tinky471

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1. Families Saying "No" To Male Nurses?

   tinky471 replied to moretonel's topic in Private Duty

   An hospital has been sued and ended up losing 80k behind such a decision. https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/11-21-11.cfm. When a patient refuses care from a caregiver there are some...

2. Did anyone ever refuse a trip w/patient?

   tinky471 replied to Elektra6's topic in Private Duty

   It seems they're using the nurse as a "nurse babysitter" :-). As for me, I work at nights so I'm not usually asked to go to the doctors or other trips but the family that did ask me asked me to go...

3. Did anyone ever refuse a trip w/patient?

   tinky471 replied to Elektra6's topic in Private Duty

   I never travel with the family. I have a family as well. I also can't afford to work for free and working 24 hours, that's not safe for my patient. When the family has a vacation or travel plans, I...

4. Do I have the right refuse this client?

   tinky471 replied to NurseKay13's topic in Private Duty

   I'm not a lawyer but as an employee and not a doctor, you have the right to refuse to come to work no matter the job, including there. Now if you arrive on the job and accept the case, you then leave...

5. Downtime during school

   tinky471 replied to LilyRN99's topic in Private Duty

   That's actually not why're you're there (is it?). I'm not sure, I work at

6. Downtime during school

   tinky471 replied to LilyRN99's topic in Private Duty

   I actually disagree with this because, in my experience, when you begin doing these things that are NOT your duty as a favor, it BECOMES your duty regardless of how busy you are. For example, teacher...