my agency tells me a patient's address and shift & days of a week i work and asks if i can do the case. they don't give me any other information such as age of the patient, what kind of diagnosis the patient has, and what kind of treatments a nurse is likely to give, etc. unless a nurse decide them if she/he accept a case. how is your agency? is your agency the same as mine?
p.s. i have not accepted any patient from this agency yet because the patients that they have introduced me have had addresses too far from my home, unfortunately....
At my agency, I was given a 15 minute class on ventilators and then was told that I could now do ventilator cases. I received a phone call from the recruiter telling me that they had a ventilator case available . I told them No thanks and that I did not feel comfortable with doing a ventilator case. I was told by the recruiter and I quote: "Don't worry about it. Besides this is a private pay patient and we can pay you much more money for you to do this case."
I never got this case but there was one case at my old agency where they paid more because it was two patients and then the family actually paid money out of their pocket directly to the nurse as well. Those nurses were doing quite well from what I could tell.
Both agencies I work with give me the age, diagnosis, & interventions such as trach,vent, g-tube,etc. & then I tell them whether I'm even interested in going for an orientation. If I say I'm interested, they will then email me a copy of the 485 so I have more info before I go to the home. They're also very good about giving me details about the situation in the home before I go out.
Blackcat99
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At my agency, I was given a 15 minute class on ventilators and then was told that I could now do ventilator cases. I received a phone call from the recruiter telling me that they had a ventilator case available . I told them No thanks and that I did not feel comfortable with doing a ventilator case. I was told by the recruiter and I quote: "Don't worry about it. Besides this is a private pay patient and we can pay you much more money for you to do this case."