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  1. Should I buy my own OASIS training?

    Hi. I'm wondering if I should buy my own OASIS training (online, probably) as a travel nurse relatively new to home health. My background: 11 years as a nurse, a few of those as travel nurse. For...
  2. Should I buy my own OASIS training?

    OK - you sold me! Just bought it. You're a good persuader! Ha, I think that the lady who taught my online OASIS training (Cindy Krafft) is one of the contributors or quoted people or something in...
  3. So I start my first home health job (travel nurse) next week...

    Oh, hi! Sorry for late reply! Anyway - my assignment went well enough! (I actually am in my last couple weeks of the same assignment - I re-upped twice, so I'll wind up working about 8 months total,...
  4. Should I buy my own OASIS training?

    Thanks very much, NrsKaren! I like your signature quote...I'm sending it to my sister right now! I've decided on rctclearn.net 10-part oasis course - about $500 at this time...
  5. Hi, there. I need help learning best (or just good!) technique for turning my patients in their beds, especially the trach/vent patients. Of course, it's just me (one-person turn) turning them....
  6. So I start my first home health job (travel nurse) next week...

    Hey, Poko, thank you! I hadn't thought about the car trunk organizer or the divided notebook. Sounds like things I'll be glad for!
  7. Interview for a faith based hospital; advice please!!!

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  8. Hi, there. I need help learning best (or just good!) technique for turning my patients in their beds, especially the trach/vent patients. Of course, it's just me (one-person turn) turning them....
  9. How NOT to suck at turning a Pt, esp. w/ trach/vent??

    Thanks, orion81...you took some time w that reply! That's helpful.
  10. How to do one-person turn for quadriplegic / trach/vent Pt?

    Thank you
  11. bariatric nursing a good job?

    I have an interview to work on a bariatric surgical floor (not the OR itself) on Thursday. I'd never considered bariatric - I'm trying to get back home to my home city, so I've been applying...
  12. Can I do this to help me insert a Foley?

    I have some trouble inserting Foley's in women by accidentally inserting it into the lady parts. I expect I'll get better with experience, but to help me, is it okay to put an empty 10-mL syringe in...
  13. New Atlanta Contract

    Jaw drop. 20K???? Did you just typo in a 0 in the 20K? Sign on for how long a
  14. New Atlanta Contract

    I live in Midtown Atlanta in a 100-year-old building, and I'm doing a travel nursing job 3 miles up the road at Piedmont Hospital. I'm sorry, I can't give you any advice on high-rises, or downtown....
  15. I hope so. The LTACH job would be easier on me, yes. I worked there last night, and was thinking about how much my peace-of-mind is
  16. Hi, there. I found out today that I may get "let go" from my ICU job, and I'm wondering how to best position myself to ask to go full-time at my prn LTAC job. Background: After 4 years of med-surg...
  17. Funny you should mention a lawyer, HarryTheCat! My roommate is a liberal New Jersey journalist, and he got pretty darn fired up (as he does about many workplace issues), and offered to have his...
  18. How To Properly Clean Your Stethoscope

    Hee hee. A wow is a cow, w/ a politically correct name. Anyway: workstation on wheels = wow; computer on wheels = cow. (Often spelled in all caps.) One of those computers w/ a little work/desk...
  19. How To Properly Clean Your Stethoscope

    Rather embarrassing to say, Hygiene QUeen, particularly to someone w/ your screen name and your cheery signature, but I don't think I've seen anyone at my hospital wash their stethoscope...and washing...
  20. How To Properly Clean Your Stethoscope

    Do you pay for those wipes personally, or does your hospital supply them? My hospital has "purple wipes" (I'm sure there's a name for them, but we just call them that because of the color of the lid...
  21. How To Properly Clean Your Stethoscope

    I just use the alcohol swabs. Sometimes I dump on a glug of alcohol gel from the dispensers that we use for hand hygiene. Plus, I just use disposable stethescopes (after multiple stethescopes that...
  22. Empty the foley they said...

    I had one guy who did that 2 nights in a row. During the day, he was oriented, but around 11pm was the witching hour. In the morning, he'd be all owl-eyed - "Wait, miss, you say I did
  23. Nursing: Art vs Science

    lol...
  24. Losing respect for nursing students

    I'm glad to have students w/ us. At my hospital, we're having last-semester ADN students. They're very polite, respectful, eager, earnest students; most of them are probably 20's or 30's in age,...
  25. Nursing: Art vs Science

    My managers have had a similar discussion with me. I guess they'd say that I'm good at the science...need to work on the art. Thanks for the article. That's good deductive thinking, by the way -...