meluhn

meluhn has 16 years experience and specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.

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1. Do you ever plan on leaving the bedside?

   meluhn replied to ajaxgirl's topic in General Nursing

   Soundofmusic, You put that so well, all management needs to read this. This is the problem with nursing everywhere. They have unrealistic expectations that we can never live up to because it is...

2. help! a confused RN

   meluhn replied to noski's topic in Home Health

   I started in home health almost a year ago. For me it has been a catch22. I love the flexibility,hate the hours and hours of paperwork that I bring home everyday and really hate the low pay. But,...

3. Jersey Shore Medical Center or Kimball Hospital

   meluhn replied to NJprettynewgrad_Rn's topic in New Jersey Nursing

   Congrats on landing a job in these tough times. I have worked for (and did my clinical at) both of the health systems that each of these hospitals are a part of. I generally found the health system...

4. Obtaining Urine Sample in the Home

   meluhn replied to LuLu2008's topic in Home Health

   Recently I tried to straight cath an obese woman for ua/c&s and was unable to. I just gave the live-in a sterile cup and a peri wipe especially for clean catches and told her to do her best and...

5. New Grad Home Health

   meluhn replied to kasendamiles86's topic in Home Health

   If you can tough it out for a year it will look better on your resume and you will def be prepared for home

6. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   meluhn replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   haha. it sounds stupid to me too but somewhere on one of these threads where the subject came up, someone proved that "orientate" was actually a legit word and not just someone pronouncing it

7. Nurse Indicted in Toms River Man's Death

   meluhn replied to meluhn's topic in New Jersey Nursing

   Me too. Im glad she got her license back but will she ever really want to work as a nurse again? I

8. How does hourly vs per visit work out?

   meluhn replied to newtress's topic in Home Health

   I am full time. I do 6 visits/day & I make a little over $200/day. The per diem RN, doing the same 6 visits would make $50/visit = $300/day. But, I get PTO and I get the same if I do 4 visits...

9. Wages after being in the field for a while

   meluhn replied to dinah77's topic in Home Health

   That is good for a new grad. Unfortunately, you will never get rich doing HHN (or any other kind of nsg) but it is my favorite kind of nursing so

10. How well do you get along with your coworkers?

    meluhn replied to sasha2lady's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Up until recently, I thought I had a stellar relationship with my coworkers but it seems that they are all a bunch of backstabbers after all. I am disappointed but I still need the job and so I carry...

11. What do patients say that irks you?

    meluhn replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Eeow, Does that happen often? I would have to jump off the table and slap him, or if I was the nurse, a knee to the groin would be in order. That is so

12. Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    meluhn replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Just a quick poop story... I was transfering a pt from toilet to wheelchair after they had a bm when my worst nightmare came true. They started to fall and I had no choice but to lower them to the...

13. Whats the worst that can happen?

    meluhn replied to melonbelly7's topic in Camp

    I did it one summer and the worst was one day a girl went into a severe asthma attack and had to take an ambulance ride to the hospital. The other major injury was a boy who broke his arm playing...

14. pre-nursing mom of 3 needs advice

    meluhn replied to Lgoodson614's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I did an LPN program full time when my 1st one was an infant. I dont recommend it. I started doing prereqs for RN/ADN program when my little guy was 3 and in preschool. I would run to class for the 3...

15. Need some feedback

    meluhn posted a topic in Home Health

    I just started in HH a few months ago and I am loving it. I just started case managing a case in which the pt is a 62 yo, lives alone in a 2nd story walk-up apartment and just had the whipple...