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Topic: how are you guys getting dressings change when using infuserve?

radfaraf
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Member # 11909

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Home care companies won't help unless I get the meds from them and then charge 4 times more total per month than the rocpehin and supplies alone.

Local hospital won't help because my doctor doesn't have admitting privileges.

Going to try traveling nurse associations, but I don't need to pay extra for using their time for come to me since I'm not housebound!

I did them at home with a nursing student + mother and ended up with an infection when I mistakely thought it was leaking rocephin (Interestingly it was like this since day one, so I don't think I really caused the infection myself). I left it like that for a few days before eventually getting the line pulled at a hospital. I need someone responsible to help so I don't have my doctor refuse the IV.

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sammy
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Member # 13952

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Do you have any RN friends that might be willing to help? You should ask. Dressing changes are simple, it would only take about 15-30min of their time per week.

If that is not an option do you have a trustworthy friend that is willing to learn? If so you can have the home health nurse teach them.

Do you have a local LLMD or cooperative primary care physician? You could see if their nursing staff would be willing to do the dressing changes for you. They could bill it to the insurance company as a nurse visit. This way you would not need to pay a copay for a doctor visit.

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radfaraf
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Member # 11909

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Visiting nurse company will do it for $175. Will try local general physicans office and see what they say. I am too far from the llmd to have them do it and I suspect the nursing student thing won't be enough accountability for them which is understandable as they (nursing student) should have sent me to the hospital themseleves as the infection was obvious in retrospect.

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