DesertwindRN ADN, RN

Go to mirror and practice saying “no”.

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 would be in your interest to take yourself off this...

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

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

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 particular nightmare shift. We don’t get compensated enoug...

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 different and some orientation is provided along with metrology t...

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. I was so stressed out during clinicals with a n...

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 “shop around” until you find a good fit.

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. You are going into a wonderful profession, focus o...

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 both you and the client and in the case of peds pts, the...

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 Infusion companies take advantage of their nurses...

: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 nurses and why anyone would work for them is truly a pu...

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 visits which kind of makes the PRN part a questio...

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 will accept a salary position in nursing again. I lo...

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 even gotten an interview. And I wished I had not ...

This is someone pulling your leg.

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 they are waiting on. Good luck to you.

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. Sorry ----- We work it because we need the job an...

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

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 managers to keep them by the companies because they have...

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 the hospital. You are taking your lunch in the hom...

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 you were for your patients. Stay way from the nu...

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

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 today, but there are jobs. I love Arizona so I ...

I worked at a hospital like that. During orientation security told us how unsafe we were and even offered to sell a whistle and/or pepper spray to anyone with the price. Nice and accurate first impression. We finally got a petition and with all the...