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  1. Gentiva Home Health

    bebop1 replied to Wendy_RN's topic in Home Health

    Gentiva has not "bedside manner" with its own nurses. I has surgery, wanted to come back to work. and they don't have clients for

  2. Yeah!!!!

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    :DHello...I have gotten into the WEB WOC school. and i am so excited! I cannot wait! but now I am stuck. i am looking for a preceptor. how do I go about finding that? I am now where close to the...

  3. wound vac taking pts "breath away"

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I have a wonderful pt that has a wond vac under her left breast, that actually goes up and under her breast tissue. well I think you may need to know a little about her too. she has had a bilateral...

  4. white skin around wound

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    what do you normally do for the white skin around a 'healthy wound'. I have went on call for a different office over the weekend, they are not good for their wound care. this poor patient has been...

  5. foley balloon size

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I have a question about the balloon in the foley cath. I have recently moved to a new state, and here they seem to use a lot of 30 cc cath sizes. I am not used to using this size of cath for...

  6. thoughts on the best protective seal

    bebop1 replied to bebop1's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    so which fungul powder do you use? so you clean the area, put the powder, then the tegaderm, then the drap on top of all of that? and that doesn't cause any maceration under the drap from being too...

  7. Experience needed for hh

    bebop1 replied to Lost in America's topic in Home Health

    Hello! I have been in home health now for over 4 years. I love it and will never go back to a hospital setting. the experience you need is pretty much what you is a good head on your shoulders. by...

  8. thoughts on the best protective seal

    bebop1 replied to bebop1's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    Thanks. I have never done that. I have used cavilon under the drape with a wound vac on one patient. and it seems to works well. but the wound is right by the rectum. so by the time I go to...

  9. WebWOC online program

    bebop1 replied to Codypatody's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    Hello! this is the course I am looking to take! I am trying to choose between this on and another one in my area. I actually live in Washington state, and university of washington has a wonderful...

  10. radiation burn

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I have just admitted a patient into home health for a radiation burn that takes her whole neck...I mean her whole neck..front, back sides.....its horrible. when I walked into her home...I think I...

  11. radiation burn

    bebop1 replied to bebop1's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    just an update.... pts wound looks wonderful. we used the vigilon once, she stated it burned so much she couldn't stand it. she loved the biafine, so we pretty much have just went daily to give her...

  12. Any 5th or 6th time test takers out there

    bebop1 replied to iwannabarn's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    NCLEX is horrilbe. It took me a year before I would even sit down for the test. I am a horrible test taker, and as I always said in school C's get degrees. there are the book smart people that get...

  13. Yet another new grad to Home Health Question Please Help?

    bebop1 replied to N51308's topic in Home Health

    Hello. First I want to say...welcome! we need more nurses...we need more home health nurses. I have been a home healt nurse now for 4 years. I will NEVER go back to the hospital setting. I was...

  14. nonhealing wounds

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I need some help..advice. I am taking care of a young patient that is WC bound she was on a nother home health at one point, but has switched to us because the other agency was doing the exact same...

  15. nonhealing wounds

    bebop1 replied to bebop1's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    One thing about my patient is she is medicaide. so its hard to get her supplies. She is WC bound due to MS. She is only 30 years old, so she likes to take her showers every day. so a wound care I...

  16. Expencised HHN - Please Advice!

    bebop1 replied to hellomich's topic in Home Health

    Well, things to consider are you a RN? Usually RN's have to take call. Taking call means 24 hours a day 7 days a week. at my company there is a rotating shift to where i go on call once a month....

  17. easy question? then some

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I have a question, almost feel silly asking it. I have a patient that has a wound on either the sacrum or the coccyx. it seems the wound clinic puts either or. does it matter? can you really tell...

  18. stage I, II, and a III

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    first I want to say...this website is wonderful. sometimes I feel like the nurses I work with are in a contest to see "who is better" and thats not me. I am in nursing for a reason...to take care...

  19. stage I, II, and a III

    bebop1 replied to bebop1's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    what are the pressure relief exercises? I am not sure of those things? And she sits in a scooter, and I am under the impression medicare will not cover any sort of pressure relief, or cushion due...

  20. my own health prob!!!

    bebop1 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question....and need help. I little story....jan I had my second child, a baby girl...very healthy at 9lbs 7oz....little to say it was my second c-section. the would got infected, and I...

  21. skin tears

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    ok. I am a home health nurse I have been getting a lot of patients out of a rehab center that has skin tears but all they do with them is put a tegaderm on them. so when they finally get home,...

  22. On Call

    bebop1 replied to deniseS's topic in Home Health

    I have been in home health now for 3.5 years, and have yet to go out once past 8pm. and that call was because they caregive was scared the trach was coming out. I have too kids, and my husband is...

  23. MRSA in wound

    bebop1 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    Hey...if anyone can help....I have multiple patients with wounds that have MRSA. I am a home health nurse, and of course they send them home....and about a week or two later after we have...

  24. Fingerstick Protimes

    bebop1 replied to SWRN84's topic in Home Health

    This machine is good and bad...at least at our office. There are times where we have to 'poke' the finger 5-6 times before we get the right result. It seems the machine doesn't work if too hot...too...

  25. spider bite wound care question

    bebop1 posted a topic in Home Health

    I had a new spider bite patient....when one of the nurses admitted him and went to change the dressing...the dressing was packed so tight the actual skin...the good skin was ....i guess you would call...