HeadingWest

HeadingWest has 3 years experience and specializes in Home Health, Med-Surg, Telemetry.

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1. ETOH withdrawal, CIWA, and transfer to the ICU.

   HeadingWest replied to HeadingWest's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Except that I still had to document her last bit of IV intake, my communication with the attending, and write a note regarding transfer/report which included reviewing her CIWA scores to ensure an...

2. ETOH withdrawal, CIWA, and transfer to the ICU.

   HeadingWest posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

   I work on a med-surg/tele floor that gets a fair number of ETOH withdrawal patients. Today I took care of a woman that had been sober 9 months before starting a 2 week bender prior to admission. She...

3. New Grad - Is HH nursing difficult to get out of?

   HeadingWest replied to Jazzyjazz's topic in Home Health

   I'm curious which bedside skills you are worried about losing? I didn't do any trach care (no vents at my agency) or any NG placement/removal in home health, but I got to use pretty much everything...

4. Work Cell?

   HeadingWest replied to _NaturallyTee_'s topic in Home Health

   I can also vouch for google voice. I was given a monthly stipend for my cell phone and just set up google voice on my android. My google voice number was for everything work related which kept my...

5. Medication Storage/tracking

   HeadingWest posted a topic in Developmental Disabilities

   I just started as the nurse for a small DD agency (for both residential and day program). We have 60ish people coming to day program M-F and 35 in residential with a good deal of overlap between the...

6. Lets talk about $$$

   HeadingWest replied to russki1313's topic in Home Health

   1. Denver Metro 2. $23.50/hr for meetings, $47 for regular visits, $57 for evals/recerts/resumptions/agency discharge, $85 for opens, $2/hr on call, $0.48/mile minus to/from first/last visit 3. No...

7. Case manager deciding when to discharge rather than the RN seeing the patient?

   HeadingWest replied to HeadingWest's topic in Home Health

   I agree, and that is what am doing now. I was told specifically by my case manager that I needed to add visits for med management and that is what I had an issue with. I'm still learning how...

8. Case manager deciding when to discharge rather than the RN seeing the patient?

   HeadingWest posted a topic in Home Health

   I recently switched agencies, and I am going on two months at the new one. Initially everything about the new agency was better, but cracks are starting to appear. I was added on to take care of 3...

9. The love of home health

   HeadingWest replied to Kcorder4's topic in Home Health

   If you don't mind me jumping into the conversation I would be happy to answer some questions. I'm new ADN grad working in home health. Home health isn't my preferred specialty, but the agency I work...

10. When it rains, it pours.

    HeadingWest replied to HeadingWest's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks for the advice. It would be near impossible to schedule both jobs at the same time. The VA jobs are supposed to be a mix of 8's and 12's, and the home health is however I schedule visits along...

11. When it rains, it pours.

    HeadingWest posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I graduated in May of this year, but was unable to take boards for a few months since I was relocating across the country. I took (and passed) boards in August and have been licensed for about 2...

12. Are you a new grad?

    HeadingWest posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Is anyone else running into this question when applying for jobs? Every hospital in my area seems to have a different definition of what a constitutes a new grad. I've run into anything from 6-18...

13. Confused on EMT-B?????

    HeadingWest replied to proudpops's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I am an EMT-B for a private company in the Western burbs. Our basics start out around $9/hr. We put up ambulances for 10, 12, 13, and 24 hour shifts. On a BLS rig you can expect to do lots of...