HELP

The only person who traps you is you. If you value your license, leave and leave now. The third sentence of your post convinced me.

Sounds like you really need to leave this position! If you are so afraid of losing your licenses and things are that bad, leave and leave NOW!!

It must tell you someting about this PCG if only one nurse will accept the client. Doing 12hrs 6 days a week = burn-out!

Give your proper notice and get gone!

Abandonment can only be a factor if you accept your patient for a shift and then take off without being properly relieved. If you were to call the lady tonight and tell her that you won't be there tomorrow, you have not abandoned your patient. Don't let the client's family pull anything over on you. Sounds like they have used emotional blackmail for far too long as it is.

I found out with private duty a great number of the family members will turn on you, stab you in the back and quite frankly don't give a hoot about you period. They will use you until you are all used up. They get rid of you for whatever reason they claim (because they have the power & many thrive on it), and of coarse will claim they are innocent victims. Who knows what they realy do when you are not there.

This is why I now avoid private duty. My private duty client's family thought they owned me. To Hades with my other clients and employers. The sad thing is that this is the same attitude displayed by client families that still use agencies to obtain their nurses. They get a wild idea, call the agency and accuse the nurse of bs, and the nurse develops a bad rep with the agency over a lie or several lies. It gets very debilitating over time.

Putting it in writing does seem to shed some light on the situation. Especially when you get feedback from third parties. Good luck with getting out of there. Take a vacation after you quit this case.