If You Could...

[Adele_Michal7]

You win the lotto and you receive one stipulation: you have to open up a humane nursing agency. What are your dream requirements? You have unlimited funds.

I would...

✔ Pay nurses $50 an hour (in the hope I'd attract high quality candidates.)

✔ Give real interviews (the two agencies I've worked for didn't interview.)

✔ Offer assistance to families. AKA, low income family needs a fan or AC? DONE. Low income family needs desk or chair for nurse? DONE.

✔ Scratch that, every home would be outfitted with a deluxe office chair that had a built in massager type thing. Also a small laptop cart for charting.

✔ Unlimited gloves, paper towels, toilet paper, Dial soap, masks, gowns, Purell, and diapers for all :)

[Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN]

Not a nurse but I know you all know I wouldn't pass this one up.

Laptop for each client home for charting, receiving copies of orders, having stuff organized. Wifi or air card paid by agency. Nurse IS allowed to use it for "personal" use while working.

Paying for a LANDLINE phone for each client home. Nothing freaks me out more than having no one in the home but a nurse, having a major emergency where she can't talk and the only phone she has to use is her own cell phone. At least on a home phone, in 99.2% of the USA, a landline phone gives the address.

Having a social worker or two ON STAFF to help with transition home, finding services that the family may not know about, assisting with difficult situations (hoarding, cleanliness, unrealistic expectations, etc.).

Hiring a parent partner (ME!!!!) to help new families with room organization, making go bags, setting up and maintaining care books, etc.

Tuition assistance for nurses wanting to get RN or advanced degrees.

Mileage reimbursement

Completely providing nursing related items if families can not provide (gloves, soap, paper towels, toilet paper, lotion, hand sanitizer, pens).

Medical equipment for each child so that the nurse isn't responsible for bringing it from family to family (stethoscope, BP cuff, pen light, flashlight)

"Scholarship" money to low income families for nursing related necessities (chair, desk, lamp, cleaning supplies).

Actual, high quality training opportunities for the nurses

Pay for ACLS, PALS, Neonatal Resuscitation, BTLS for every nurse

Such an awesome answer! Nodding my head excitedly at every single word.