I am not a live-in nurse (although I am still a student). But I am in dire need of advice from your perspective.
I have hired live-in nurses to care for my 88 year old grandmother who has some early signs of Alzheimer's among many other medical conditions. The problem is that my grandmother keeps firing them all. There are no real reasons, just irrational things like "she was sleeping in my house", or "she was getting paid too much."
I have gone through 3 frustrated nurses in less than 1 month, and now it looks like I have to hire another. I try to reason with them, but eventually they get fed up with grandma.
Has anyone had experience with this type of situation? Anyone have advice for me? What is a nurse supposed to do in a situation like this?
Please help, I am desperate and don't know who better to ask than the nursing professionals themselves. Thanks.
If there's not already a healthcare POA in place now, then it sounds as if that option is no longer available. SHE has to be competent to make her wishes known to sign a POA. You can petition the court for a conservatorship over your grandma. If you don't want to do it, then maybe a son/daughter of your grandmother can do it.
If there's not already a healthcare POA in place now then it sounds as if that option is no longer available. SHE has to be competent to make her wishes known to sign a POA. You can petition the court for a conservatorship over your grandma. If you don't want to do it, then maybe a son/daughter of your grandmother can do it.[/quote']
That's not true. The POA can be completed but not activated. It takes the two MD signatures to activate. If one was never written then you're right, one cannot be written now.
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If there's not already a healthcare POA in place now, then it sounds as if that option is no longer available. SHE has to be competent to make her wishes known to sign a POA. You can petition the court for a conservatorship over your grandma. If you don't want to do it, then maybe a son/daughter of your grandmother can do it.