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  1. Input needed from the more experienced agency nurses please

    ventmommy replied to danarooo's topic in Private Duty

    How can you competently provide care for that baby? What if you had to call 911 and go to the ER while no parent was available? How do you provide a history to the

  2. Perks of the Job???

    ventmommy replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I'm fairly certain (although I could be wrong) that a time card is a legal document. If the time card is signed that you were in the home from 8a-8p on Jan 1 and at 7p the mother goes in to the room...

  3. Input needed from the more experienced agency nurses please

    ventmommy replied to danarooo's topic in Private Duty

    I probably wouldn't last long!! I have no patience for stupidity and nonsense from families or nurses. You won't provide toilet paper, a lamp or a toilet for the nurse? Here's your opportunity for...

  4. Input needed from the more experienced agency nurses please

    ventmommy replied to danarooo's topic in Private Duty

    Regarding medications. A prescription label IS an order and parents can't just give what we want. I can't just give 50mL of Keppra if I wake up and feel like doing that! I can give OTC and PRN meds...

  5. What do you wear to meet a family?

    ventmommy replied to Elle23's topic in Private Duty

    Now that I think about your post I wonder if people are put off by the skirt (but I am NOT saying you should change your ways). I don't have an issue with it but I come from a huge devoutly Orthodox...

  6. Perks of the Job???

    ventmommy replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I could maybe, if I try really, really, really hard, see a case where a family could not afford the expense of buying toilet paper for an additional person but then I feel it's the agency's job to...

  7. What do you wear to meet a family?

    ventmommy replied to Elle23's topic in Private Duty

    I wouldn't be happy with flip flops but I'd be okay with some dressy jeans and a nice

  8. What do you wear to meet a family?

    ventmommy replied to Elle23's topic in Private Duty

    I knew you were talking about a meet and greet. And I know that my agency showed a potential nurse my binder that I made for them before any new nurse came. That's why I said that if you came...

  9. What do you wear to meet a family?

    ventmommy replied to Elle23's topic in Private Duty

    Clean, neat scrubs or dress slacks and a top would be fine. Super dressy in my house makes me think that you didn't read a thing about my family and our cats and dogs!!! Also, if you are wearing...

  10. Ugh, the MUSIC!!!

    ventmommy replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Oh, dear. I may have lost "awesome mom" status. I had 3 lullaby CDs that I rotated but they weren't 24/7. Nurses were allowed to turn them off and turn on the radio (no hip-hop/R&B and no...

  11. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    ventmommy replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I'd really like to make a Top 20 list for some of your families but I can't think of a tactful way for you to hand them out. But I will work on one for you wonderful

  12. Perks of the Job???

    ventmommy replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Our nurses could use our wi-fi. They could eat anything out of the snack drawer or the snack bins in the fridge/freezer. We had a rocking chair and a straight-backed chair. We had a little table...

  13. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    ventmommy replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    Oh, my. Where to start? Really, your phone charger is going to make the electric bill too high? In our house we had a vent running 24/7, a portable vent charging, 3 lithium batteries charging, a...

  14. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    ventmommy replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    We have a no OUTSIDE shoes rule in our house. Nurses were welcome to leave crocs or sneakers here (there was a cubby for each nurse for shoes/sweaters/whatever). If you think about it, wearing shoes...

  15. Wow my patient is crazy!

    ventmommy replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Private Duty

    I can guarantee you that if this child locks you out and pulls out his trach and suffers or dies because of it, the MOTHER will be first one to run to BON and complain that you were negligent by not...

  16. Wow my patient is crazy!

    ventmommy replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Private Duty

    A nurse might have a different opinion but if that is how the child behaves, either the agency helps the mother get her life together and get his behavior under control or they shouldn't staff the...

  17. How To Get Trache and Vent Experience

    ventmommy replied to cook78's topic in Private Duty

    I would be EXTREMELY cautious if I were inexperienced to only take a case with an extremely experienced and comfortable parent that is home 24/7. Parents have to prove real-life competencies before...

  18. Home health pediatric...demanding parent tips??

    ventmommy replied to CrazyCatNurse's topic in Private Duty

    Why isn't the family reading to the child? Everyone knows that there are tons of stories about comatose people recognizing voices. It's the parents' voices that the child needs to

  19. Legal to have 2 patients to one nurse in home care?

    ventmommy replied to luvtwilight's topic in Private Duty

    What is the level of care required? If they are both on vents or even just both trached, I would guess that would not be legal. It certainly would not be safe. If be Kid A was desatting and needed...

  20. Mom has problems getting the right DME

    ventmommy replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    That's sad SDALPN! If you have a family that doesn't have a stash, they can be really hurting by getting wrong order after wrong

  21. odd case

    ventmommy replied to KATRN78's topic in Private Duty

    Not only just the hygiene thing. I kept my son's bed at the perfect height for me. We did have two nurses that raised it but they were both over 6' tall. Even at the height I kept it at, I can't...

  22. How can I get a new case?

    ventmommy replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    I am sorry about your broken bone Texan56! That's an awful thing to have had happen but I guess it got you off of the

  23. odd case

    ventmommy replied to KATRN78's topic in Private Duty

    I had a nurse once that was new to us ask where she should sit (we had two chairs and a rocker/recliner in our son's room so that seemed like a pretty obvious answer to me) and I said "a chair" and...

  24. Rate your nurse? Check out this can of worms...

    ventmommy replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    I think it's total BS to not be honest and upfront. Nikki even posted a comment to the effect of "Oh, I wrote to them about their TOS and they were so great and changed it." Umm, no, that's BS....

  25. Rate your nurse? Check out this can of worms...

    ventmommy replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Oh, so shady... So the woman that originally posted this on the Tracheostomy FB page was *******. It only took me a tiny bit of playing on the google to find that she resides (and is being sued) at...