Joybelle517

I'm a RN with ICU, ER, and IMCU hospital experience currently working in Home Health and loving it. I'm looking to relocate to the Phoenix area this summer and would like to stay working in Home Health. I did visit one company the end of last year ...

I have been doing HH for almost two years and wouldn't trade it for anything! I take calls, and all of my pts have my phone number to contact me any time. Pros: Having one patient at a time to deal with, learning about their lives and helpi...

I am a CM but I'm in the field following up and keeping track of all my pts. The only problem I have is the communication between the nurses seeing my pts who draw labs and the doctors receiving the labs. I'm not in the office so I have no idea who...

I have a large plastic bin for dry wound care supplies, a med bin for supplies that are wet and additional liquids like flushes and NS for wound cleaning, and a small bin for IV supplies and dsg change kits. I have a VERY LARGE bin in the house for ...

I use a diaper bag that came with an additional smaller bag that I use for my IV/blood draw supplies. I love it. And I wear scrubs unless I'm seeing one or two pts...that's only on a day that I volunteer and can pick and choose what pts to see.

Wow. And I thought I was going to make more money when I relocated! I make more money than any of you posting here, and I live in a tiny spot in southern IL!

Well, like I said, I don't know if it varies from unit to unit or whatever, but I make about 38,000/yr and been there almost three months. And the benefits are excellent too.

I make more than that, but perhaps it's because of the unit I'm on. I don't know. Do you work there? I work on IMCU.

I'm back in southern Illinois and making just under $19/hr. Sucks though, cause I was making over $23/hr in a small town in Wisconsin!!

I'm in Herrin. Funny to read posts from the folks by I-80. I was born and raised in Joliet and Springfield was southern Illinois. In fact, I was 21 before I found out that Illinois didn't end there! LOL!

I got my temp license in ten days. Praise God!!

I am in Herrin and will be starting my new job at Carbondale Hospital. My sister works there already, and I did my LPN clinicals there a few years ago. Marisol, did you move here?

Do NOT consider working at Heartland. It's located in Marion, IL, but it's not got a good reputation here. They are a for profit hospital, and this means the patient to staff ratio is 1:10-12. No way would I work under those conditions.

After working in a CBRF in an attempt to clean it up after several violations (this in Wisconsin), and coming across a med error where a PCW (personal care worker, NOT even a CNA) gave a resident 20cc of Morphine instead of Carafate....well, I'm tota...

What's NOVA?

I'm possibly moving to the Charlottesville/Richmond area this summer. I will be a new RN (been a LPN for a few years prior) and am looking for a job that will not only benefit me in where I want to go with my career, but will be a place that can hel...

Bumping this for info.

Depends on what shift you work. I interviewed with Bon Secour two weeks ago and they start out about $21 for day shift. I'm not sure if that's the going rate, but it's pretty competitive in Richmond. I graduate on Wednesday. Congrats!! I've been a...

I will be living near Louisa in late July and have had two interviews with Bon Secour and have three more lined up with VCU. So, which one should I take? Decisions, decisions......

I'm wondering what they are considering 'southern Illinois'. I know people who think that the St. Louis area is 'southern Illinois'. I moved to Green Bay from near Carbondale (that's in southern Illinois....LOL!) because the pay was horrible and the...

We had a resident at the nursing home in Wisconsin I work at die at the breakfast table about a month ago. She was being fed oatmeal when she suddenly dropped her head, wasn't breathing, non-responsive, and was bluish. The RN on duty called me and an...

I wasn't present in the DR, but the resident was at a feeding table where there are several other residents with CNA's feeding them. All of the CNA's agreed that she didn't cough at all...that she was eating one moment, and was dead the next. Just ...

The housekeeper was fired for violating HIPPA law, and the CNA feeding the resident was fired because she continued to attempt to feed her after she'd stopped breathing. The state didn't go on what the housekeeper said, they just started the investig...

Perhaps I should start my own thread asking my questions.

I know this thread is quite old, but I found it while searching this topic on the internet, and this situation almost applies to what the nurses at my job are facing now. We had a resident at the nursing home in Wisconsin I work at die at the breakfa...