You Know You're a PDN When...

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Please excuse my post. I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just didn't enjoy pdn that well. I had great kiddos though

Don't apologize! Sometimes I feel like an UNDERpaid babysitter! ;)

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Specializes in Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU.

You know you are a PDN when you really have seen it all and a family manages to prove you wrong!

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Specializes in Pediatric.
When you feel like an over paid baby sitter

I totally get what you meant and knew you weren't trying to offend :) I used to feel that way at one of the first PDN cases I worked. It was tough.

You know you are a PDN when you really have seen it all and a family manages to prove you wrong!

YES.

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Specializes in pediatrics; PICU; NICU.

My patient has fused vocal chords so he uses sign language. Every morning when I leave, he signs "I love you" to me.

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Specializes in Pediatric.
My patient has fused vocal chords so he uses sign language. Every morning when I leave he signs "I love you" to me.[/quote']

Awwwwwww!

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You know you're an AWESOME PDN when you know that my night nurse called out, my husband is deployed and you leave home 15 minutes earlier to surprise me with some Ben & Jerry's ice cream when you show up at 8am!

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Specializes in Pediatric.
You know you're an AWESOME PDN when you know that my night nurse called out my husband is deployed and you leave home 15 minutes earlier to surprise me with some Ben & Jerry's ice cream when you show up at 8am![/quote']

That is so sweet! I want to be that type of support, I think I can with the wonderful single mom I'm working for now. I love doing little things to help brighten their day (4 kiddos) professional boundaries or not.

Speaking of which, one of the things I did was bring in a cute wicker basket for all the nurses on the case. They can stash their stuff in it and I included snacks, puzzle books, a few older books I had on nursing (Chicken Soup type books) I know mom was touched because she wants to do things like this but it's a tight in situation.

The other primary nurse and I do little things to try to brighten up the patients room, they live in a crowded Apartment w 4 kids and 2 adults.

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Specializes in Pediatric.

Oh. So the agency director found out and lectured me. He said if the basket malfunctions (huh?) we can be sued.

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Specializes in Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU.
Oh. So the agency director found out and lectured me. He said if the basket malfunctions (huh?) we can be sued.

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I think I'd be willing to take that risk! Your director needs to relax!

On some of my cases, when I've been lucky enough to work with a great team of nurses, we would bring in magazines and leave them for each other.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

I am unable to even imagine HOW a basket could 'malfunction'.......

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