners and grace to handle disappointments, so every best wish for your future. Those same manners would be an asset to almost any employer. But your statement that you're...

  2. Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

    Benedina replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    One of the GREAT benefits of HH is more autonomy over your schedule. Sometimes I'm still working late at night on my charting but I genuinely love every minute of HH. (And sometimes I'm taking a long...

  3. Interview questions

    Benedina replied to nurseontheway's topic in Home Health

    I'd save some of your questions for after their initial job offer to you. Questions that win you the job focus on THEIR needs: 1. What skills do you look for in your nurses? (Their answer is a GIANT...

  4. Favorite patients...

    Benedina replied to Trisaratops's topic in Home Health

    I'm paranoid about giving away too much personal information but a respectful salute to all my 90-something patients who are active, friendly, intelligent, wise, and just plain fun to be around....

  5. When to have the patient sign consent

    Benedina replied to KSU-SN's topic in Home Health

    Paper first. We have consents bound into a book with safety information, contact information, fall risk reduction, all kinds of useful things, so it's very natural to make this the foundation of our...

  6. Offered a job in HH

    Benedina replied to fin0814's topic in Home Health

    This roughly matches our company's pay schedule, and I find it just fine. We have clunky software and only manage about 5 visits per day, so much less income. In our part of the world? Plenty of money...

  7. Thinking of joining the HH crew (;

    Benedina replied to nurse.j.'s topic in Home Health

    Accept the M/S job, and if you get a better offer from the HH company in the same time frame, give respectful notice to the M/S job. It's a business negotiation and it's okay to jump ship for the...

  8. Who gets visits once a week?

    Benedina replied to Patchouli's topic in Home Health

    We accept private pay patients, too, so in addition to regular patients I have a few private patients who get once a week or biweekly med fills, weekly lab draw, etc. that Medicare won't cover. I also...

  9. ba to bsn

    Benedina replied to hiii's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It's much shorter, isn't it? This is what I did, and it made me an RN in 24 months. It could have been 18 but I elected the traditional path in order to work at a paid internship for one summer rather...

  10. What's your go to outfit after work?

    Benedina replied to nurse_jess's topic in General Nursing

    Eileen Fisher. It's as comfortable as sweats while making me feel as if I'm a stylin' granny. And I'm old and can afford it. Well--I can afford it when it's on clearance or eBay or in the local...

  11. Goodbye...

    Benedina replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I pretty much only check out AN when I'm procrastinating on projects, but I always looked for your posts. Happy nursing, and best wishes.

  12. Mileage question--is this the norm??

    Benedina replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in Home Health

    I think it's your hourly wage that makes the problem, personally. I'm paid per visit--roughly 150% of what you're paid per hour--and that visit time is meant to include travel time, charting time,...

  13. Grammar Police

    Benedina replied to ICURN3020's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Bucky Badger RN took exception to my suggestion that older parents will be pleased to hear from their kids, text speak and all, and wrote: "When will that day come, just so I'm prepared. I'm in my...

  14. Grammar Police

    Benedina replied to ICURN3020's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Some of our phones are still not text friendly. I care passionately about language; my first career was in publishing. But I have a work-issued phone that requires you to punch the 7 button 4 times...

  15. HH- Do you work weekends and holidays?

    Benedina replied to alnewsome's topic in Home Health

    My kiddles are grown, so I sign up for holidays often--I'd like the younger nurses to have that time with their kids, and the older nurses to have that time with their families! We generally only do...

  16. Multiple jobs

    Benedina replied to poohrn33's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at my first career for more than 20 years. I enjoy still doing a few freelance assignments in it every now and then. Like the extra money, too.

  17. Kicked out of class for a "HIPAA" violation?

    Benedina replied to Trip_McNeelyRN2b's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Telling the OP that it has nothing to do with HIPAA when her school IS telling her it is concerned with HIPAA strikes me as unhelpful. Telling the OP that she did, in fact, commit a HIPAA violation...

  18. Organizing your car

    Benedina replied to Carla25's topic in Home Health

    This plastic file box, with plastic 2-pocket folders for each client and plastic files for other forms, patient education materials, clinical info, etc. (Plastic folders are also my working surface in...

  19. Buy or Rent Nursing Textbooks

    Benedina replied to Meeh619's topic in General Students

    I bought the ones I wanted, such as my med-surg book, my pharm book, and my clinical diagnostics book, all of which I still use. I borrowed the rest from the library. (In grad school, too.) If I liked...

  20. Other nurse moms how am i going to do this? My heart hurts!

    Benedina replied to mommynurse25's topic in Nursing Career

    I'll be the contrarian, here. Many years ago I was offered (first career, publishing) a plum editorial job that would require a daily 60-mile one way commute. I already had decent, salaried work that...

  21. Patient Education in Nursing Care

    Benedina replied to AHRQ's topic in Patient Education

    An essential preparation for any patient education, including the excellent talking points of AHRQ's clinician summaries, is awareness of your patient's/family's health literacy and effective tools...

  22. computer charting is killing my career

    Benedina replied to Sterlink's topic in Home Health

    I create a Word document on my laptop for each patient. In the home, I open the software chart and use it to fill in vital signs and physical exam directly. Anything extra, I write notes into the Word...

  23. Taking NCLEX - RN tomorrow...

    Benedina replied to HomeGrownMichiganRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Congratulations, Nurse Sand Dollar!!! Makes it all worthwhile, yes? Best wishes,

  24. Over 40? Here are 7 things never to say in an interview.

    Benedina replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Yes to the recommendation that you stress your familiarity with EMR, and I'll go one step farther: show that you are comfortable with up-to-date technology and computers. How you communicate that is...

  25. What to do after a rough shift?

    Benedina replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Thomas Aquinas recommends: "suitable" pleasures, a good cry, a sympathetic friend, contemplation, a good night's sleep and a nice bath. And a glass of wine.