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So I’ve worked a Peds HH case for 6 months now. There are lots of issues with the child and the parent and I just grin and bear it, but have wondered many times if the fine line has been crossed and I need to call CPS. But that’s another post. Today I see the mother has affixed a dry erase calendar to the client’s bedroom wall with a list of duties written on it. It’s everything I do every shift, with the addition of: 1) clean and disinfect bathtub (I already rinse the tub out after use with hot water several times, and mother knows this) 2) Sweep and vacuum all floors except mother’s bedroom (which I never go in anyway) Now I do a lot of picking up/ cleaning up after the very mobile and destructive (and extremely ill-behaved) 3yo. The house is always clean at the end of my shift. I even wipe off counter tops, if I see they need it. Where is the line drawn with house cleaning duties? The sudden list of duties appearing has rubbed me the wrong way I guess. Seems passive aggressive. I’m supposed to clean out and disinfect the bathtub and sweep and vacuum the floors? (Obviously I clean up any messes/spills the child makes in my care)

What do I do when my just turned 3yo client won’t let me intermittent cath her? She squeezes her knees together, twists and turns, screams bloody murder, squirms, pulls at my arms/hands and hair. I work evenings with her. There are no parents (single mom at work) there with me. I’ve tried all of the distractions, all of the “tricks” I can think of. I’ve told her mom what’s happening. She said it’s happening at her daycare also but there is someone there to hold her down so the other person can cath her. I feel it’s really traumatizing to this little girl. Heck, it’s traumatizing to me and what are the legalities of practically bodily forcing this on her? I don’t feel good about it at all. I really am not able to do it alone and I feel like it’s really traumatizing this little girl because I know it’s traumatizing to me. I feel like now that she’s 3, she’s become more aware of her own body and doesn’t want anyone other than mom in her private area. Anyhow. It has to be done after her bath and before I put her to bed due to urinary retention. Help.

I will take any and all advice. All I know is that it’s a 2yo girl and I’m having a meet and greet with mom and between us, we are going to agree on days and times I can work the case. Also, I believe the agency mentioned I would be doing the admission. So an admission with my first home health case.

Hi, I’m tentatively hired pending passing the “competency assessment” at Maxim next week. I’ll be working Peds cases. The thing is that even though I’ve been a nurse since 2008, I haven’t worked as a nurse for the past two years due to taking care of my dad who was terminally ill. I’m grateful I was on the position to be able to take care of my dad until he passed, now I feel totally out of the loop about anything r/t nursing (besides what I was doing to take care of my dad, but you know what I mean...) I have no idea what the competency assessments consists of, what I should brush up on between today and Wednesday morning. Has anyone taken the competency assessment at Maxim in the last year? I’d love to know what to expect in general, hate going in blind!

Doesn't sound legal to me! I would report to BON.

I have experience working days and evenings in LTC, 8 hour shifts. I have never worked 7P-7A shift, BUT I am a night owl. Any advice for starting to work this night shift in LTC? Also, wondering what time you go to sleep, what time you wake up after a shift? We have 8 resuce/foster dogs currently and they require a lot of work and attention, just wondering how I'll handle that but really it's not much different than coming home and having to take care of babies/kids after working all night. Pros / Cons to working 7p-7a? Thanks!

Thank you.

Thank you, I didn't see this forum. Help, anyone?

Hello, My story is long and I will try to make it short without leaving out important details. I've been in an abusive marriage with a narcissist for many years. Lot's of reasons why I was still involved, I guess if you are familiar/educated on domestic violence, you will have some idea. Last summer I was shopping in Walmart with my husband who is also a life long alcoholic and drug user, while we were shopping I was unaware that he had placed items underneath my purse which at the time was a larger-sized purse and was made of unstructured type material making it easily "moldable" around/over objects. At some point during our shopping he said he had a headache and was going to wait in the car. I finished shopping, paid for my purchases and was stopped at the door as the door greeter saw merchandise sticking out from under my purse, I didn't notice it because of the angle and the way my purse was laying in the seat of the shopping cart. Long story short, I was arrested for shoplifting. I was booked and released. I also had ovarian cancer at the time and was due to start chemo in two days. I became so sick from the chemo I was unable to attend the court date, my adult daughter called and got it rescheduled. I was still far too ill to attend the next and my daughter called the court again. During the course of my illness, I was very sick and hospitalized many times this past year. The good news is that I am doing much better now. The bad news is with my illness and complications, my nursing license didn't get renewed at renewal time AND I never made it to court and my husband told me that he had talked to the court when I was sick and got everything dismissed. Why I ever trusted him, I have no idea, I guess I was sick and vulnerable, but STUPID and NAIVE for sure. I had been saving money here and there to be able to reapply for my nursing license so I could get back to work and finally be self sufficient and be able to leave my husband and divorce him and be out of that nightmare. Well. Last week the sheriff came and arrested me for failure to show/contempt of court on the shoplifting charges that obviously my husband lied about being dismissed last year. I was released and have a court date next week to plead. I don't have an attorney due to having no job/money. I guess I will be given a public defender and I'm thinking my chances of the charges sticking are 50/50. Everything is misdemeanor charges. I also have zero criminal record prior to this mess. In the meantime I have paid for and submitted everything to the BON for license reinstatement. My state background check does show my pending charges. Does anyone have any experience with this and what will happen with the BON? If I can't get my license reinstated, I can't work to support myself and leave my abusive marriage and start life over. Please no judgmental comments, I know how dumb I've been, I have enough embarrassment and shame in this situation.