Erclifton85

Hello, I have recently accepted a part-time position completing face to face encounters for a small Hospice; mostly rural visits. It isn't too many visits each month just a nice supplement to my income here and there- also I have worked for them as a...

Thanks for all of the responses. I appreciate the input. Now, to just finish school... Haha

I am currently in school working on my MSN and FNP, I have a pretty decent 3 month beard right now; planning to make it a 6 month beard soon. I am wondering if anyone else has a good beard and if it has presented any professional problems? So far as ...

I know this is kind of a strange one to recommend, but plumer's intravenous infusion therapy book is awesome, especially if you are administering through PICCs and such. I would also recommend it if you are ever interested in inserting PICC lines, it...

I started my nursing career in home health and home hospice over 2 years ago. I was hired as a new grad (I guess I interview well) and then ended up getting employee of the year my first year of work. I was involved primarily with seeing hospice pati...

Interesting! Thank you for that response, sounds like a busy week for sure.

I use medscape frequently and it has been a blessing.

I see. As long as the CXR is negative the TB will be considered latent... my patient got a mantoux that was positive, Dx with latent TB, 6 mos Rifampin, and now given the OK to start Imbrel. (I work home health, I don't have any experience with the b...

I don't know the answer, but it sounds like things are going great for you. Congrats!

I work Monday through Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM doing home health and hospice. I am on call 3 week nights a month and one 24 hour weekend day. Overtime is starting to be frowned upon so if I do have any they try to give me time off to compensate.

What an idiot. haha

It depends on the person how long it takes to be comfortable, some say 6 mos, some say a year...

I would tell them exactly what you told us above, inadequate training and no evaluation other than "you're fired" sounds pretty unfair and drastic.

Ohio is dead right now. You can probably get a home health position.

Why not? Why wouldn't hospitals care?

Latent TB is much different than active TB; Latent must be treated so it does not become active. Isoniazid or Rifampin are the treatment she was on. After treatment she should be fine and without TB although antibodies against TB still exist. I'm gue...

I wear 20 dollar wal-mart starter tennis shoes or converse chuck taylors... I'll pay for it in 10 years.

I run to de-stress. Also, I blow money sometimes... not a good thing but it works.

I would whistle blow, it is completely unreasonable and unacceptable to treat people that way. How do they keep employees?

You can find records wherever the shots were given, like the health department. Worst case scenerio just let them give them again then keep the record this time. This may sound stupid and excessive, but every job I get I always get the Hep B vac. bec...

You can always ask. Personally I would just suck it up and work as scheduled. They might view it as whiney asking to switch days this early on.

Does anyone know where I can get my 1 hours CEU pertaining to the law here in OH? I appreciate the help!

I would punch her in her mouth... oh wait... definitely write her up. Scratch my first thought.

Even though the job market is bad I still feel like my field is full of opportunities. You can always go advanced practice if you don't like other RN roles... or you can find a non-traditional job. There are more options in the nursing field than man...

I have been in home health for about a year and a half. I am reminded often that I am a male but it doesn't bother me. People usually talk about me being a guy when they say things like "all of the patient's love you men" or say that I didn't get a d...