Private Duty Nurse

PRIVATE DUTY NURSE Private Duty Nurse gives the following advantages: 1. The chance to see life as it really is, to study human nature and know at close range interesting people of different nationalities, cultures, religion, and status. 2. The opportunity to make real friends through close association with the patient and family. 3. The chance to travel and see the world. 4. The ability to own time, adjusts work and private life satisfactorily, and direct off- duty time into enjoyable leisure. 5. The chance to keep abreast with new knowledge and procedures which provide an exciting, stimulating experience, with infinite variety of problems to solve and personal satisfaction to be gleaned. 6. The challenge of giving his/ her best in her in providing care and having the satisfaction of seeing its results. Disadvantages of Private Duty Nurse: 1. Some private duty nurses create a situation in which the patients become totally dependent on them. 2. Many private nurses graduated so long ago and have not upgraded their knowledge and skills 3. There are not enough nurses for evening and night shifts, for holiday, week- ends and vacation periods. 4. Being alone practitioner minimizes opportunity for developing good relationships with other hospital personnel. 5. Some private Duty Nurses resent supervision by hospital staff. 6. Little assistance is given by the head nurse when the patient is critically ill and the private duty nurse needs help in giving treatment or in changing the position of the patient. The private duty nurse sometimes goes without the meals because the head nurse does not arrange the relief when the patient cannot be left alone. 7. Private duty nurses have very little or no participation in professional activities. If they ever do, they do so on their own time and expense. 8. Nurses who are very experienced and well-qualified receive the same fees as the new graduates. 9. Private duty nurses face problems in private practice being independent contractors and there is greater need for liability insurance. 10.There are no retirement, insurance and medicare benefits unless the private duty nurses provide these for themselves.

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They often work alone, and must therefore possess maturity, experience and wise judgment. Practice focuses on promotion, protection and supervision of worker’s health within the context of a safe and healthy working environment Occupational Health nursing is autonomous and nurses make independent nursing judgments in providing health services. Since occupational health nurses work alone in situations where they may have to give immediate care to patients with serious injuries, they need to be fully informed about their legal responsibilities. They must make use of whatever first aid and nursing measures they judge necessarily, bearing in mind their professional limitations.

Qualifications of Industrial Nurse: An industrial or Occupational Nurse must: • Has a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing • Requires special Skills (ability to take and read ECG, eye screening, audiometer testing, laboratory tests, and X-ray). A good preparation is a year or more in emergency nursing, such as actual nursing experience under the direction of a skillful nurse in this field. • Must know company policies on personnel, insurance benefits, sick leave, pay rates, health programs, medical matters and records