karmil

karmil

Med/Surg, OB, Home Health/Hospice

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  1. Do you care if they want you to remove your shoes?

    karmil replied to nurseby07's topic in Home Health

    PS One of the other nurses knelt down to draw blood and when she got up, cat urine covered her knees! Luckily she was close to home and could go change clothes. YUK!!!!!!!! I guess remaining in shoes...

  2. Do you care if they want you to remove your shoes?

    karmil replied to nurseby07's topic in Home Health

    I find just the opposite...when I trudge through the yard with no walk way and see the pt has a beautiful carpet, I remove my slip on shoes. I am often told I do not have to remove my shoes. I insist!...

  3. Home Health Nurse Safety

    karmil replied to JULESNYRN's topic in Home Health

    Missouri has the answer...THE RIGHT TO CARRY an CONCEALED WEAPON. Only kidding..... :) Can you see that headline? "Local Hospice Nurse Shoots Mugger on Way to Patient."

  4. LPN home health and wages..

    karmil replied to emndarmic's topic in Home Health

    I am prn and make a little more, but I think the LPN's here make $15/hr WITH a LOT of experience in Med/Surg. It is almost impossible to get a HH/H job as an LPN in Missouri. Our LPN does the almost...

  5. Opinions on this job offer?

    karmil replied to Brownie58's topic in Home Health

    Be glad your not an LPN in HH/H for a fraction of the pay. Best wishes for a GREAT JOB that you will

  6. Length of stay seems to be dropping Drastically!

    karmil replied to horsepoor's topic in Home Health

    The Nurses I work with have just mentioned this turnover and the amount of work it is causing. What can I say? We get them better

  7. Opinions, Is this illegal?

    karmil replied to meriposa's topic in Home Health

    You'd be better off as a greeter at Walmart! At least you'd make minimum

  8. Advice for a new Home Health Nurse

    karmil replied to BusyRN&Mom's topic in Home Health

    I do Hospice too. Used to be a Doula. I find Birth and death is quite the same...you must submit to the birth to bring forth new life and submit your spirit unto death to go on to the new life. There...

  9. Pay rates/mileage

    karmil replied to bill4745's topic in Home Health

    Govt mileage rate. I have a Corolla and can really do well. I sometimes do 100-130 miles a day on 6 visits. I am in a rural

  10. Am I the only HH nurse paid hourly?

    karmil replied to Eleven011's topic in Home Health

    We get paid by the hour, too. We see up to 6 pt daily and have hours of paperwork because our boss is determined to have no defisencies with the State. it works. I am prn but usually will work 30+...

  11. Advice for a new Home Health Nurse

    karmil replied to BusyRN&Mom's topic in Home Health

    I started HH/H 1.5 yrs ago and LOVE IT!!! It is the BEST job I ever had and I work with the most caring, dynamic brain children (my fellow HH Nurses) who nurtured me along after being out of nursing...

  12. My 9 year old patient was raped and required surgery

    karmil replied to ssouthernyankee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is why I am an advocate of Life without parole for child rapist or the death penalty. I have seen what sexually abused children end up dealing with. I saw a mother of 8 KNOW her husband was...

  13. Orientation Day LPN to RN

    karmil replied to 99percentangel's topic in General Nursing

    Best Wishes!! I am 52 and wouldn't attempt to pull this off... however my desire is to be buried with RN behnd my name on my headstone. Karmil

  14. Christmas Babies

    karmil replied to jodyangel's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I gave birth to a set of twins Christmas Eve, 1989. I remember on the way to the OR, asking the staff if they had been to the Hospital Christmas Party (I didn't want THEM operating on ME! LOL!) ....

  15. Nursing caps required at your job?

    karmil replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    Trivia: My daughter lives in South Africa and tells me the Nurses (called "Sisters") still wear white uniforms and caps. They work hard to become nurses, but I think they might be a combo maid/aide....

  16. Do you/ did you have a Nurses Cap? Pin?

    karmil replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked my ASS OFF for that cap. I cried the day I tossed it in the drawer and have somehow never missed it since. BUT I must tell you that patients I talk to liked when they could ID NURSES by...

  17. RNs- Mostly first born? Alcoholic fathers?

    karmil replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am 1st Born LPN with alcoholic mother. Yea, how to survive a mad women is RIGHT ON. I learned to pray through the horrors of verbal threats of death and terror of nights. I was 22 when I became a...

  18. What's the worst weather you've gone out in?

    karmil replied to nurseby07's topic in Home Health

    PS. Last year I was in Rural Missouri where snow drifted driveways can be 1/2 mile long. The Toyota got stuck and I had to walk in... an old lady carrying that CPU and supplies is NOT FUN through...

  19. What's the worst weather you've gone out in?

    karmil replied to nurseby07's topic in Home Health

    Last Spring I drove my Toyota Corolla through flood waters over a bridge becasue a pt needed critical bloodwork and was land locked in from the water. I made it TWICE, but about got fired. LOL! Sad...

  20. I Contracted HIV

    karmil replied to sarahwv's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to give you HOPE! A Pastor I knew 25 years ago had gotten HIV from Tx for hemophilia in the 80's. His brother got it too, same way. The Pastor had just married when they found out. They were...

  21. Blood draws for LPN?

    karmil replied to LynninOhio's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I am an MO LPN and do blood draws all the time as a Home Health Nurse. No big deal