Pediatric Private Duty Nursing in Central Arkansas

I'm hoping some of your amazing nurses can shed some light on how I might be able to help our local agency locate a nurse to care for my special son Spence. My son is 17 mos old and doesn't have a Trach however, he requires regular suction, breathing treatments, and feeding & meds via g-tube feeds.

Our current situation is as follows:

I'm active duty Air Force and our insurance Tricare Prime (Humana) has approved my son for Private Duty Nursing for 12 hours/day. Unfortunately every agency in the area went out of business and the sole remaining agency (Care IV) has for weeks now been unable to get any nurses to fill the vacancies they have. I've been told by the agency coordinator that we have better chances because my son doesn't have a trach & nurses prefer not to work with trach patients but she flat out told me it's hard to get nurses to work in my area because it's rural and away from the city (long drive).

My wife & I are u7p at all hours, round the clock caring for our son and honestly we haven't been out together since before he was born. My job has been on the line many times and I'm running out of ideas on how to get help caring for my son. We've come so far to finally get approved for the nursing to only find out that their's no nurses interested in working out here.

I'm hoping one of you nurses will read this and share it with a Central Arkansas nurse that might be looking for this line of work.

I appreciate any ideas or assistance.

Regards,

Jason