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What are your primary skills you use when you work with hospice patient? I was asked from my agency if I want to work for a hospice patient (private duty night shift). When I asked to my agency if I can have a brief orientation (to see the patient be...

Does/Can an RN (working at dermatologist's office, aesthetic clinic etc.) give anesthetics before procedures such as skin biopsy, laser surgery, botox, etc.)? If so, what anesthetic medications are most frequently used? Is IV inserted just in case at...

i had an interview at a dermatology clinic. according to the doctor at the office, he wants to hire ma but also he wants somebody who can give anesthetic injections for a biopsy and that's why he is looking for an rn. the pay is $13/hour. he said th...

I have been working for this SNF as a per-diem RN for about a little more than a year. This SNF schedule me to work only once in 1-2 months, I have worked there only several times so far even though I was hired last year. For example, in this year, I...

i was assigned this private duty case (night shift) ---the patient is a 5 months baby. my company said that the case is lvn case and pays only at lvn rate. i am an rn but other patient's houses are far from my house, i just vaguely accepted the case....

Are they different because travel nurses go to a hospital at other state but local per-diem nurses go to a hospital more close to their area? Or does the main difference have to do with a time period? Such as 12 weeks for travel nursing vs. longer pe...

i think so too, probably nobody wants to go to the house. as i saw the medical record when i went to the house last time, previously several lvn had worked with the patient, but after 2- 4 days every lvn stopped visiting the house. last week nobody w...

regarding a private duty's case...., my agency tells me a patient's address and shift & days of a week i work and asks if i can do the case. they don't give me any other information such as age of the patient, what kind of diagnosis the patient h...

I have been sorting for this home health company for more than 6months as per-dime. But because i wanted more shifts I recently applied for several other places. I got a phone call from one place. They said they want to interview me, but they also ne...

i used to work night shift at a few skilled nursing facilities. some of the patients were hospice patients. when the hospice patients passed away i called their physician, families and hospice nurses to let them know. i have never seen hospice nurses...

thank you caliotter3 for your response. i agree. i want my prospective employer to just call my current employer to do an employment reference over the phone.…j i called my current employer (owner) again this morning because the interview is schedul...

i had an interview with 2 homehealth agency (a & b) in so ca area. both of them use paper documentation. a agency said that soc $75 per visit and rn follow-up visit $55 per visit. but a recruiter at the hr said that because they (a company) hav...

i had an interview with this home health company a couple of months ago but i haven't been given any orientation so far. they suddenly called today and asked me if i could do home safety assessment for the patient who was just discharged from a hos...

thank you caliotter3 and susan317 for the information!!! now i understand that home safety assessment should include physical assessment (temp, bp, lung sound etc.), adls assessment, environmental assessment, medical history, etc. (kind of comprehens...

i have been working for one agency as a per-diem for the past several months after i quit my previous full time job. this agency pays per visit. so far they have given me cases between 4 visits per month (earn less than $200 a month) and 15 visits pe...

i had an interview with this home health agency about 2 weeks ago. they called me yesterday and said that they have trouble getting references from my past hospitals that i worked for. they said that they have faxed a reference request form (?) to th...

Does your company reimburse you for the expenses? Or nurses are supposed to prepare all suppllies on their own?

the w2 form that the agency wants me to send is 2007’s and 2006’s, about several years ago’s:). after i quit these hospitals i have worked for a few different places until now. when i was hired by these newer places i have never been asked to submit ...

thank you, caliotter3, justbeachynurse as a matter of fact, for some reason, i am also kind of reluctant to submit w2 forms & pay stubs to them because i don’t know if they can really hire me yet. and the agency is located very far from my area. ...

3~5 agencies! wow, i am encouraged to work for more agencies!

1. when i went to an interview the interviewer emphasized that "in our home health company, nurses open a case." is there somebody who opens a case other than a nurse at other home health companies? 2. the interviewer said that "we don'...

thank you susan317, your response helped me a lot!! i have one more question. the company i went to interview for prn is located very far from my apartment (about 3 hours) but they said that they occasionally have some patients close to my place. i a...

have you ever needed to refuse to take a certain patient because you cannot drive to the patient's home? i am ok with driving far but i have extreme difficulty driving on mountain roads with narrow paths and steep hills. narrow roads are sometimes no...

the doctor hires only 2 people ---his receptionist and an rn who he wants to pay as though the rn were an ma who can give an anesthetic injection. currently there is an rn working in his office who will quit soon and the doctor wants a replacement. ...