nursenmom3

I have no advice, I just wanted to say that I am glad you are home, and I hope you everything goes smoothly.

I posted something similar in the PDN forum, but it seems like this one is busier. Sorry if you're seeing it twice! My husband and I are considering sending our medically complex son to school, and I'm trying to get a little more information about ...

I guess you could consider this a spin off on my post about private duty nursing for my 9 year old at school, but I'm wondering if people have thoughts on what makes a private duty assignment more or less desirable. Are there things a parent could ...

Can you explain a little bit more about what you mean by this?

The women I know who wear hijab have hijabs that match their clothing. They change them frequently. I don’t see how a piece of cloth on someone’s head, securely fastened, and changed and washed with the same frequency as her scrubs would be more of...

My kid has scabies. It can live in the grass so It is easy for a kid to catch if they play outside in places where other kids play. The doctor said he likely got it from a soccer field. It was mildly itchy and cleared up with one application of loti...

That's good advice. It's becoming very clear to me that I probably need to spend a lot of time going over expectations for communication, but also for other things. For example, it would never have occurred to me that a nurse would be involved in la...

Surprised? Not any more. Annoyed? More and more every year! LOL! I'm sure that I'll have some annoying thing that will come out. During our most recent stay, I'm pretty sure the PICU staff thought I had lost it because 3 times a day I'd order hi...

And hopefully the nurse will understand that it's not personal. He'd really rather Mom didn't do it either, even though I'm the one who taught Dad!

I have not encountered this, but as a parent of a technology dependent child who spends a lot of time in the PICU, I would love to learn more.

@Orion81RNThank you for taking the time to type that out three times, because it's super helpful for me to understand the other perspective! Obviously, it's hard to know what it will be like having nurses in the house until it happens, but to me it'...

I think he'd be a pretty cool patient, but I'm slightly biased.

OK, that's definitely a factor. But I swear I've read posts on here where people had patients with ventilators AND crazy parents, and the agency wouldn't back them up. So, it's not like nurses who can work with vents are treated well either.

We can try. I sometimes think that there's a perception that it's easy to get Medicaid or private insurance to pay for things. In my experience there are times when Medicaid and insurance are very generous. For example, I have an enormous supply of...

Sorry, I feel like I've taken over the forum with my questions! My son will have surgery on his feet at some point in the coming months, and for a period of time afterwards will be completely non-weight bearing. He's got pretty severe arthritis in ...

I agree that it's sad. Coming from an area where finding and keeping PDN nurses is really hard, it also really confuses me. The agency doesn't make any money unless they have both patients AND nurses. Around here, the nurses are the ones who seem ...

I know right? Do you agree that it looks less scary than dangling your child from the ceiling?

I don't know if we could get Medicaid to pay for a ceiling lift, both because we'd need to argue that he needs it long term, which would be hard because we're simultaneously ask them to pay for the surgery on the grounds that it will help him walk, a...

That's exactly how this would work, like the perfect thing would be for you to come to our house and say "I love Queen, let me watch Bohemian Rhapsody with you and teach you how to lip sync". And either he'll end up loving Queen, or he'll enjoy tryi...

He's super smart and intellectual, which I realize is a weird word for a 9 year old, but most of the things he enjoys are things that involve thinking? So, strategy games, or reading and talking about books, or music, or building with those legos th...

I think that more than food, the place where I need to have conversations up front is about downtime. If someone's working with my kid, even during the day, there's going to be a lot of downtime. He's a kid who needs a fair amount of medical trea...

I am so sorry. I hope you know what an incredible difference you must have made in both her parents' lives and hers.

I assume that if we ever get a steady nursing plan, that we'll end up with separate night and day people. It seems to me that the two shifts would appeal to very different personalities. So, I'd be happy if I found someone great who only wanted day...

The bolded is my goal. That's the relationship I'd like to build. Not because I want you to scramble eggs or set up chairs, but because that's who I want to be as an employer. But I also want to build the kind of relationship where the nurse can...

My honest opinion is that reheated scrambled eggs are not appetizing. My other kids probably wouldn't bat an eye at eating them, so maybe that's my own hang up. But, this kid has enough problems eating, due to nausea/decreased appetite from meds, a...