Suninmyheart

"Don't Believe Everything You Think".

I am nervous that you have to ask this question.

I make $65 per routine visit, $110 for an admission and $50 an hour for misc. I live in San Diego.

Despite the experience your wife has, moving to another country and adapting can be difficult. Certain working environments can be very toxic, especially in healthcare. Support her by letting her know you are there for her. Perhaps encourage her to s...

Pros: Being able to get to know my patients and their families. Not just a 12 hr shift with hospital patients being admitted and discharged daily. Providing more holistic care. Feeling like I make more of a difference. Flexibility, bei...

San Diego $65 for routine RN visits, $100 for SOC, ROC, $50 an hour for office, meetings etc. I am per diem. No benefits or perks. .40 a mile. I negotiated strong when I first got hired.

My biggest time saver is I use voice dictation for the narrative parts of my documentation on my ipad or iphone in between visits.

I could not refuse providing care to my patient whose home is infested. In hospice, because I have been willing to just deal with it, was able to get a patient out of truly deplorable conditions and into a safe clean place where she was able to die i...

Live in San Diego. SOC $100 RV $65 .40 cents a mile Lots of drive time. It often takes me 30-45 minutes of driving between patients. This drains my average pay. I average about 30 an hour. Not good for SoCal.

I enter my clinical data during the visit - things like vitals, appetite, heart, lungs etc. Our software is online so I often use my iphone to enter the data right into the chart. Then I dictate the narrative into my phone right after the visit or en...

Makes me want to move to Sacramento. I live in SD and have been making 72K a year in non-profit Hospice which equals about 38 an hour.

In hospice I tried to create a flow to the actual visit and assessment to match how the assessment charting was set up. But of course that would not always work because visits with patients are unique and certainly not cookie-cutter. Most importantly...

Thank you everyone. I have made a list of the many resources here and am excited to get started reading. I went into nursing with Hospice as a main interest and now after 2.5 years of acute care experience I have just been offered a job with an amazi...

Doesn't really matter on paper but personally I wonder if some community colleges get poorer clinical opportunites? Academically my school was rigorous but the clinicals were lame and I did not feel very prepared clinically compared to some other nu...

I am so excited. I have an interview with a wonderful Hospice Agency in two days. I now have 2 1/2 years experience on a cardiac progressive care unit in a major hospital and I am ready to make a move toward where my heart and passion really lie. I ...

Tele/Cardiac is a great specialty. I love it and began my nursing career in tele also. Really diggin in and learning about all the cardiac meds is a good start. Plus all the electrolytes and lab level considerations. Everyday in tele offers learning ...

Last week we had a code where the patient collapsed while transferring to the bedside commode. He was on the floor all tangled up in his legs with massive amounts of poop and pee all around him. I immediately ran around the room grabbing blankets and...

What great stories! I LOVE it when I get funny, kind old men at the hospital. There are such joys in nursing. Thanks for posting. Lisa - Sun

tee hee I actually said to a pt once "now tonight is NOT going to be a repeat of last night. If you want a snack let me know now because I am only going to the kitchen for you ONCE. And your pain med is scheduled to be given every 2 hours and that ...

Thanks Angie for such wonderful inspiration. Well said.

I had 5 patients last night though not all at the same time. We have a limited ratio in California of 1:4. So here's my night. I was floated to another cardiac PCU. It was my very first time floating but I have been around for a year and a half and I...

Actually it was 3 unstable patients. 2 were RVR afib with one acute resp distr and the other was neuro with unstable sinus tach>150. Thank you so much for your support. I really don't get all the confusion about codes vs RR. In an ideal world can ...

I had the doc on the phone while she went down to 40. It all happened within several minutes.

Hi breeze, RT took 10 minutes to get there. They actually passed the phone around deciding who HAD to come to our unit. When the room was filled up with 3 RT and some ICU nurses it turned out both teams had responded and weren't sure what "jurisdicti...

Literally - a round hat with ruffles all the way around and surrounded by a ribbon with a bow. Like I would imagine Florence N. to wear. Has anyone ever seen this or work where it is required? I was offered the job but am literally turning it down be...