nurseinmo

nurseinmo has 8 years experience and specializes in Psych, LTC, Home Health.

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1. On-call hospice nurse

   nurseinmo replied to lwheatley's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   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...

2. Worried about tomorrow

   nurseinmo replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   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...

3. 485 question

   nurseinmo replied to nurseinmo's topic in Home Health

4. 485 question

   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...

5. 485 question

   nurseinmo posted a topic in Home Health

   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...

6. Home Health!! Need Advice!!!!

   nurseinmo replied to tinaj191's topic in Home Health

   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...

7. LPN's being on call

   nurseinmo replied to anticoagulationurse's topic in Home Health

   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...

8. 30 day medicaid summary?

   nurseinmo replied to nurseinmo's topic in Home Health

   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...

9. 30 day medicaid summary?

   nurseinmo replied to nurseinmo's topic in Home Health

   Thank you so much! I have looked everywhere and have yet to find anything that says this is required but wanted to see if it was something I was

10. 30 day medicaid summary?

    nurseinmo posted a topic in Home Health

    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...

11. Home Health Teaching Guides-HELP!!

    nurseinmo replied to RNRutRO's topic in Home Health

    Here is one with several useful things on Diabetes.... Diabetes Education and Research Center - Teaching

12. Scrubs or Street Clothes

    nurseinmo replied to nurse42long's topic in Home Health

    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...

13. Well baby visits

    nurseinmo replied to nurseinmo's topic in Home Health

    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...

14. Well baby visits

    nurseinmo posted a topic in Home Health

    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...

15. Is it possible . . .

    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...