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Compassionate Care Hospice Houston Work Values

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Daily Duties at Compassionate Care Hospice Houston:

Admission Nurse works 11am to 7pm at that time, Usually we wait for patients to be discharged from some type of facility to a personal care home or family members house. The admission RN arrives the same day usually and evaluates all medications, discontinues non hospice meds, adds hospice medications noting if patient has any allergy history that contraindicates use of any of the medication hospice is prescribing through the physician. Explain all new meds to caregiver, staff if needed, mostly about pain scale, facial grimacing, and how to give or administer the medications. Also teach how to contact the hospice company and when their RN Case Manager will be out to explain more about the medications. Instr to keep a log of what is given and time it is given for RN to evaluate. Second all DME is ordered sometimes ahead of time, if not, I order all standard hospice DME and I contact the DON in the office for anything unusual. She usually will find the item or a substitute to satisfy patient.


What they like about Compassionate Care Hospice Houston:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.



Information about Compassionate Care Hospice Houston


Company Rank: Not Available

Average length of employment : 1 year

Average salary of employees: $10,000

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Compassionate Care Hospice Houston:

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I would recommend this as a place of employment.
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I believe in the purpose of this organization.
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I feel employees are fairly compensated.
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Climbers who worked at Compassionate Care Hospice Houston had these interests:

Books
Davis's Drug Guide Drug book to look up drugs prescribed to patients and teach on action, side effects and any food or drug interactions
Home Health Nursing Guide Mostly teaching guide for the nurse and focuses on skin assessment, preventing skin breakdown, interventions that ease pain that don't require a doctors order.
Raising Boys Describes the differences between the way boys show their love vs. girls. Gives examples of discipline without spanking your child so they learn from the experience.
Psychiatric Nursing Gives description of psych diagnosis and the characteristics of those diagnosis. It instructs the nurse on interventions on how to reduce anger in an aggressive patient verbally if possible and the typical drugs given or ordered for out of control patient
PDR-Mini Drug guide gives same information as other drug guides; however, set up differently. I was disappointed thinking it may be similar to the large Physician Desk Reference. I rarely use this book.
Medical Abbreviations and Eponyms Used to transcribe orders if an abbreviation is used that I don't recognize. The medical field is diverse and people come from all over the world to get their education and work; therefore, this book is handy at times.
Lab Quick Reference Mini reference guide to normal ranges for a CBC, CMP, PT, INR, and vital sign norms for a newborn, 3-6mo,6-9mo,9-12mo, and norms up to age 12, followed by adult norms.
Magazines
Parenting Parenting for a working Mom. Tricks and trends. Ideas to save time. Back up daycare, back up sitters, tips for learning efficiently.
Websites
WebMD

http://www.webMD.com

Medical website for both layman and professional people to research diagnosis, drugs, signs and symptoms. It gives references and and educates with the information it is given.
wendikoonce

http://www.facebook.com

Social website where I connect with old friends


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