jeannepaul what is the census of the hospice you work for? I just interviewed for a job that sounds a lot like what you are doing. I was told they would pay an hourly/salaried rate for the time and...
I have seen this happen as well. I think sometimes when those "other" hospice agencies are trying to build in a new area they go above and beyond what they would normally provide to try to boost...
nurseinmo replied to nurseinmo's topic in Home Health
That's what we have been trying to tell her!! I thought maybe something had changed as far as the 485 was concerned; I think she is just mis understanding what the surveyor meant. There is no talking...
I have worked for the same HH agency (hospital based) for 2 years now. In that time we have had 6 directors... we recently had a survey that apparently didn't go like they thought it should. One of...
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My situation was a little different. As a new grad, I did about 3 months of med surg nights and then I worked in a long term care facility for the developmentally disabled, the same facility I had...
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Until recently our LPN was on call as well, with an RN back up in case of something outside of her scope. She is the only one of us who doesn't live in town and several times would call whoever her...
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Yes the ones I am thinking of are Medicaid only patients. we only do initial, 60 day, and d/c summaries for the Medicare patients. Apparently the story goes that it was sort of a "billing" thing...
Does anyone know anything about doing 30 day summaries for medicaid? I am fairly new to HH and was recently told I need to go back and do 30 day summaries on all my mcd patients....billing says that...
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We are allowed to wear either scrubs or street clothes but no jeans. I do know of another agency that does allow denim but not blue...they are allowed to wear scrubs if they wish as well. I do...
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THANK YOU!! That does help quite a bit actually. I wish they would let us use the paper forms for ours, esp since we don't do OASIS on infants and we usually don't see the moms as patients. The last...
We have just gone through some software changes and we are a very small agency and none of us are really "baby nurses" if ya know what I mean.. anyway, my question is, what are "must chart" things for...
nurseinmo replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health
Wanna move to "middle of nowhere" MO? We have a good agency as well. Just filled the open position but I don't look for this one to last long based on a lot of what she said today. :) The good ones...