When you pts have an emergency and need to go to the hospital,does your agency make you go with the parents and child? Most agencies tell us to go,but follow the ambulance in our own car. Some say don't go anywhere;you have to go home because its the caregiver responsiblility.
Agency M tells us to stay until the kid gets admitted or discharged,because leaving would constitute "abandonment". The kids aren't the hospital's responsibility until either admission or discharge.
Another agency says as soon as the kids are in the hospital or ambulance,its the hospital's responsibility and the parents responsibility. You must leave as there is no reimbursement by the insurance companies.
What are your agencies rules?
I'm curious, because I have stayed in the hospital with some of the kids until admission or d/c and none of the nurses who worked for the hospital didn't do any actual hands on care, but they did take vitals.
I had to do all the suctioning of the trachs and changing the diapers.
Almost all of the parents have said when they wait in the ER(about 4 hrs around here) if the Pdn wasn't there that they would have to do everything themselves.