lioneliz

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

   lioneliz replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   Funny thing happened today...I was just wrapping up a visit (pt assessment caregive teaching wound care & dressing for a patient with a tunneling abdominal wound) when she told me that her...

2. What are some of the strangest situations you have gotten into in home health

   lioneliz replied to lioneliz's topic in Home Health

   Hey these are great stories! It is nice to know someone out there understands and has been through some of the same situations, (and some I hope I never experience. Keep em

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

   lioneliz replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   This was not really a typical event in a typical day in HH, but I just had to vent a little. A man came by the office the other day and asked about hiring someone to help bathe his mother. He told me...

4. Worn Thin From the Paperwork

   lioneliz replied to nightingale's topic in Home Health

   i guess, overall, i am dissapointed in myself; the last three intakes that i took starting 3-22-04 are not complete yet... i hope to do the 485's this afternoon. do the nurses usually do the 485's...

5. What are some of the strangest situations you have gotten into in home health

   lioneliz posted a topic in Home Health

   What are some of the strangest wildest kookiest ect. situations you have found yourself in in the home health setting. I would love to hear your stories. I know in nursing school I would have never...

6. The Business of Home Health

   lioneliz replied to erroridiot's topic in Home Health

   All patients (home health patients or otherwise) have the RIGHT to participate in planning thier care and to accecpt or refuse care. They have this right regardless of how much it inconvenices the...

7. Problems at Home.....

   lioneliz replied to lvn2004's topic in General Nursing

   Yes school is stressful. Yes school leaves you tired and irritable (that goes for your mate and children also). Yes this will pass. As for your mariage???? I don't know. I hope you guys make it work!...

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

   lioneliz replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   Just another typical day in home health. I drove 20 miles to my first patient, a crabby old gent with CAD A-fib S/P 3 vessel CABG has had numerous med changes recently. Called his home before I left...

9. patient lingo...

   lioneliz replied to athomas91's topic in Emergency

   A nurse I used to work with had hand written a list of S&S for a pt's dtr-caregiver to report to the home health nurse. She left it in the home for the dtr to read as she wasn't there at the time....

10. RN Difference

    lioneliz replied to aznksswt517's topic in General Nursing

    A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet or so the saying goes. The same goes for RN's. Diploma programs were generally run by hospitals, and had a large amount of hands on nursing...

11. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    lioneliz replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    If you are a tottering octogenerian, and weigh 89 pounds do not open your storm door if the wind is gusting 50 to 60 miles/hr...you will fall down and go boom. Also if you are an octogenerian (don't...

12. Am I Stupid Or What?

    lioneliz replied to lioneliz's topic in Home Health

    There aren't any agencies in our town, but there are other agencies with service areas that overlap into ours, one in particular, a rather large one, is definitely in compitition for patients in any...

13. Patients and medical terminology....What the heck?!?!

    lioneliz replied to Big Bab's's topic in General Nursing

    Here are a few I have heard: * I am nearly blind, you know I have that imaculate degeneration. *My baby's nose is constipated. * I didn't take may latex today. (meaning lasix) * What do ya mean I have...

14. Am I Stupid Or What?

    lioneliz posted a topic in Home Health

    Am I stupid or what? I keep thinking that the "powers that be" over the agency I work with will someday wake up and take an intrest in their home health agency (a small hospital based agency that...

15. Just a fun thread - Cleanest bathrooms on the road?

    lioneliz replied to lyv33's topic in Home Health

    you can usually count on the county court house and banks to have clean restrooms...there are no McDonalds etc. in the small towns i go