clearblue3

clearblue3 specializes in assisted living.

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1. can you take a vacation?

   clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   Thanks for the advice! I should add that the family covers shifts that are not covered but they do live over an hour away. I know that it is a major pain for them, but like you said...this job isn't my whole life. It is funny how patients seem to th...

2. can you take a vacation?

   clearblue3 posted a topic in Private Duty

   I am not sure if this applies to working for an agency (can you request time off with an agency??) but if you are working as an independent private nurse, how do you ever plan a vacation? One case I work on has plenty of back up nurses and one nurse...

3. Pt. wants to go on vacation- needs nurse

   clearblue3 replied to maryen's topic in Private Duty

   I am surprised the agency only pays for care in the home....clients often go out in the community with their nurses so is there a certain distance from home at which they stop paying? All the nurses I know are independent and bill medicaid on their ...

4. getting order changed

   clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   Hi! Sorry it took me so long to respond to your comments! Thanks for the suggestions!! My patient is AOx3 but does not have the physical ability to take his own medications. SDALPN, I am an RN, so you mentioned I can change the POC? What we have ...

5. getting order changed

   clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   ok so don't eat me alive for this, but if you were an RN on this case and had questions but no agency, who would you direct them to? For policy questions, forms etc.?

6. getting order changed

   clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   I don't have one. I don't work for an agency. I am hired by the client and bill medicaid directly. The RN at the MD office said she would get me a verbal order for the route change today. I am just trying to contact Medicaid right now so that I c...

7. getting order changed

   clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   Well, thank you...I think. I don't work for an agency. Yes, lack of training can be very scary...however, you make it sound like I am risking my patient's life. I have paperwork questions. I have gone through everything on the POC and have called...

8. getting order changed

   clearblue3 posted a topic in Private Duty

   Hi! I am new to PDN so I just have a question about getting an order route changed :-) My client has an OTC cold med that is ordered to be dissolved in her G-tube but she wants to let it dissolve in her mouth as she has apparently done in the past. ...

9. Med questions

   clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   Thanks!! I know the other nurses there are wonderful (and so is the client :-)) so I figured they knew what they were doing...but the worrier in me always has to ask :-) The experience and knowledge on this board is always priceless :-)

10. Med questions

    clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

    Also what do you do if the patient always declines basic assessments....respiratory, GI etc. This is a very stable patient who only used to have CNAs and isn't used to all the documentation and assessment or so he says. I tried to sweetly talk him ...

11. Med questions

    clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

    Thanks everyone!! I don't work for an agency...so no policy there. I think that working without an agency is more common in WI?? It seems like the PDN nurses I meet are all working that way...probably because the pay is much higher and it is very ...

12. Med questions

    clearblue3 replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

    Thanks! And as for the vitamin...the order is for 300mg and the one they have is 1000mg. How do OTC things work? Say you are out and about with your client and they want to stop at walgreens and buy cold meds or supplements etc. can you administer th...

13. Med questions

    clearblue3 posted a topic in Private Duty

    Hi all! I am new to private duty and had a couple questions about meds...my client only takes a variety of vitamins and has an albuterol neb. The POC doesn't have a dose for the neb...just says "one ampule." There is a box of them in the med cabine...

14. Trying to decide....

    clearblue3 replied to pphs2000's topic in Educators

    Where I am from, I believe that NPs can also be hired to teach...at least at the associate degree level. So maybe NP would give you the option to work as an NP or teach?

15. NCLEX results still on hold?

    clearblue3 replied to pthomas89's topic in NCLEX

    Did you figure things out?? I took mine today and I am on hold too :-/