CloudySue

CloudySue

Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing

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  1. am I a nurse or home maker???

    CloudySue replied to jack1339's topic in Private Duty

    I have a case where the older 5-year-old sister has some behavior issues and craves attention, and melts down quickly. I'm on the overnight shift and she sometimes wakes up looking for her parents....

  2. Shaken Baby Syndrome

    CloudySue replied to RegenerativeNurse's topic in Private Duty

    Have you spent time w this child yet or are you just reading up on the 485? Sometimes dx'es have been mostly resolved or controlled by the time we start caring for the child. You can certainly...

  3. Volunteering for the weekend for Scout trip?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your responses! Any comments regarding the legal aspect of passing meds? Am I working under the direction of the prescribing doctor if I give scrip meds, or am I just the "First Aider",...

  4. Fired from 1st Camp job

    CloudySue replied to Isitpossible's topic in Camp

    Thanks CampNurse, that sounds like a sensible answer that I can live

  5. New PDN; sent in papers now what?

    CloudySue replied to ceebeejay's topic in Private Duty

    New nurse? BRAND new graduate alone w a trach/vent pt? Seems like the makings of a horror story/law suit. I've heard enough stories to

  6. She won't give me a chance!

    CloudySue replied to Elle23's topic in Private Duty

    My 22-month-old client has been great since birth, but recently wakes up cranky as anything in the night and won't let me console her. Mom don't play that! So we just let her cry it out....

  7. How do you do nights?

    CloudySue replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    I work mostly 8 hr shifts, but 2 of them are 10 hr and I do have the occasional 12 hr shift. I get home around 7:30a and I march upstairs, pop my melatonin, get ready for bed and climb right in. No...

  8. She won't give me a chance!

    CloudySue replied to Elle23's topic in Private Duty

    Any way you can just have a frank talk w the mom? You can keep it lighthearted and remind them that while nurses are there, "You're off the clock!" Another thing I say is that I remind them that the...

  9. Family is trying to kill me!

    CloudySue replied to eeffoc_emmig's topic in Private Duty

    Cats are awesome, especially a big lover-boy, like the one who was nuzzling me this evening. I don't understand how cats can be so bothersome to people (unless its an allergy). The majority of cats...

  10. Family is trying to kill me!

    CloudySue replied to eeffoc_emmig's topic in Private Duty

    I'm really afraid of dogs, especially big, loud, jumping ones. I went to a new place that had two. It was such a new case they didn't have their case "info" sheet done up yet, the one w family...

  11. The reason I want to leave PDN (vent)

    CloudySue replied to SDALPN's topic in Private Duty

    Last year my college ct w SMA was in the ICU for 10 days while she struggled to breathe w a simple URI. She was unable to simply cough up secretions, and was cougholated around the clock. For a while...

  12. Diagnoses you've seen?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I thought of a few more: hyperinsulinism (post pancreatectomy), shaken baby syndrome, bronchiopulmonary displasia,

  13. tylenol?

    CloudySue replied to abcnurse77's topic in Camp

    Kids really don't come in asking for any med in particular. This is the usual dialogue, with very little deviation from the script: "My ________ hurts." "What does your mom give you at home for...

  14. Diagnoses you've seen?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    At first I thought you were saying the client's parents were messy, because Flylady (an online housecleaning guru) calls it CHAOS syndrome (Can't Have Anyone Over) when the house is too much of a...

  15. Give meds or not?

    CloudySue replied to abcnurse77's topic in Camp

    I'm interested too. Since its September, and camp is 9 months away, I'm inclined to think this is in regards to something left over from this past summer, and someone's got a lot of 'splainin' to

  16. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

    CloudySue replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

    LTC is great in that you have a number of residents that you get to know medically and personally over time. You know their baselines and can see for yourself any change of status and you witness the...

  17. Perks of the Job???

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Geez, one time the family let me go 10 minutes early and I had already filled out my time sheet, so they said not to worry about it, just enjoy getting home early for a change. I felt so dirty, and...

  18. no dr's order

    CloudySue replied to abcnurse77's topic in Camp

    Well, as an avid fan of Da**YouAutocorrect.com, I know it could come out of your phone a lot worse!

  19. no dr's order

    CloudySue replied to abcnurse77's topic in Camp

    Oh Al, the irony of misspelling "intelligence" AND "virtue" while doling out this particular advice. LOL! Love ya,

  20. Ugh, the MUSIC!!!

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    One of my clients appeared on Umizoomi! She was a child actor! I never saw the episode though. She was also on Sesame Street

  21. Ugh, the MUSIC!!!

    CloudySue posted a topic in Private Duty

    This is just a vent, there is no solution for this... Overnight peeps... do any of your clients have the same playlist of music (lullabies, in my case) that runs over and over and over? Every night?...

  22. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    CloudySue replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    My very first case was a girl whose Spanish/English speaking mom nitpicked and yelled a lot. She was very intolerant of the first-day learning curve. I wonder if it's a cultural thing. (Note: not...

  23. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

    CloudySue replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

    I've been in PDN for three years, before that a year of LTC. I'm a mid-life career changer, I used to be an elem teacher! I quit LTC for the same reasons others have mentioned, however I'm grateful in...

  24. "My" girl is all grown up!

    CloudySue posted a topic in Private Duty

    Several years ago I started working w a lovely teen girl who has a disease in the MD spectrum who uses a wheelchair. She's smart, pretty, funny, and we established a fantastic rapport within days of...

  25. Anyone have some cheese?

    CloudySue replied to eeffoc_emmig's topic in Private Duty

    I'm w the best company in our area and I have not had a pay raise since my start 3 years ago. They are liberal w overtime so I give myself a raise by taking an extra shift