PerfectlyPlump ADN, RN

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    Ugh, the MUSIC!!!

    PerfectlyPlump replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Right now, in a home, I am listening to one, hypnotic line, played over and over...ever since my first
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    "My" girl is all grown up!

    PerfectlyPlump replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    What a beautiful
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    Mom gives meds, feedings,and does all other nurse work??

    PerfectlyPlump replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    This ain't like any case with down time I have EVER had in two plus years of
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    Mom gives meds, feedings,and does all other nurse work??

    PerfectlyPlump posted a topic in Private Duty

    Does anyone know where this topic was addressed before? It is hard to discuss anything in this home. I have picked up that I am to help entertain the patient, but that is all. I am getting very...
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    Sadness after a child passes

    PerfectlyPlump posted a topic in Private Duty

    I am sad, because a former little patient passed. I had not been there for a while. It was very sudden, but as well as I knew him, I feel like I can guess pretty well what went wrong. Now when I...
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    Mom gives meds, feedings,and does all other nurse work??

    PerfectlyPlump replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    Yup. Told her
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    Mom gives meds, feedings,and does all other nurse work??

    PerfectlyPlump replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    All good points. See my pm. Now the clown comment was the most helpful. Humor is so therapeutic. Yes sitting and doing nada IS ten shades of awful... I WAS and do still hope to settle into a...
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    Sadness after a child passes

    PerfectlyPlump replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    Well, thanks. It is often a challenge to be that, isn't
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    Sadness after a child passes

    PerfectlyPlump replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    The child who passed was not even close to vegetative. He had serious defects, some repaired and some not able to be... but he was starting to walk...I would have said he might have had the life of...
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    Does anyone here know Vietnamese culture?

    PerfectlyPlump posted a topic in Private Duty

    Usually will a Vietnamese family have a no- shoes- in -the -house rule? For some reason the agency does not know.... I do plan to bring slippers. Thanks in
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    Does anyone here know Vietnamese culture?

    PerfectlyPlump replied to PerfectlyPlump's topic in Private Duty

    Well, that turned into a whole other subject! So, it came to pass, no shoes. And they are very nice, hospitable and thankful. The house is spotless, and religion is no issue at all. Perks
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    Ugh, the MUSIC!!!

    PerfectlyPlump replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Bubble bubble guppies, bubble bubble guppies!..... Say that 4 times
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I don't do well with long term insanit y, but it's the drug bust I think I'd
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I would enjoy it! Reasons: I probably would have seen it coming and known HE had it coming!...and to me it sounds like EXCITEMENT in a line of work that sometimes, well, isn't
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I keep in my car: TP, paper towels, Clorox wipes for the toilet and faucets, and tissues for my nose. These keep me comfortable. I may be adding house shoes to my
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    That wins the prize for unique work settings. I guess I don't know exactly WHAT qualifies a child for medicaid coverage for
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    Perks of the Job???

    PerfectlyPlump replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Thank you for the way you treated your
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    Perks of the Job???

    PerfectlyPlump replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Two of my client families have been VERY generous with wi if use, cokes, toilet paper, sometimes dinner and even desserts. Most have been flexible with my schedule, and one offered me to stay...
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    If it is a privilege to have nursing care, since it is free to the family, then why do some families tend to begrudge us the reasonable use of paper products or modest amounts of extra electricity? I...
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I think maybe I am being too picky. If they won't use their AC, I won't keep the case...this is Texas! If they won't let me wear my supportive, stabilizing Asics shoes, that is a big negative for...
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    Perks of the Job???

    PerfectlyPlump replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    At one home I am improving, and learning more,
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    Positive things have been coming my way lately. A dad called me Mary Poppins. A family let me use their Kurig all I wanted. Another family served me a steak dinner to enjoy during " down time"....
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I just ignore such rules. It seems like a game of chicken to
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    Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    PerfectlyPlump replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    Isolation IS a drawback to PDN, but Allnurses.com is the answer! I come here and get support, answered to specific question, and lots of good
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    Nurses aren't maids!

    PerfectlyPlump replied to AnaCatRN's topic in Private Duty

    To me, the cleaning and laundry are necessary on the whole, but I, as the nurse, only do them when I have time. When I am at a home for the first time, there is a lot to observe about the patient,...