St_Claire ADN, RN

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 t...

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 f...

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 o...

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 rid...

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 D...

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 a...

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

The home health agency I work for is considering getting company cars for the nurses. We have a meeting about it Wednesday and we can ask questions. I don't even know where to begin aside from "can we use them for personal use?" And "what are the tax...

And when this white girl says she's a Buddhist it becomes the most interesting thing about her. :-) not the fact that I do 100 mile bike rides on the weekend or volunteer for everything under the sun. If you aren't working in a place that is owned/o...

That was a huge concern for us as well. You are taxed on the amount of personal miles you drive. We off set the vast majority of that with the money we pay each month for the car.

It turns out to be an incredible offer. They will supply the car, full coverage insurance, gas for personal and business use (we get a credit card), and we keep the car just like it belongs to us. We drive it like its our own car. We weren't allowed ...

I am new to home care case management. This week I did four SOCs and they each took about 4 hours. That was including the initial visit with the patient and all the charting on the computer. The first one actually took 6 hours. Everyone promises that...

Communicate with the nurse at the facility about changes or concerns. It always irked me when the hospice nurse came in for 10 minutes, left new med orders and disappeared. I loved working with hospice patients when I was a nurse at a LTAC. However,...

Ask if you can do a ride along for a day.

I never borrow. I call the pharmacy to see if it has been ordered and when. If they have had plenty of time to get it to us (ordered 3 days ago and still not here) I ask them to bring it right away. Notify DON whether its on the way or not. If the DO...

We have a handout that we do on admit that I really like. It's called My Emergency Plan. It covers: Breathing/lungs, Heart Failure, Chest Pain and a bunch of others, 9 total. As an example: Breathing/Lungs Call Nurse at Agency Increased shortness ...