Grasshopper11

The hospice I work for is Monday to Friday only for Case Managers with 4 weeks vacation. We have evening and weekend dedicated staffing.

Personally, I think we should just go salary with time and a half for overtime. Currently, we have to fill out logs for everything we do and turn them in to get paid.

I am a nurse for over 9 years and will be starting hospice nursing. I am hearing about nurses in Home Health going home and charting until all hours of the night. Is this the same in Hospice Nursing? I heard it was not because Hospice Nursing does...

I would like to know what Nurse Managers are thinking of doing to give Home Health RN's more downtime in the evening. Most of the RN's finish their 8 hour shift and then go home to document for 3 to 4 hours especially if they have starts of care. An...

Hi all! I am about to start home health soon. I see people documenting in the car, leaning on steering wheel, etc. There must be a more comfortable way, isn't there? Any tips and tricks? I have a SUV and was thinking of turning down 1/2 the back...

I work dayshift but I would love 11a-11p. Too bad you don't work where I work. We could "team up"!

I've done Med/surg, LTC, Rehab and now I am thinking of changing to Home Health. I just wanted to find out the pros and cons of this line of work.

Thank you. I could just imagine being in someone's home and looking like an idiot because I can't do something and I have no back up.

Did you ever have a situation or emergency in a home. You are by yourself so you can't call a "rapid response" or notify a charge nurse who is right there.

Where I work, we have a really nice supervisor/charge nurse that is older. She is ready to quit but unfortunately she has a mortgage to pay. The twenty-somethings bully her to death just because she is older. It has been reported to management but...

We have two new twenty-somethings that just graduated a few months ago from nursing school who are our supervisors, yes-they are supervisors of nurses who have been nurses 8-10 years. All they do is complain for a full 8 hours, not exaggerating. Th...

We have two new twenty-somethings that just graduated a few months ago from nursing school who are our supervisors, yes-they are supervisors of nurses who have been nurses 8-10 years. All they do is complain for a full 8 hours, not exaggerating. They...

I work with a lot of twenty-somethings that are absolutely wonderful. I want to hug them everytime I work with them. I just gave you their ages to give you their background of being tweinty-something and no previous job.

I would have shipped both out. Good decisions on your part. Better safe than sorry!

I actually like working in a place where all RN's wear one color and CNA's wear another. This way the staff and the patients know who is who. When I worked in a facility where anybody can wear anything, a patient told me that she was talking to "so...

Anyone out there apply tubigrips? How do you apply them? I have a group of fellow co-workers who state you have to look at the order as some are applied from above the knee to the ankle, some from calf to ankle, some from calf to toes. Another co-...

No matter where I work it is the same question....Why does management refuse to hire someone to help with admissions and discharges????? Management would rather see us pulled away from our current patients in order to complete an admission or discha...

No matter where I work it is the same question....Why does management refuse to hire someone to help with admissions and discharges????? Management would rather see us pulled away from our current patients in order to complete an admission or dischar...

If they hired an admissions/discharge nurse, we would not be doing overtime.....

No matter where I work it is the same question....Why does management refuse to hire someone to help with admissions and discharges????? Management would rather see us pulled away from our current patients in order to complete an admission or discha...

Our hospital just switched to the EPIC system. Anyone else using EPIC out there? What do you think?

I work as a bedside nurse in a Rehab facility with very busy admissions and discharges with higher acuity each year. Just had a holiday dinner with family. My sister is working at an assisted living facility busing tables and helping in the kitche...

I would never say to an auto mechanic "all you do is tighten a few bolts" so what do you do with the rest of your day. P.S. I am not saying that busing tables is not exhausting work. I am just saying that all of us in all occupations work hard and ...

I personally don't think it is an overreaction. This is just an example. Having people in general think and make comments to the effect that all we do is carry a little pill in a med cup and then wonder what we do with the rest of the day, doesn't...

You have to learn to say the word "NO". The more you help out, the more you are enabling the unit. We had a unit secretary that was knocking herself out by coming in extra shifts. Working nights and then coming in for days with no sleep. I told h...