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regarding a private duty's case....,
my agency tells me a patient's address and shift & days of a week i work and asks if i can do the case. they don't give me any other information such as age of the patient, what kind of diagnosis the patient has, and what kind of treatments a nurse is likely to give, etc. unless a nurse decide them if she/he accept a case. how is your agency? is your agency the same as mine?
p.s. i have not accepted any patient from this agency yet because the patients that they have introduced me have had addresses too far from my home, unfortunately....
Both agencies I work with give me the age, diagnosis, & interventions such as trach,vent, g-tube,etc. & then I tell them whether I'm even interested in going for an orientation. If I say I'm interested, they will then email me a copy of the 485 so I have more info before I go to the home. They're also very good about giving me details about the situation in the home before I go out.
Blackcat99
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At my agency, I was given a 15 minute class on ventilators and then was told that I could now do ventilator cases. I received a phone call from the recruiter telling me that they had a ventilator case available . I told them No thanks and that I did not feel comfortable with doing a ventilator case. I was told by the recruiter and I quote: "Don't worry about it. Besides this is a private pay patient and we can pay you much more money for you to do this case."