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I'm on a roll today! loL! Anyways, My school had us do HESI exams during every semester and then one big exit exam at the end. They say if you score higher than 850 on HESI you have a good chance of passing the NCLEX. I always did really well on the ...

I hope somebody can give me some advice. I have 2 years of experience on a med/surg/tele floor and now have 2 years of experience in home healthcare. I have always had an interest in postpartum/mother-baby nursing. I just got into medical because tha...

Thanks everyone for your helpful advice! I do appreciate it!

YES! I have sent so many patients to the ER only of them to be admitted to the ICU. Very sick. I could not have done home health without my med/surg experience. You just have to have that nursing knowledge that only experience can give you.

So I thought I'd revive this thread again. I'm thinking of leaving my home health job. I've been doing it for almost 2 years now. Have really loved home health, but the charting, the never being "off" work feeling, I feel like I'm working so much tha...

I have been working as an RN case manager in home health for almost two years now. I'll preface this by saying I love almost everything about this job. Except for......the hours I spend on charting!! I know this is the unfortunate part of home health...

I'm very happy to be a nurse. Have I had times that I felt like I might have made the wrong decision? Yes. Have I experienced burn out? Yes. Have I been so frustrated with healthcare admin in the hospital that makes being a nurse so hard sometimes? Y...

Boy were you wrong! I went from a very hectic telemetry floor to home health care last September. Upon leaving my hospital job, I received comments that I would be bored or would lose my skills in home health care. Obviously, these comments were from...

I'm leaving my hospital job where my insurance is very good and very cheap. I only pay $120 biweekly for the best plan and for myself and my kids. I'm going to a home health company and just got a copy of the benefits package. The employee portion of...

Hi All, I am about to be starting a position as a Case Manager RN with a home health agency. I have two years of acute care experience in a hospital. I'm very interested in case management and home health care, but may eventually want to get into cas...

Maybe you should take your own advise hun. :) I asked what the difference was between CM in HH and in the hospital. I didn't ask how easy or hard HH is or to be told to lighten up when I wasn't even offended and all you could add to this conversatio...

MomRN, would you mind sharing your cheat sheet? I'm just starting HH and the charting is all electronic, but I'm thinking it will still be difficult to go through all the documentation in the pts home and I'm worried about forgetting something. Thank...

Certain things burn if not diluted.

I dilute almost everything. It's just easier all around IMO and better for the pt too.

Do you think that due to the approaching insurance changes that case management and utilization review will be in more demand?

Thanks everyone for the helpful information and the positive outlook on case management. No this is not a home work assignment. I'm not in school presently. Just interested in what my future career opportunities may be. Thanks again everyone! :)

I knew exactly what you meant. I don't expect HH to be easy at all. Floor nursing wasn't easy either and if somebody made a comment like you did about it being an easy way to get started as a new nurse, I wouldn't take it as if working the floor was ...

I read a book, it was titled something like, test taking techniques for beginning nursing students. I felt that it helped to prepare me for the nclex style tests that I was taking once nursing school started.

Nursing is hard work. I do not regret becoming a nurse though. I have been a nurse for 2 years now on a medsurg/tele floor and it is hard and there are days that I wonder why I chose to do this. Those are on bad days. I've learned so much on the floo...

Glad to have read this article. I've been a nurse for two years and haven't carried insurance. But I'm about to purchase it. I asked around at work to other nurses if they had and none of them seemed to have an idea that we need it. One said only NP'...

Yes, I've seen it first hand. The 2 male nurses on my floor get more respect from pts, dr's, and their peers than female nurses. Most doctors talk to them as a peer, shake their hand, and talk to them in a different tone than I've received from the s...

New grad nurses in my area make about 18-19/hr, bsn's only make 50 cent more

As for not being aloud to interpret EKG's....maybe legally we can't "interpret and diagnose", but we are the ones who have to read the EKG and decide how to respond and also to notify the dr of the rhythm and/or use our ACLS and respond appropriately...

I work on a telemetry floor and the class was a requirement to do before working for 6 months and also before we were able to take the ACLS class that was also required to obtain within a year. But both of these were paid for by the hospital and put ...

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