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  1. Gentiva 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!!!!

    :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. 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. 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. 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. 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

    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. 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

    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

    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

    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

    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. 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

    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

    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!

    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. 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. 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

    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!!!

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...