OJ_RN

OJ_RN has 12 years experience and specializes in Community/Public Health, Geriatrics.

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1. Feedback Needed on Measuring Workload in Home Health Nursing

   OJ_RN replied to OJ_RN's topic in Home Health

   Last call for feedback on the wording of home health workload questions before we start pilot testing the survey.

2. Feedback Needed on Measuring Workload in Home Health Nursing

   OJ_RN replied to OJ_RN's topic in Home Health

   Hi Karen, I so appreciate your feedback. Questions 8 & 9 have been used to get a sense of staffing and skill mix in a patient care unit, and the results are later aggregated to the organization level. In the example you gave, of a large agency wi...

3. Feedback Needed on Measuring Workload in Home Health Nursing

   OJ_RN replied to OJ_RN's topic in Home Health

   Thank you for the great suggestions NRSKarenRN! In another area of the survey we ask if nurses are working full-time, part-time, per-diem, benefits and retirement. I will definitely incorporate some of your other suggestions (exempt/salaried, per cas...

4. Typical work week schedule?

   OJ_RN replied to AshleyNicoleH's topic in Home Health

   In the non-profit VNAs where I have worked (in Connecticut) it was typically expected that you would work Monday-Friday and every 3rd or 4th weekend, that would entitle us to one extra weekday off. Otherwise we used vacation or paid time off if we ne...

5. Feedback Needed on Measuring Workload in Home Health Nursing

   OJ_RN replied to OJ_RN's topic in Home Health

   Excellent point. We are interested in all Home Health Nurses, including those providing extended care or private duty. Is there a specific question about extended care nursing that you think would be important to include? Would it be helpful to ask d...

6. Feedback Needed on Measuring Workload in Home Health Nursing

   OJ_RN posted a topic in Home Health

   Dear home health nursing colleagues, We would love your input on the wording of some questions about staffing and workload that will be included in a large survey of 300,000+ nurses later this year. The survey will be sent to RNs working in all pract...