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$3.25!!!!!! At least you get to sit compare to working at the hospital lol.
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Hey, another Home Health nurseI had a charge nurse that would scream at me everytime I asked her something. It was really getting me upset. How dare anyone think that they are allowed to yell at me! Who gave them the right!
A few times, including once with that person, I took her aside and said "I don't know if you're aware of this but you yell at me all the time and it's really getting upsetting". She was shocked. But I was nice about it and it stopped.
I would not be afraid to take that manager aside and tell her that her screaming at you has got to stop. Be really nice about it, but tell her to please stop. You don't get paid to come in to work to be screamed at.
Hospitals are stressful. If you don't speak up for yourself, you get eaten and pooped on. If you don't stop someone from treating you badly, soon everyone does because they can get away with it. If one treats you like an idiot and you let it go, eventually everyone will treat you that way.
Supafly, when I was new, the charting would make me cry at the end of a shift. I was so confused by it, what to write, what not to write, etc. A nurse rescued me by showing me a system that starts at the top and works it's way down for assessment. What saved me is writing these little systems down on a small pad, and this would make sure I covered all the bases. I carried that for a year. It took the stress away. Also, buy yourself a small pocket size book that lists illnesses or treatments and possible side effects , like with meds. It will help you cover what needs to be addressed according to what the patient has. A lot of that is from nursing school. If a patient has an IV, you have to address certain things in your note. And so on.
I'm just starting out as a visiting nurse, I've had 20 years neonatal experience, and it took me 2 years to get hired into working with adults. But with homecare, there's a thing called an Oasis. It's 20 pages long , checking off things about your patient. At the end, you push a button and it generates another paper that is THE plan of care. It's amazing how this system takes all the blocks you've ticked off and converts it into a narrative. However, there are guidelines to follow when writing what you did at that visit, and QA can keep sending back the form for corrections. It's real frustrating. If I take my $40 per visit and divide it by all the hours including paperwork, I make $3.25 an hour, LOL. But not really kidding.