St_Claire

I keep the laptop on my lap and go through the OASIS then the care plan. I put the laptop in my bag and do my assessment making notes in my notebook, I also note what I taught, issues, etc. then when I get to my car I do the nursing note and put in the vitals. Make the laptop your friend.

Yes. It will require time management skills but it is doable. You will need a back up plan for those days it doesn't work. I would suggest being honest with your employer about your availability.

You need 2 years of full time experience to test for this.

I work hourly so I'm paid for all hours the same including time I spend doing paperwork. Travel is from your house to the patient then subtract the miles from your house to the office. It sounds counter intuitive but if your first patient is a mile from your house and the office is five miles from your house then you will not get paid for the first visit. I get my hourly rate for the drive time plus 55 cents per mile. I work for a not-for-profit in Salt Lake.

I work for a not for profit and we are offered $30 per month or a company cell phone.

My message is intentionally long and I speak slowly so it takes forever to get through my message: Hi This is Kym Last Name at Best Home Health & Hospice. If this is an emergency please hang up and dial 911. If you are calling between the hours of 5pm to 8:30 am please call the office at 555-555-5555..otherwise please leave a message and I will call you as soon as I can.

Congratulations Nurse, you passed!!!

All of that sounds very unprofessional. I would not be comfortable putting my license on the line. My company pays for everything: mileage, mi-fi, cell phone, laptop, and .55 per mile.

That's less than half the hourly wage and per visit fees are MUCH higher than that. It was a complete waste of your time.

Maybe this is true in certain areas. Thankfully it isn't true in Utah. Also there isn't a mandated one year rule here either.

I disagree with awheat. When a home health company hires a newly licensed nurse they accept the responsibility to train them, the same way any facility or hospital does. What you want to do is ask about the training. How long will they let you do ride alongs? Will you start with chronic vs acute patients? I think it's old school to say you must have experience first and then shrug your shoulders when asked how to obtain it. It keeps the notion alive that nurses eat their young.

Okay, everyone chant with me: Vast is the robe of liberation A formless field of benefaction I wear the Tathagata's teaching Saving all sentient beings. (Chant the above three times in a monotone; once for Buddha, once for Sangha, and once for the Dharma. ) Now, how meaningful was that to you? For me it is my morning ritual that puts me in tune with my spiritual beliefs. It has great meaning. To me. For you it may sound ridiculous, or nonsensical, you may look around for robe-wearing bald-headed men. How about joining me for morning sitting before every meeting or at the start of every day? Now stand in my shoes and tell me how your prayer, your belief system, should soothe and comfort me.

As a Buddhist I do not believe in hope the way you define it here. Hope means I am looking to the future for my happiness instead of being present in this moment (and this one...and this one...) therefore holding hope out to me is meaningless to me and you are taking away the very essence of my belief: Presence in this moment.

There's even more research that states meditation does all those things and MORE.