westieluv

westieluv

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  1. My First Night Shift in a Long Time...

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all of you. Right now it is 3:30 am and I am up typing this, lol, so hopefully I will be able to sleep later today. I am going to take a large travel mug of black coffee to work with me...

  2. My First Night Shift in a Long Time...

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks so much for the tips! I will apply them tomorrow night and in the

  3. Rinse back amount

    westieluv replied to ChicagoRN84's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    When I was employed by Fresenius recently, I was taught 500 ml total for prime and rinse

  4. Help for the new hospice nurse please

    westieluv replied to LovelyLu's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well, I understand it to work like this: If a patient lives in a LTC and is not eligible for Medicaid (which pays their room and board regardless of if they are on hospice services or not) Medicare...

  5. Would You Be Willing to do This?

    westieluv posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I work for one of the "Big Two" dialysis companies as an acute inpatient dialysis nurse. For those of you not familiar with this, my job is to provide dialysis treatments to patients who are acutely...

  6. Is Hospice nursing "easier"?

    westieluv replied to mgrenwic's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I've done both inpatient hospice and home hospice nursing. Inpatient is easier in the sense that it is much like working LTC only without the ridiculous med passes and everyone is at the end stage of...

  7. Nurses Being Made to Tech?

    westieluv posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Does your clinic force nurses to work as techs when you are short staffed? I'm not talking about putting a patient on or taking one off once in a while, that's no big deal, but actually scheduling...

  8. Solutions for Acutes?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    This is exactly why I had to get out. Acutely ill patients who require dialysis are way too fragile for a nurse who has been working for 14+ hours to be responsible for, and I also got tired of...

  9. How do you staff your Fresenius?

    westieluv replied to sammyjo24's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    We did not have a charge nurse to cover those other duties, although there were four chairs in a row, meaning the the RN had four of her own and four more to oversee, and then yep, all of the other...

  10. Doing away with Scrubs

    westieluv replied to Kcwestportboy's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I can remember when I was an after hours on-call hospice nurse working for a company where we had to wear business casual, even in the middle of the night. How many times did I do post-mortem care,...

  11. dialysis nursing...i want to run fast and far away

    westieluv replied to RN yogi's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    That's all you can do. I wish you well and I'm glad you were able to leave a situation that was making you so

  12. How do you staff your Fresenius?

    westieluv replied to sammyjo24's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    The chronic FMC unit where I worked was also starting to go to the model where the nurse takes a row of patients for herself and is still responsible for another row. I didn't get that. I mean, a tech...

  13. Burned Out and Have an Interview at Dillard's This Week...

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Nursing Career

    I don't know how that works, but i once asked if it would be possible for me to get hired as a unit clerk and was told that I couldn't because as a licensed RN, I had the obligation to fulfill my...

  14. Burned Out and Have an Interview at Dillard's This Week...

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Nursing Career

    Thanks, all. My interview is tomorrow, so I guess I'll see what they have to say. Do you think they'd let me wear scrubs to work? That's one thing I will miss about nursing if I do decide to try...

  15. Help! So Depressed...

    westieluv posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    I am almost fifty years old and I have never been depressed in my life. However, tonight as I sit typing this, I feel like I'm trapped in a tiny black box and there's no hope of getting out. I have...

  16. If you accept a job, stay at least a year

    westieluv replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    No new grad here. I've been an RN for over 24 years. I recently accepted a position with a home health/hospice company that lied to me in the interview so that I would accept the salaried position....

  17. dialysis nursing...i want to run fast and far away

    westieluv replied to RN yogi's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    That's a good point, because in my experience, while I avoid at all costs that tired, judgmental cliche' that, "They did it to themselves", it does seem that the overall unhealthiness of the American...

  18. Cut Throat Competition Makes Me Sick

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well, here is a sample conversation from our office this past week: Marketer: "Okay, so go out and do the evaluation today, and then we can schedule the admission for this evening or first thing...

  19. Cut Throat Competition Makes Me Sick

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hahahahahaha...yeah...NO!

  20. Cut Throat Competition Makes Me Sick

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    A lot of hospice nurses are under great pressure to find a way to recert a patient, even if they don't meet criteria. So, somehow they find SOMETHING that qualifies them, even if they have to...

  21. Cut Throat Competition Makes Me Sick

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I have seen marketers and management personnel in my company dig into a patient's medical record and if they don't have most of the obvious indicators in eligibility, they will twist words and...

  22. Is this legal? Hospice RN required to do Home Health visits

    westieluv replied to deblowe52's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well, I work for the same kind of company that the OP works for (in fact, it sounds like she could very well work for my company). I wonder if anyone has considered that OASIS is not used in hospice...

  23. How should I explain to a hospital I want my job back

    westieluv replied to Nurse J1112's topic in Nursing Career

    Agreed. He is going to feel and look like a fool for putting in a good word for someone who got fired for bad behavior. If I were him and I found out that you asked for a recommendation after you had...

  24. How should I explain to a hospital I want my job back

    westieluv replied to Nurse J1112's topic in Nursing Career

    Well, even if the nephrologist friend spoke to someone who is going to call you, not knowing that you were terminated from their facility earlier this year, wouldn't you still have to fill out an...

  25. Ebola patient is on dialysis

    westieluv replied to NurseRies's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Even though I no longer do dialysis treatments, I think I can take a stab at this: Because as much as we may love nursing and love caring for our patients, we love our families more. At the end of the...