Re: Dilemma and your opinions
- From: Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:14:13 GMT
In article <ge77g2l8kfv7db4e35973jq4mhobdfhle9@xxxxxxx>,
Starlight <homehealth_rnDELETE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've done home health for almost 10 years, for an agency and as an
Independent Contractor (Medicaid provider program). From my
experience, I can't even take the blood pressure of a patient without
a doctor's order. I do not want to get involved in this neighbor's
situation, but am trying to figure out what the legal implications are
regarding doing a procedure as the nurse of a patient and doing it as
a friend.
Any thoughts?
You can't do it as a friend because you can not do it without your
license. If it was something you could also do had you taken an course
in auto mechanics, then you could do it as a friend. The only reason
they came to you instead of other friends or even a spouse or sibling or
child, is BECAUSE you are a nurse. Thus you HAVE to do it as a nurse.
I would beg off, tell the neighbor you just can't do it legally.
Mumble something appropriate about your relationship being important or
some other platitude depending on HOW important it is and say you can't
do it.
I personally, would be hesitant to even supervise her
technique.
.
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