CloudySue

CloudySue

Pediatric Private Duty; Camp Nursing

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  1. Is becoming a LPN a good career

    CloudySue replied to momma382's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Hey, I'm just offering you advice on how to get others to take you more seriously as a professional. If you choose to be ignorant, people will see you that way. Why would you even be okay with that?...

  2. Is becoming a LPN a good career

    CloudySue replied to momma382's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I would recommend starting a new thread for this question, for best

  3. Jobs that older nurses do. (?)

    CloudySue replied to conroenurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I do private duty nursing, I love it! And I'm not that old! It's really a different world, though, working in a private home. No two environments are the same. Most are warm, safe, comfortable places...

  4. Suggestions...

    CloudySue replied to SDALPN's topic in Private Duty

    Sounds like she gets satisfaction from torturing others. She knows the kid is blind/deaf, so she insists on the most awful videos imaginable? And refuse to let you actually do anything? What do you...

  5. Is Netflix your BFF? What do you watch?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I just finished "Orange is the New Black" season one. I'm so glad the next season is coming out soon, I'm dying to find out what

  6. Camp Nursing as a Student

    CloudySue replied to twss2323's topic in Camp

    At a camp I worked at previously, we had a nursing student (entering senior year) who would basically do triage on the porch of the HC. She had the laptop, a huge jug of water and a big first aid kit....

  7. Do private duty LVN/LPN ever get a pay raise?

    CloudySue replied to Live_Life's topic in Private Duty

    So she agreed to work MORE hours with no extra pay? I thought nurses were supposed to have better-than-average critical thinking skills! Wow, that's one of the worst decisions I've ever heard

  8. Tattle tale? Or my duty to report?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Nah, nothing odd or spooky, the parents are very competent, but controlling. They have insisted from the beginning that they do ALL the trach care, the changes, the stoma care, it's ALL them and it's...

  9. 2014 camp work thread

    CloudySue replied to Alex Egan's topic in Camp

    I finally spoke with the owner of my camp this week to discuss my employment this year. Last year the one thing I often mentioned to her was that I really wanted to be more involved w camp life, to...

  10. Tattle tale? Or my duty to report?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    brittne, thanks for your empathy w these posts. I usually find that the PDN board is a safe place to ask for opinions of all kinds to give me food for thought and enhance my overall professional...

  11. Tattle tale? Or my duty to report?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    The 485 doesn't encompass everything, of course. I think we all agree that a change in status requires a call to the MD. In this particular case, mom wants to be informed of everything before anything...

  12. Tattle tale? Or my duty to report?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    You're making judgements on a situation you were not even there for. The MD assessed the situation from the facts I had presented, and determined the child was in no immediate danger, and it could...

  13. Tattle tale? Or my duty to report?

    CloudySue replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I have no way to contact this nurse. I don't know her personally or have her cell phone. The mom always wants to be contacted first and make the calls to the MD herself. She wants to be texted...

  14. Do private duty LVN/LPN ever get a pay raise?

    CloudySue replied to Live_Life's topic in Private Duty

    Our agency, admitting that their pay and benefits were a major drawback in being their employee, had a form letter for us to sign and send to state legislature, accurately detailing the need for the...

  15. Is becoming a LPN a good career

    CloudySue replied to momma382's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Is this the best writing you can do? You don't present yourself well to people you don't know, certainly not professional. Please read the terms of service here, no cursing, no text speak... Maybe...

  16. Sundowning?

    CloudySue replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    With peds, change in mood to me suggests crankiness r/t nap time or

  17. Hospitalizations and Pdn

    CloudySue replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Private Duty

    I have been to a dr's appt w a client once, I just documented it within my nurse's notes, and I submitted it to the agency and I got paid. I never thought twice about it until this thread. In the...

  18. Home care nurse experiencing verbal abuse by family member of patient.

    CloudySue replied to prada5's topic in Private Duty

    Supervisors work in their employer's best interests, and we don't have many opportunities to parlay with "co-workers" within the company. That's why I love this PDN board, we're all in the trenches...

  19. Nurses aren't maids!

    CloudySue replied to AnaCatRN's topic in Private Duty

    I'd just tell them that their insurance would kick the extra unapproved time back to them and THEY'D be billed for that time. My agency has been really good at educating our parents about not going...

  20. The OTHER nurse cleans... hint, hint

    CloudySue posted a topic in Private Duty

    I work in a home that's quite beautiful, but really cluttered and not very clean. You know the type- a microwave you cringe to put your food into, gross flaky-things on the back rim of the toilet......

  21. Advice needed for PD LPN

    CloudySue replied to Oldfashion's topic in Private Duty

    I've thought on this more, and I've come up w a good analogy. Remember when we were all in high school and we thought we understood what the opposite sex was all about, and we all knew how to drive...

  22. Advice needed for PD LPN

    CloudySue replied to Oldfashion's topic in Private Duty

    Mluvsgnc, please don't take it personally. We're not trying to annoy or belittle anyone here. We offer our warnings because we care, both about you and your clients. We consistently try to protect...

  23. Home care nurse experiencing verbal abuse by family member of patient.

    CloudySue replied to prada5's topic in Private Duty

    Maybe take some time go write a "play by play", detailed narrative of some of the major, crazier

  24. Anyone working Pediatric Home Care?

    CloudySue replied to Baubo516's topic in Private Duty

    I'm sorry you found this information depressing. I don't think that really was the intent. I'm an emotional, hyper-sensitive person by nature and the one thing that I really had to do my first year in...

  25. Home care nurse experiencing verbal abuse by family member of patient.

    CloudySue replied to prada5's topic in Private Duty

    By any chance, did you keep some sort of journal or documentation of her behaviors towards you? Maybe even something you can piece together now by going back to emails/texts w your hubby or ambiguous...