KittyLovinRN

I always think this too!! Have to make my brain do a double take :-)

Same thing with home care. Patients don't get the number of visits they were told they'd get that week. I'm the one who gets blamed even though I don't make the visit schedule but the office makes no effort to get in contact to explain missed visits....

I worked with lung transplants out of nursing school for 18 months then went to an ICU stepdown for two years. I knew I needed out of the hospital. I found home care nursing and have never loved a job so much. So basically three jobs and 3.5 years t...

P.S. If it's been 30 days since the actual surgery (i.e. if the patient went to rehab for long period of time after hospital) then we're told to put "New Epith"...I guess a 30 day old incision (WNL) is then considered healed.

Our office requests the same documentation for knees/hips/surgical incisions ... EVERYTHING at a SOC is considered non-healing. Why are you uncomfortable with this? It's just baseline documentation. We're given the same rationale...need to see som...

Our charting (all computerized) is to be locked down and transmitted by midnight after the visit was performed. Granted there are times where we slack and do it the next day but it is the expectation that it's done by midnight.

Hi all! I'm a home care nurse in a neighboring community from where I live. Turns out one of my patient's is the brother of my MIL neighbor, who both live down the street from me. The sister figured it out when she saw my name on the patient's folder...

For the short period of time we used them (they showed no significant improvement in our CLAB rates) we only put them on the PICC/Subclavian/Port caps, I never saw them used on the actual IV tubing but that was just what I saw.

I can assure you I do not have psych issues. I can also nearly guarantee that physician has never had such severe pain where you'd be okay with someone hitting you over the head with a brick to knock you out. Nobody should be judging anybody's pain, ...

Forgive me if this has already been talked about but I did a brief search and could not find anything I was looking for. What brand of sneakers do you wear? I've never worn through shoes like I do with this job!

I'll break the streak I started :) When I was still working in the hospital we had a woman who's son was totally creepy. Only child and just totally creepy with how he behaved around his mother. She was very, very ill/late disease state and he just...

Wow....

While I agree with 99% of the complaints here I have to say some pain truly IS off the charts. Kidney stone pain. I've said 12/10 more than once to get my point across. Also has an ER physician question my pain because I didn't look in pain. At that...

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Never looked back the year I've been in home care and never will. But it's okay that you don't like it, not every section is your niche, good luck with your re-entry! Sent from my iPhone using allnurses.com

I've been doing home health for a little over a year and taken three weeks off. If you do some prep work it's a breeze taking the time off as long as your agency is well staffed. I'm lucky to work for one that has part time, casual RNs and LPNs. Don'...

Medicare.gov Look in home care section to review agencies. Ask to shadow a nurse after your interview, ask the nurse what they do and don't like about the job. Sent from my iPhone using allnurses.com

Wow I feel very fortunate with my company. We do five 8 hour days w some weekends but I'm never in the field the full 8 hours, I'm paid salary up to my 6 patient/productivity points and any extra is paid at a different per visit rate. Unfortunatel...

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Wanted to get some thoughts on inner city nurses carrying a concealed weapon? My husband is a city policeman who's dealt with his share of undesirables in the same neighborhoods I venture into and is pushing for me to start carrying a gun. Are there...

I've done it NUMEROUS times, I had a patient in home care who's wife I never actually had the opportunity to meet, his sister was staying with him. The night his wife arrived, he died unexpectedly. I was devastated as I couldn't figure out WHY and ...

I'm work in home health, I've stopped at the pharmacy on more than one occasion to pick up prescriptions for a patient who was home bound or during bad weather, I work in a busy urban area so getting to the pharmacy is quite literally on my way to th...

That "Thank you" goes MILES for me as well. It really keeps you going for another couple of weeks/months until you genuinely hear it again :) Coming to home care has really increased the frequency though which is nice! Glad you had a good shift!

Hubby is a police officer, I asked his opinion. It COULD become a work comp issue if she's not wearing the vest. The vest is designed to stop bullets, she could easily return to work after an incident if she's wearing the vest...not so if she's not ...