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Intellicare is also a company where employees are remote....work from home. They offer triage nursing and/or disease management. Great company to work for. They have openings coming up. Go to their website.

Agree with everyone else. Definitely not homebound and no skill. We would not admit this patient.

I graduated from Mo Bapt in 1984. I have been in home care since 1987 and have often thought of taking the refresher course the institue offers, to try to get back into hospital nursing. Glad to hear you are doing so well. Do you think the refresh...

mrob.....where are you taking your refresher course? How long have you been away from acute care nursing?

I have been working in home health for 20 years now. Over the years, I have seen the pay scale/type change back and forth. I worked 5 years for a hospital based agency, but the remainder has been with an independent privately owned for-profit agenc...

As of March 16, approx 4700 home care agencies registered to participate in this initiative. I am responsible for some of the QI implementation in our agency, including outcomes. I registered the first day. The first implementation package was sen...

We have always flushed ports once monthly if they aren't being used. They may last longer than that without flushing, but in the 20 years I have been doing home health, both agencies' policies have been monthly flushes for those ports that aren't be...

I worked for Intellicare in the disease management division.....I trained in the St. Louis call center. I worked for 2 weeks in the call center then went remote at home. At the time I was told the triage nurses stayed working in the call center unt...

23 years ago I started as an RN at $7.77/hr in a small rural ICU in Missouri.

What state do you have your license in?

Yep Christine, I do know exactly where you are. I was over in Warrenton just the other day. I was doing home health visits and worked my schedule to end up there so I could make a visit to the outlet mall. Didn't find what I was looking for, but I ...

I have been working in home care for 19 years....staff nurse, case manager, supervisor, now am working prn 4 days per week. Home health is a great place for a nurse to really develop different skills and is truly what nursing is all about. Your pati...

We use INRatio fingerstick machines for most of our patients in home health. We started using them a few months ago. Prior to that, though, I have occasionally had a patient where the blood would not entirely fill the tube to the line it was suppos...

I live in Lincoln County....approx 1 hour north of St. Louis. RN since 1984.....most of my time has been spent in home care....now I'm at the "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up" stage....still in home care and needing a change I think. B...

Just wondering how many of you use fingerstick protime machines? Our agency just started using them. Today was my first time in a patient's home with one. It was so great having that INR result right there in a matter of minutes. When we first star...

I think it depends on how your assessment skills are....what type of nursing you did prior to leaving to raise your kids. If you are confident in your nursing assessment skills, that's half of it. You have to be autonomous, use critical thinking s...

We also use the machines where you collect in capillary tubes after the fingerstick. We use a machine called INRatio. I have been lucky this week....2 days in a row I was able to get orders right at the patient's home.....that doesn't happen too oft...

We've been using the machines now for several weeks. At first we had a couple results that didn't seem right, so we went ahead and did a venipuncture protime to verify accuracy. So far they have all been close in results. We had an extensive inser...

Intellicare offers a work from home environment after going through orientation. They have 2 divisions....disease management and triage nursing.

The home care agency I work for hired a prn nurse....no home care experience, but ER and med surg experience. She oriented full time for a couple of weeks, then went down to working one 1-2 days per week. She seemed to do fine with it. I had alway...

If you're looking to use your nursing skills, Intellicare offers work from home. They do disease management (which is what I did for them), and triage. Almost all of their nurses work from home.

I have been working in home care for 19 years. It was a position that sort of "fell into place" and I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. Luckily, I loved it and have basically stayed with it all this time. While my kids were young (babies/todd...

I agree.....talk with your supervisor, let her know what has happened with your home schedule. Many times, they will be willing to work out something....it may end up not being the optimal position for you, but they may be able to work with you on t...

Tweety!....you're flame proof! I loved that! After I read your post, I thought "oh boy, he's asking for it!"....but the flame proof comment....too funny!! I am in agreement with you. I don't expect much for Nurses Week. I've been a nurse too long...

We just received notice at work for those of us who were born after 1957, we have to give proof of 2 mumps vaccinations, or have a titer drawn. I did find my immunization record and it looks like I only had one dose in 1971. I will have to have a ti...