ketchasketch_RN ASN

ketchasketch_RN has 21 years experience as a ASN and specializes in MDS, Home Health, Hospice, Director.

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   Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

   ketchasketch_RN replied to mcknis's topic in Activism

   All joking aside, you have not been watching the riots. Everybody should train and carry. You are negligent if you don't.
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   Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

   ketchasketch_RN replied to mcknis's topic in Activism

   What does this mean? The little toys? Handguns? Who talks about playing with them? The hospital people? LOL. And if you carry for self defense, do you carry the big toys?
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   Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

   ketchasketch_RN replied to mcknis's topic in Activism

   We would not be comfortable with you carrying either... if you are not comfortable.
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   Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

   ketchasketch_RN replied to mcknis's topic in Activism

   I conceal carry... am on security team at church... but have not brought it into my work as it is not permitted. I do, however, park my truck rather close in case of an emergency and have a plan worked out in my mind if every needed.
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   Im Pagan and a Hospice Nurse....

   ketchasketch_RN replied to SaylahStarr's topic in Hospice

   As a Christian RN, it is firmly my belief that God chooses us, not that we choose Him. With that in mind, my main focus is to ensure that all my patients... Christian or otherwise... leave this world as comfortable as possible... spiritually as well ...
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   Any CNA's use Accunurse at their facility?

   ketchasketch_RN replied to Buckeyefan47's topic in CNA/MA

   I am a former Vocollect/AccuNurse clinical specialist. I was one who help train and set-up AccuNurse in facilities in Texas. After I was trained, we moved to Texas to take over accounts in Texas and then Vocollect was bought by a larger company and t...
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   An open letter to the #NursesUnite movement

   ketchasketch_RN replied to disillusionedrn's topic in General Nursing

   I disagree with the ballyhoo toward the view and I also disagree with the post set forth here. Nursing is hard... deal with it. I have been in nursing for 20 years... ER, med surg, geriatrics, hospice, and now, home health. I have never been bullied ...
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   Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

   ketchasketch_RN replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   I have been doing home health for 10 years... in Denver and now in a rural part of Colorado... I have rarely had a day where not everything was finished by 6 PM unless I had multiple SOC that day... but routine visits, no matter how complicated, shou...
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   Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

   ketchasketch_RN replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   Been doing home health, pay per visit, 7-9 visits per day, and I have never had a day like that... interesting.
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    Difference between Cor & Code?

    ketchasketch_RN replied to scorpio99's topic in General Nursing

    We use the term in home health. Full Cor or Full Code. I have always used Full Cor vs DNR when assigning this.
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    Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    ketchasketch_RN replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    This is why I chose home health as my career path in nursing. With the new pay per visit system in place and point of care computer systems, I get out of the home at 10:00 AM each day and back home between 15:00 - 16:00 most days. Seeing 6-7 patients...
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    "No nurses of color....."

    ketchasketch_RN replied to Queen2u's topic in Relations

    I think passive aggressiveness is always the best... assign only black clinicians to this patient and have them all explain that they are not black, but may have ancestors who may have had some black in them... but that they identify as white. Of co...
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    5-day recertification window

    ketchasketch_RN replied to ketchasketch_RN's topic in Home Health

    cathrn64... I have heard this and have seen only a couple of agencies follow this... the vast majority of agencies I have worked for... mostly as a Director or Administrator have followed the rule that if it is going on the new 485, the evals have to...
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    5-day recertification window

    ketchasketch_RN posted a topic in Home Health

    Is there a rule (I can't find it) that indicates that all disciplines need to perform their evaluations as well as the comprehensive assessment in the 5-day window prior to recertification? I know the recertification comprehensive assessment must be ...