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So I work Pdn.

Mom makes the formula.

Child has order for Elecare 10 scoops mixed with 1860 water at 80ml/hr via k pump continuous(gtube)

Mom uses a 2000ml plastic container,no label.

The nurses usually just pour the formula into the feeding bag.

Well,it turns out that the new nursing supervisor found out Mom was using Elecare,but also mixing it with regular whole milk instead of water.

Nursing supervisor says every nurse on case is getting written up and reported to BON.

She said nurses should know what they are giving at all times and feeds are no exception.

She said anytime you pour formula(or meds) from an unknown source,and you give it,you take responsibility for whatever is given.

Mom doesn't want us to make the formula.

She said we have to tell mom to pour the formula she made in the bag,doesn't matter if its 3am.

We are not to sign for it either on the feeding schedule sheet.

On 11/16/2015 at 1:42 PM, caliotter3 said:

The time to discover what the deal was, happened when first told that Mom prepared the 'formula'. I never administer a med, a feeding, or a treatment that has been prepared by someone else. That is how I avoid problems such as this.

I can tell you first hand parents will not let you make your own batches of formula when they have it ready in the fridge and have a limited supply that must be used within so many hours.

I do not think the OP is at fault. In an ideal setting this would not have happened but home health is not an ideal setting. Parents go rogue all the time and they purposefully hide things from their nurses as well. They don't really understand that when we find out we could lose our licenses just over the fact we were not I formed.

This really isn't fair.

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