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I give up. What does SOA stand for?

FWIW, I have never thought of my job as a Hospice Nurse to be particularly sad.

You can start by turning off your "caps-lock".

I have been in Hospice for four years. I am lucky in that the company I work for has 2 dedicated on-call nurses. They cover ALL after hours work. Case Managers never have to take on-call.

My hospice is in the process of transitioning from its own proprietary software to HCHB. We are in our "couch visit" phase where we are entering all of our patient's data into HCHB. I still don't know what documenting on a visit looks like. For my co...

4 visits a day is the goal at the Hospice at which I work. But visits are weighted differently. Routine=1 Recert=2 admission =3.

Another small thing. When visiting a patient in a facility you are going to taker Vital Signs as part of your assessment. Offer the results of your vital signs to the nurse taking care of the patient. H/She may have a "list" of "to dos" which may inc...

At the Hospice at which I work, LPN's are not allowed to take call fro the exact reasons you state. I'm in Massachusetts.

In my three years as a RNCM, I have never had to start an iv or do phelbotmy.

The software that your company uses from EMR is going to drive what your plan of care is going to look like.

If you are thinking that Hospice Case Management will relieve you from "bedside" nursing, you are wrong.

I agree. There is not much information to be found on what end stage will look like. I had a patient with neurofirbromatosis Type2. This was a new disease to me. I went to the internet to search for what to expect at the end of life with this disease...

Just an FYI. You'll need some time as a Hospice Nurse prior to being eligible for sitting for the examination: 'To be eligible for the HPCC CHPN® Examination, an applicant must hold a current, unrestricted registered nurse license in the United Sta...

It sounds to me like your liasons are practicing Nursing without a license. Determination of Eligibility is a Nursing/Doctor decision, not an unlicensed liasons decision.

I work for a small office. 3 full time case managers with a census of around 40. We have 2 dedicated on call nurses. They each work one week on and one week off. They cover from 5pm to 8 am on weekdays and from Froday at 5 pm to Monday at 8 am. When ...

Why should the Original poster get a subsidy? She states she makes 90K. Subsidies are for people who need them.

5 admissions in one day!!!!!! Impossible.

I'm an RN Case Manager and I follow a number of patients at an assisted living facility who all have dementia. One was a 72 year old man with temporal- frontal lobe dementia with combative behaviors. Unfortunately he had a psychotic break and became ...

We're ordering Chinese, are you in?

Our "benzo" of choice for end of life palliation is Ativan Intensol (2mg/ml). No needles necessary. Optimal comfort.

Patient was "difficult to AROUSE".....DID YOU TRY HARD ENOUGH?....IT'S ROUSE

None!

I've been a RN case Manager for 2 years now. I started out in heme/onc and then did Bone Marrow transplants. I've never had blood drawn on a home patient. What tests are you drawing for? We would only ask for bloods on whose results we would interven...

Yes our agency had to pay for the supplies which were not cheap. But as they were recommended by our wound team, the bean counters couldn't deny the charges I also work for a company where most supplies are able to be ordered vendor to patient from a...

I had a patient exactly like that and after a wound care consult(iWork for a national company). We used unna boot with zinc,fan folded so there was no circumfrential wrapping. Then wrapped with surepress padding and then wrapped the whole thing with...