bmoore1973

They watch us very closely for this

i love home health! i just do per deium, i see between 10 and 15 patients a week, i usually spend about an hour or so with them, sometimes more sometimes less, just depends on what is going on. i see the same ones every week. i know the full time nurse sees probably double what i do, she works 5 days a week but she has the same patients most every week!!

temple hosptials are supposed to be some of the best around! and yes you really have to check out the hill country area, fredricsburg is wonderful. there are a bunch of outlet malls in san marcos i believe. that part of texas is just gorgeous, especially you will get part of the fall and get to experience the color changes in the trees!!! good luck!

i did prn for a home health agency and it was all computer documentation and all the nurses had laptops! i loved it, it saved on lots of papers. as now i work home health andi have so many peices of paper some days i just want to scream! with computer, everything i needed to konw about the patient was there and if someone else had seen them the week before i could look at their note and see what they did! it was great!!

if you don't mind me asking, where will you be living? i grew up in grahm which is south of wichita falls, i might be able to give you some information about the area to work other than wichita falls! if you want to pm me feel free to! good luck on your search!

you might look into the katy area or the tomball area. we lived in houston for 3 years and it was a huge adjustment, but if you get out of the inner city part it isn't too bad! tomball has a good hospital and out at katy memorial herman has a new hospital! both areas are really good and they have kind of a small town feel to them too with the city stuff close by! hope that helps, if you have anymore questions feel free to ask!! good luck!!!

i just can't imagine giving rocephin without lidocaine! that is just cruel!!!!

im sure it has to do with your hospitals policy and procedures. i have worked in two different hospitals and one you had to have a rn check with you and another you didn't!

so why did you bother posting something?

I really hope that you have gone further with this! I just can't imagine giving out a diagnosis! Some child is really going to get hurt and that scares me to death!

i have worked in several aspects of nursing and no matter what you do, nursing is not an "easy" job! have you considered maybe you are in the wrong profession?

i really like this post, i worked in a pedi clinic where we do all the pku's for newborns and i watched nurses who would squeeze the poor baby's foot until it was blue! My best results were to have mom hold the baby like she were burping him/her and i never had a problem, most of the time the babies never flinched when i stuck them.

my best friend lives in saginaw and they love it there! the school district is supposed to be great, better than the ft worth school district. it is great but you the convience of being out of the city a little but then really the citty is still right there! hope this helps. i know that they would never live anywhere else!

i don't know about "wacko" because it takes a special person to be a nurse! i think this profession can sometimes make a person crazy becaue of all that is expected of us and all that we do! if that is what you mean by "wacko"!!!

the way i see it is, that is the way it is going to be when you go to work. if you work in a hospital setting and you work an 8 or a 12 hour shift, you are most likely going to be busy all the time. there are many times when you work on a hospital med/surg floor you will be glad to get 15 for the whole shift. i say, just get used to it because nursing is busy, keep moving job and the patients or the dr's or someone always needs something from you!

i have been reading your posts the last few weeks, so happy you are joining us in texas. you are going to love the dfw area. it is great. i live in granbury and is still the small town life and only 30 minutes to ft worth. good luck on your adventure!!

looks like this has been an interesting post. the only thing i want to say is that we are supposed to be professionals and in that respect we are supposed to abide by the laws and it is illegal to take any kind of drug. that is no way around it, it is illegal and they should not be doing it and as adults who worked really hard to get where they are and have the responisiblity that they have they should know that. If you are with them when they are doing drugs, you are just as guilty even if you aren't doing it yourself.

Happy, i am looking for something similar to do, i need something with flexiablity and my own hours. could you tell me how you got started doing that. you can private message me! thanks!

the other thing i am figuring out about small towns it depends on who you know. really sad, but i am not getting in a hurry. i have a couple of prn's from ft wort,h, i can drive over there 2 or 3 days a week and make more than if i hire on full time. just frustrating being somewhere new and not knowing anyone. when we were in houston i didn't have a problems at all finding a job because there is such a great need there. but i do like being back in north texas again!

so dusty did you have any luck graham? i just moved from there! great small little town

have you looked at the nursing homes and hospital in Graham. Graham has a good hospital, nursing homes are ok. i know the home health agency's in graham need help also for cna's. Graham oaks nursing home does a cna class every few months. you might check in to that.

My family have just moved to the Granbury area, just outside of ft. worth. I am finding lots of job openings in ft worth, but i don't really want to drive 30-45 miles to work, there doesn't seem to be a lot of options inside of granbury, i have only been here a few days, but didn't know if anyone lived out here in this area and had any ideas. i am an lvn with 4 years experience in med/surg, oncology and office settings and home health. thanks!!!

I was just reading your post, i interviewed with Tombal about a year ago and I interviewed with HR and the attempted to get me to meet with the nursing supervisor but they had an emergency and i couldn't that day but i think usually they do it the same day. I worked for memorial herman northwest for two years and they always interviewed with hr and then took you up to ther nursing supervisor

when i studied for my nclex i just studied the notes i took at the review course and the study guide that went with it. i know that you can buy nclex flash cards that are supposed to be very helpful. i just did a lot of reading the few weeks up to time to take my test. good luck!!!