DesertwindRN

DesertwindRN ADN, RN

NICU, PICU, Peds, Pediatraic Home Care, Infusion

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  1. New to HH/ Rant/ Advice

    DesertwindRN replied to aksti1018's topic in Home Health

    Go to mirror and practice saying

  2. Does your pt/pts family love you like “family?”

    DesertwindRN replied to dholly2015's topic in Private Duty

    Strongly recommend that you give notice to your agency of your plan to change client care and ask that they not share this with your current client until you are off this case. I also agree that it...

  3. CPR Training Online

    DesertwindRN replied to yourstrulynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Check with your employer, most will not accept online CPR certification, but a few will accept this form of

  4. Documentation

    DesertwindRN replied to LovingLife123's topic in General Nursing

    “just document a note saying patient is alive”——too funny! Thanks, I needed a good laugh-out

  5. Documentation

    DesertwindRN replied to LovingLife123's topic in General Nursing

    Hugs to you. I really understand. I had an image of people coming out from hiding with their cameras and putting their arms around me, laughing, and saying “we were just kidding”, after a...

  6. Pros, Cons, Salary In Agency Nursing

    DesertwindRN replied to Meriwhen's topic in Agency Nurses

    No orientation, they have always been in a crunch and paying agency rates——————-they don’t invite you to the party unless they are extremely busy and short staffed. Travel nursing is...

  7. Clinical

    DesertwindRN replied to nursingstudent501235's topic in General Students

    FIRST day of clinicals. So sorry you had such a miserable day. I would not go out of my way to interact with this instructor in anyway except when required. Take slow deep breaths and shake it off....

  8. No more lifting

    DesertwindRN replied to Mon2be's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I do not know what experience or how many years you have been working as a nurse but at this time I do not lift anything heavier then an IV catheter. We have many choices and I encourage you to...

  9. I HATE nursing school. Now what?

    DesertwindRN replied to namaB's topic in General Students

    Just study, take tests, check off weeks, hours left until the nightmare is over. You have received great advice already. Don’t get involved in personality issues with nutsey, unstable instructors....

  10. Refusing a case in home care

    DesertwindRN replied to Katesp91's topic in Private Duty

    I suggest you find another company and perhaps a third. This gives you more choices. Maxim, in my experience, behaves just as you described. The whole purpose of the “meet and greet” is for...

  11. Home Infusion Questions

    DesertwindRN replied to KSNURSE08's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    RUN. Sorry, you may have a good experience if the staffing is appropriate at that particular facility. Great orientation. Treatment just awful with demands for outrageous hours. Many home care and...

  12. Anyone had experience with Dependable Nurses of Phoenix?

    DesertwindRN posted a topic in Home Health

    :down:Want to share my experience with this company and save anyone else a miserable experience. I have never in twenty years had such an awful encounter. They have a total lack of respect for...

  13. Milage, Az HH CM

    DesertwindRN posted a topic in Home Health

    I need to know if the HH companies are no longer offering milage here in the state of Arizona or if it's just this one company that I am interviewing with. This is a PRN position with expected twenty...

  14. Milage, Az HH CM

    DesertwindRN replied to DesertwindRN's topic in Home Health

    That is twenty miles EACH visit that is not counted before they pay milage. I have worked HH as a CM before and know that you end up working sixty or more hours and get paid for forty------never...

  15. Retirement from Nursing to Employment of Another Type

    DesertwindRN replied to Dangerous's topic in Retired Nurses

    WOW-------if I had not happened onto this site I would have "lost" it. I have "always" been hired after placing my application, sometimes within minutes. Not so today. For the past YEAR I have not...

  16. I'm trying nursing, but I'm hardheaded..will I last?

    DesertwindRN replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Nursing

    This is someone pulling your

  17. Interview process at local hospitals

    DesertwindRN replied to Lizzyru's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Usually takes more then ten days for HR to get all the references and Hx back. Do not hesitate to call HR and ask when you will receive information regarding your interview. They will tell you what...

  18. forced overtime??

    DesertwindRN replied to behindthedoor's topic in Home Health

    Forced overtime is HH case management. No union is a great deal for these agencies. We give them our time and if you figure out your hourly pay with the hours you REALLY are working you will vomit....

  19. Anyone try renewing their CPR online?

    DesertwindRN replied to RunnerNurse09's topic in General Nursing

    Many companies will not accept cert done online. You need to check with your

  20. Homebound guidelines

    DesertwindRN replied to cny4rn's topic in Home Health

    Good for you OP. This is typical fraud and is happening as we write. This is a typical patient found often in HH agencies and are often seen parimarily by LPNs and have frequent changes in case...

  21. New HH Gig.. Semi unsure...

    DesertwindRN replied to raebabelvn's topic in Home Health

    This is typical HH. You are expected to have experience and if you do have experience you do not need much orientation as these are stable home care patients and if they are not then they belong in...

  22. Being direct with co-workers, aides, sitting at the desk, ect...advice please

    DesertwindRN replied to beeble's topic in General Nursing

    My heart goes out to you. Toxic unit. Been there. Concentrate only on the patients under your care. This is hard but the only way to survive. At the end of the day ask yourself what kind of nurse...

  23. Unclogging a g-tube

    DesertwindRN replied to KatieNoelLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, you work with doctors who know how much to flush a G-tube and the care of a G-tube!

  24. Job Prospects in Phoenix

    DesertwindRN replied to malcantar's topic in General Nursing

    Is just shocking how different things are now. In 2006 it was just great. Az is hit just like other places. But, you know, there are jobs. In the past you could just pick your area and shift not so...

  25. Scheduled to work called out due to snow--can I be fired?

    DesertwindRN replied to Wsmith16's topic in General Nursing

    Giggle---------------That teacher is without a clue. All kinds of people with all kinds of mood disorders--------good, bad, grumpy, etc work for law enforcement. My first year as a RN in IOWA on a...