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Specializes in med surg.

I had an interview a few weeks ago with a home health agency and was hired but the orientation would have been two hours away from my house (the interview was 20 min away). I received a call last week from the HH agency stating "We will be having orientation closer to your house would you like to attend"? Of course I said yes. So I was suppose to start orientation tom but I called the co today to ask a ? and was told "oh one of the days has to be at our office two hours away can you make it? I tell them no not this week and before I could tell them I would go up next week they told me never mind I am not needed. and then got an email telling me thank you for you app but at this time you do not meet our needs. REALLY! Why are some co so dishonest?

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Specializes in Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU.

They want to see flexibility. A friend of mine had the same thing happen a few years ago.

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Specializes in med surg.

I understand that. But if they called me a few days ago I would have been able to do it. But not 24 hrs before. The excuse that they used had also made me think that they are not a very organized company

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Specializes in Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU.

They lose a lot of great nurses that way. Its not your fault. But they do that to test flexibility. The nurse I know had 30 years of picu/nicu experience!! She was turned down. The person who turned her down was barely a college grad.

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Specializes in med surg.

Some times when one door closes another will open. That's how I look at it.

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Specializes in Peds(PICU, NICU float), PDN, ICU.
Some times when one door closes another will open. That's how I look at it.

I almost said that in my last post. Good luck with everything. That other job will be someone elses problem!

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Specializes in med surg.

Yup it will. I am waiting to hear back from another HH co that interviewed with last week

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agencies that have sub agencies or other branches usually have one central home office where they do all of their new hire processing. it isnt unusual and generally just one or two trips are necessary.

it would have been nice had they given you enough time to plan for the trip. nothing new that a home health isnt organized with new hires.... but that doesnt mean that they will be disorganized in the clinical aspect of it. every one i've worked at did not have a good orientation program --from losing my application to adding me to the insurance, on down to adding my name and number to the phone list. however, most of them did at least satisfactory in taking care of their patient's needs.

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Specializes in med surg.

That's what I was thinking. If they are that disorganized now then what would happen when I start to see pt's.

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