Does your agency accept patients with orders like this?

Maybe it is because there are only two of us and we are overworked and getting farther and farther behind as it is, but when we got a cheery phone call today with a patient referral for PICC line antibiotics every 8 hrs. (vancomycin and cephapine) for 3 weeks we both sat down and literally cried...we had just been celebrating that we only had three days left on a very difficult patient we had been sharing (who lives an hour away from both of us) who had been getting daily Levaquin IV for two weeks. Then this nightmare came over the wire.

Do all home health agencies grab at anything they can get with greedy hands? Or do some HH agencies actually consider their employees?

Maybe it is because there are only two of us and we are overworked and getting farther and farther behind as it is, but when we got a cheery phone call today with a patient referral for PICC line antibiotics every 8 hrs. (vancomycin and cephapine) for 3 weeks we both sat down and literally cried...we had just been celebrating that we only had three days left on a very difficult patient we had been sharing (who lives an hour away from both of us) who had been getting daily Levaquin IV for two weeks. Then this nightmare came over the wire.

Do all home health agencies grab at anything they can get with greedy hands? Or do some HH agencies actually consider their employees?

there is a system for delivering IV antibiotics through a PICC line every 8 hours that only requires a visit from a nurse every other day. You wear a fanny pack which contains a cassette filled with the antibiotic. It runs via a pump at a KVO rate until the abx is delivered. It saved me from having to stay at the hospital, it saved the agency from having to come to my house every 8 hours and I was even able to go to work.
Check out the options before you say no to it.