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I been with this home health agency for 9 years, secretary to LVN. I just got my license a month ago. I do QA work including coding of the recerts. I asked my boss if I can see 1 or 2 patients on the weekends. He said he would think about it and...

I work full-time Mon-Fri 8-5 at the other agency, but you're right, as long as it doesn't interfere with my full-time job.

I work for a home care agency, and yes sometimes it seems like they want miracles to happen. Patients that we take under home health services need to actually have a need for skilled nursing visits like a wound, unstable BGL's, unstable B/P, etc... ...

I'm an LVN, officially received my license on 01/06, and I too also finally got a job offer for a home health agency doing part time visits on the weekends after applying to several home health agencies. Most agencies in California require at least ...

For keeping track of hospitalizations, two people are assigned to manage any patients admitted to the hospital. A list of patients hospitalized are kept in excel form which looks like this. PATIENT NAME/FACILITY WITH PHONE#'S/ADMIT DATE/DISCIPLINES ...

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california

we normally use "qd x "x" amount of days if there is a need for consecutive visits - daily injections x 4 days, or daily IV x 4 days

soc consists of: forms to be signed or filled out by patient/cg: consent form medicare payor screening form emergency plan form route sheet (end of visit) Sn paperwork: SOC OASIS md order - to state frequency and orders medication list abn form (...

I work for a home care agency as an LVN. I code the recerts and QA the charts, and make corrections for the nurses. Regarding the frequency, missed visits, and reporting to MD. If a frequency is given 1wk5, visit are 1 visit per week for 5 weeks. If...

I am a new LVN, but working in the home health field for 9 years in the office coding, developing plan of treatments, auditing charts, staffing, etc... I finally got the opportunity to do a visit with one of the RN's. Patient needed a Coumadin chec...

Thank you, it makes me feel much better, I am scheduled to see 2-3 other patients, wound care, insulin, colostomy... and will schedule more (trying not to overwhelm myself). I have nurses here who are ok with me tagging along to observe the home hea...

thanks for the information, so the next question is, are there any nurses out there who went straight into home health, despite the 1 year minimum clinical experience?

Hello fellow nurses, I recently got called for an interview for a position I had applied for - case manager/utilization management for a big insurance company. Qualifications, if I remember correctly, was to have at least 2 years case management ex...

Yes I did note "clinical experience provided by my college". I even noted "observed catheter insertion"... HR manager told me that if the interviewer called me then she must think I meet minimum requirements and the fact that she gets at least a hu...

28.00/hr - homecare agency/case manager/coding/QA, I was making 21.00/hr as a QA (without license), then got a raise to 25/hr when they switched me to coding (still without license), then 28.00 hr after I passed my nclex, I start my field training in...

My application was mailed out around the end of December, and was processed mid December. I did not get my ATT until May. What you can do is email them, I emailed them about 2x/week trying to follow up because it's impossible to reach them by phone...