KateRN1

KateRN1

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  1. I Need Yur Advice Please

    KateRN1 replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    The experience of an RN is far beyond inserting foleys and proper trach care. Please don't confuse bedside nursing as being task-oriented. It's not about what you do in a day, it's about all that...

  2. COS - C

    KateRN1 replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health

    Thanks for the tips. I think I will take along some of those highliter-colored sticky page pointer-outer things so that I can mark as I go any areas that they point out as being "testable." It's been...

  3. passwords?

    KateRN1 replied to moonjumper's topic in Home Health

    Sounds like a case for the corporate compliance team. If you have proof that she is altering your documentation, that is also a case for the Board of Nursing, I think. If you don't have a corporate...

  4. Home Care Fraud - How to escape.

    KateRN1 replied to erroridiot's topic in Home Health

    That sounds like a Medicaid or Medicaid-waiver case, which is not necessarily subject to the same Conditions of Participation that Medicare is--depends on the

  5. COS - C

    KateRN1 replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health

    How many questions was the exam? I noticed that they only give 2.5 hours for

  6. $22.78

    KateRN1 replied to RNStudy's topic in General Nursing

    I'm also in FL, but a little north of you. Cost of living is not a factor for HCA hospitals, in the least. "But you get paid in sunshine" doesn't help pay the rent. You basically have two options,...

  7. What do Home Health Nurses Keep in their Trunk!!!

    KateRN1 replied to ilovenursing2009's topic in Home Health

    Oh, yeah. What Caliotter said. I also have a set of scrubs, along with a change of underwear, socks, and Crocs. Haven't ever had to use them, but there they are, just in case. Also a spray bottle...

  8. What do Home Health Nurses Keep in their Trunk!!!

    KateRN1 replied to ilovenursing2009's topic in Home Health

    Oh, boy. It'd be better to take a picture than try to explain, but I'm too lazy to go out and do it. Okay, in the trunk we have: 1 large flat Rubbermaid box (the underbed storage kind) with wound...

  9. Discharges and pay???

    KateRN1 replied to spejsa's topic in Home Health

    Home health is a whole 'nother world of nursing, with its own set of guidelines that sometimes make no sense. It will probably take you six months to a year, maybe more, before you really feel like...

  10. Please advice...YOUNG cancer patient and I feel helpless

    KateRN1 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in Home Health

    Sounds like your psych nurse doesn't want to face it either. Write your order as: MSW referral for community resources. I still recommend getting a hospice consult for yourself. The major agency...

  11. last day of recert, sent pt to hospital, what paperwork do I do?

    KateRN1 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in Home Health

    Oops, you're right Berube. No discharge OASIS necessary as the transfer is considered the last OASIS, but the agency still has to discharge the patient and she will be a SOC when she comes out if you...

  12. To the RN I just had hospital orientation with today....

    KateRN1 replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in General Nursing

    To the New Tech Who Oriented With Me Today: I've only been an RN for less than a year and I'm still uncomfortable with all that I am supposed to know. Sometimes I miss the days when I "only" took...

  13. Mobbing support - threats, hostile work environment

    KateRN1 replied to NurseBrittney's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting . . . . I didn't hear a self-assessment of your role in the situation, other than that of "victim." Lateral violence is never to be condoned, but my first question to anyone is "What was...

  14. Filling out orders to include sup visits?

    KateRN1 replied to spejsa's topic in Home Health

    Sup visits don't have to be included in your POC, but the agency I'm with now does include them in the 485, for both LPN and HHA. Sup visits may depend on your state. In FL, LPN sup visits are every...

  15. Please advice...YOUNG cancer patient and I feel helpless

    KateRN1 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in Home Health

    She needs a referral to Hospice, IMO. If she's not ready for hospice, then a behavioral health consult (psych nurse) is in order. If you don't have psych nursing available through your agency, then...

  16. last day of recert, sent pt to hospital, what paperwork do I do?

    KateRN1 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in Home Health

    You will do the transfer oasis and then a non-visit discharge. When the pt comes out of the hospital, she will be a new

  17. Discharges and pay???

    KateRN1 replied to spejsa's topic in Home Health

    I think the OP is asking how she gets paid for a "non-visit discharge" when she is paid per visit. This is part of the problem that I have working on a pay-per-visit basis, there is so much that is...

  18. Filling out orders to include sup visits?

    KateRN1 replied to spejsa's topic in Home Health

    RN to perform LPN supervisory visit every 60 days. RN to perform HHA supervisory visit every 14

  19. what date do I put for an assessment on a discharge/transfer??

    KateRN1 replied to spejsa's topic in Home Health

    The date of the transfer is the date that the agency learned of the transfer. If we're notified of hospital admission two days after the fact, then that date is what is put for the transfer date....

  20. CE classes for RNs in Florida

    KateRN1 replied to Qka's topic in Florida Nursing

    I like RN.com. Unlimited CEUs for $30 and I enjoyed the content, not just plain ol' black and white text. Any just about everybody will send them to CE Broker, but you still have to pay for their...

  21. Opinions, Is this illegal?

    KateRN1 replied to meriposa's topic in Home Health

    From my experience at Amedisys *eat Cheerios at desk in morning, popcorn and other snacks in afternoon *talk on phone all day but not to clinicians unless . . . . *call clinicians for trivial matters...

  22. HELP!

    KateRN1 replied to spejsa's topic in Home Health

    The first issue I see is that daily dressing changes are rarely indicated. It disturbs the wound bed too much and is likely to do more harm than healing to the wound. And Dakins is so caustic to the...

  23. OASIS nurses??

    KateRN1 replied to aubreysmommy's topic in Home Health

    I think it sounds like they're having LPNs do the revisits while you do all the stuff that requires an RN--meaning you will end up getting paid less per hour than the LPNs and will have far more...

  24. OASIS nurses??

    KateRN1 replied to aubreysmommy's topic in Home Health

    Well, considering that an average SOC takes me at least 2 hours in the patient's home and then another hour or 2 afterwards to complete, I'd have to say that $100 per SOC would be about right....

  25. Simple Drug Teaching Sheets

    KateRN1 replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health

    Oh, finally found one myself: