HisTreasure

HisTreasure BSN, RN

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  1. Sleeping Nurse = No Agency?

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    We have (my husband and I on separate occasions) caught one of our night nurses sleeping. The first time it happened, DH saw her on the baby monitor (I was already knocked out!) and he didn't say...

  2. What's a decent place to work before/while in Nursing school?

    HisTreasure replied to Want2BeeRN's topic in General Students

    Is your hospital currently hiring PCTs? As a student you may be able to be employed as a tech which will bring a lot of useful experience and opportunities to learn. You will already have a working...

  3. The worst job you had before becoming a Nurse?

    HisTreasure replied to Want2BeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Worst job was as a child care associate. I loved the kids- always had a tender place in my heart for them, always will, however, this center was poorly managed and inadequately maintained. I didn't...

  4. How long would you commute?

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    I have a job opportunity for a private client about 1 hour away. Part of it thinks it would be great because 3 shifts would be over $800 a week but I would be commuting 6 hours a week, which I'm not...

  5. How long would you commute?

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    I'm no longer in Atlanta. I'm back in NY. I have to update my info. However, if I were still in Atlanta I wouldn't bat my eye at an hour's drive because most commutes are at least that, especially if...

  6. How much do you make?

    HisTreasure replied to middleagednurse's topic in Private Duty

    $24.31 for low tech/adults, $33.71 for high tech pediatrics. No benefits and no taxes taken out (independent). However, I rarely work PDN. I work in ALF as a supervisor making $20.50 with benefits....

  7. What's your nursing kryptonite?

    HisTreasure replied to ktliz's topic in General Nursing

    Emesis and flying sputum. Emesis engages my gag reflex EVERY time, even if I eternalize it; and adult sputum with the open trachs that they insist on coughing across the room and everywhere...

  8. Random Funny

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    I have been prescribed diazepam as a muscle relaxant for some time. I prefer it to others because I don't have a lot of the negative side effects I had on other musculoskeletal meds and I am able to...

  9. Night Shift PDNs....

    HisTreasure replied to eeffoc_emmig's topic in Private Duty

    Sometimes, if you want good help, you need to go a bit out of your way. If it's affordable, and won't be a major inconvenience to the family. Most things you listed are not major inconveniences to...

  10. How much personal info do you share with parents?

    HisTreasure replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Private Duty

    I really like you SDALPN! You have this PDN thing DOWN! I had a mom rearrange an entire feeding schedule so that the last feed of the shift ended at least an hour before the end of the shift so that...

  11. How much personal info do you share with parents?

    HisTreasure replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Private Duty

    I have been chatty in the past and it has backfired. I knew so much about the family and their lives, their financial struggles, their marital problems, and dysfunctional in-laws, that I felt...

  12. FB group has me so sad...

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    I was invited to join a group on FB for parents of children with special needs. This group was back-to-back inflammatory messages about home nurses, LPNs vs RNs vs Sucky NEW RNs, etc. It was so...

  13. FB group has me so sad...

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    I had to leave the group after less than an hour of browsing. I am on foster parent support groups and one is for foster parents of special needs/medically fragile children. That's going to have to be...

  14. Paranoid parents

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    Don't you hate it when a bad nurse (or even a few of them) makes the whole profession look bad? I don't know if this family is paranoid or really had some bad experiences, but I kind of think it's the...

  15. Paranoid parents

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    There are no supervisors. We're all independents. There is the "Primary" who established and maintains the PA (the day nurse) but she isn't the actual

  16. Paranoid parents

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    You raise valid considerations. I can't speak to whether anyone else has addressed these issues with mom. I haven't personally, but I don't know mom very well. When she was venting about the sleeping...

  17. Paranoid parents

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    I don't plan on going back on the case but I may. Money is money. It's just really uncomfortable there... even though I never actually saw a camera... She has a bunch of stuffed animals in and around...

  18. Have you ever been asked to falsify notes?

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    Has a family ever asked you to chart more interventions than required or done during your shift in order to make the patient appear more fragile than than they really are so they won't "lose hours" or...

  19. Have you ever been asked to falsify notes?

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    I recall having a parent ask me to be "very detailed" about my interventions. This was some years back. I did as I was asked, as I am always open to constructive criticism. A day or so later she came...

  20. Just a tee-hee moment

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Emergency

    Yesterday, against my will, my job called EMS because I was having a full blown asthma exacerbation after two doses of albuterol inhaler. I refused transport to ED, and the paramedic (because they...

  21. Just a tee-hee moment

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Emergency

    Seriously!!!!! And it took him two attempts for a barely competent job. When I was roomed in ED I was advised the one he got in was kinked! LOL! The otherwise super rad medic said I was a hard stick....

  22. Well, don't come back

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    Hmmm, this is a new one. At least for me. My cousin has been doing independent PDN for the past 8-9 years. She's very savvy and usually diversifies her cases so she isn't dependent on one client...

  23. Well, don't come back

    HisTreasure replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    I sincerely hope she does, too. She actually mentioned going back to reapply with some of the agencies, including the infamous "M" because she has a family to support. However, those who live in NY...

  24. "Wasteful Nurses"

    HisTreasure replied to eeffoc_emmig's topic in Private Duty

    I had a mom that counted everything. Think I spoke of her before. ;-) She bought the "select-a-size" paper towels and in addition to counting how many paper towels we used, she had it written how many...

  25. WWYD: Caregiver not home at end of shift?

    HisTreasure posted a topic in Private Duty

    You are on a 12 hour shift. Primary caregiver has an emergency at 2 PM. Your shift is over at 7 PM and PCG is not back, no nursing coverage is expected until 11 PM. Another competent adult is in the...