wheatfree RN

wheatfree has 12 years experience as a RN and specializes in Home Health/Med-Surg.

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1. Employer not offering COVID 19 vaccine in CA

   wheatfree replied to NightingmaleRN's topic in Home Health

   My company requires that I wear a mask and face shield (or goggles) and gloves to every visit. The patient needs to wear a mask during the visit, and so do any caregivers who are taking part in the visit and will be present in the room. If the patien...

2. Administering Psychotropics

   wheatfree replied to Sniper06's topic in Home Health

   I've never worked psych as home health, but I did in the hospital, and we had to have a consent form for each psychotropic we gave there.

3. CMS new 5 day rap rule eff 1/1/2021

   wheatfree replied to dag1625's topic in Home Health

   We've been doing this for a full year. The only exceptions were for weekend SOCs. Now, we're being told that it has to be done on the weekends too. Sometimes you have to know your limits, and if you can't get it done in one day, maybe you need to tal...

4. New HH RN Case Manager

   wheatfree replied to Nurse Tea's topic in Home Health

   1. Yes, the paperwork sucks, and someone still needs to define reasonable for me in that sentence because I've been told the same. So about a year into this job, I no longer need to read the Oasis questions and think about the answers. That makes it ...

5. PICC dressing change - clean the tubing?

   wheatfree replied to LesYou's topic in Home Health

   Yes. We use chlorhexadine swabs to clean our picc line sites. I use the sterile gauze in the pack to move the line out of the way to clean the site. Then I clean the line, let everything dry, apply skin prep, biopatch, securement device, and cover wi...