I am the Staff Supervisor with a small home care agency where we provide personal care (ADL) services and companion services to help client's stay in their homes as long as possible. The majority of our clients are Medicaid. The companion service is ...
henayneiCLNC replied to allevi's topic in Relations
my admin remembered, bless his soul, and got me a Gevalia Hot Chocolate :) We are a VERY small personal care agency.... 60-70 clients avg; 40-60 aides avg - majority of services paid by Medicaid... nearly 60% of revenue goes to aide payroll :) I was ...
this is for north carolina only - you must research the statue statutes and nurse practice in your own states.... in north carolina we have 4 skill categories that are able to provide aide services in the home: companion - no hands on services person...
henayneiCLNC replied to henayneiCLNC's topic in General Nursing
:) this isn't a hospital and according to the Medicaid oversight organization anyone can give an order to us and anyone can take the order ... literally... our staff coordinator or Admin can take an order (neither is licensed) and anyone at the MD of...
henayneiCLNC replied to henayneiCLNC's topic in General Nursing
Thanks - I'm looking for this kind of input as I'm working for a small Personal Care Agency that just started up last year. The owner wrote up policies from his business and administrative POV. He is also uncomfortable with anything being "standard" ...
Who signs off on orders?? I have long been under the (possible) misconception that a nurse:nurse: was required to sign off on orders received, verbal or written, from physician/physician office. It has been my understanding that this is standard nur...
henayneiCLNC replied to cookie102's topic in Home Health
I haven't worked for them in a few years, since they split and sold part of their business to IntelliStaf. However, the folks I did work with were the same ones I'd work with before as Gentiva bought out Olsten Kimberely and most of the staff was ret...
henayneiCLNC replied to Elektra6's topic in Home Health
we have a client who actually smoked marijuana in front of one of our aides. we inquired as to what we needed to do through our legal department. we were counselled that is was not necessary to report this to the police and in fact the police would n...
henayneiCLNC replied to stevesohiorn's topic in Entrepreneurs
I was told by ARC that one can't charge for the classes above and beyond the cost of the class (DVD, materials, rentals, etc) to the students. Your employer CAN pay your for your time, but that is the *only* way you can get paid for offering the cour...
henayneiCLNC replied to RNPATL's topic in North Carolina
I am in quite the same predicament, been an RN for 23 years and due to severe back injury am unable to do direct patient care or accept a position, such as in nursing administration, where I might be reasonable expected to take up the slack when they...