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I am considering applying to Amedysis for a home health position. I've been an LPN for 16 years with phlebotomy and IV experience, some cardiac telemetry.

Recently worked in a personal care home for a year.

Has anyone worked for Amedysis and did you like working for them? Are they good employers who truly care about their staff??

Do you know if LPN's have to do a lot of heavy patient lifting?

Thanks

I am updating my resume to apply for a Clinical Director for Amedysis. Quality care begins at the top. That is unfortunate that one of the Managers did not help when there were sick calls. I wonder who oversees her? Does she still work for Amesysis? There are nurses working in the field that have no business being there. Shame on them. I take pride in my work and always go the extra mile for the patients.

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i was a doo for this company. while there are many good people who truly place the patient first working for this company, the infrastructure conflicted with my personal beliefs, values, and integrity. as far as a good place to work, i think it totally depends on the position you hold. the compensation is great for leadership roles, but the demands and expectations, in reality, are that you must make amedisys the priority of your life. for me, it was all-consuming, and it changed my life in a negative way for the 13 months that i endured. it did give me perspective on what is important to me and what i don't want to do. the extremely for-profit corporate world of amedisys is not for me. i would tend to agree with the above responder when she said run!!!!!

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i was a doo for this company. while there are many good people who truly place the patient first working for this company, the infrastructure conflicted with my personal beliefs, values, and integrity. as far as a good place to work, i think it totally depends on the position you hold. the compensation is great for leadership roles, but the demands and expectations, in reality, are that you must make amedisys the priority of your life. for me, it was all-consuming, and it changed my life in a negative way for the 13 months that i endured. it did give me perspective on what is important to me and what i don't want to do. the extremely for-profit corporate world of amedisys is not for me. i would tend to agree with the above responder when she said run!!!!!

there's no voice like that of experience. thanks for sharing.

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

I'm amazed you lasted 13 months! How long did it take you to recover? Or have you?

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The compensation package wasn't easy to give up, but when I started having anxiety and depression, my husband said it was time to move on. After several months, I would definitely say I have recovered. I've had stressful jobs before, but never a job that consumed so much. I will never forget the lessons I learned, though.

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Mother Theresa

One of the most fraudulent agencies I worked for had pictures of religious icons all over the place and each meeting started with "prayer". The owner claimed to be very religious and sang religious songs and prayed in the office out loud frequently.

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Specializes in ER, L&D, ICU, LTC, HH.

Thanks for all the replies. I am 4 weeks into the job at this point and almost got discharged Friday for expressing my opinion on the use of RN's within the company. I am basically an Oasis nurse and they are so picky with the charting and I have been doing Medicaid patients not Medicare before in my old job. Needless to say I am having to learn a lot. I have been sick the last two weeks with a Lupus Flare IE partial GI obstruction the doctors where pouring Mag Citrate down me and doing CT Scans (lol I would see a patient and race to the nearest gas station to be ableto go to the next pt) and showed up for a PI meeting where I saw people written up for typos. I told their PI person I was about to buy a horse and leather bag, hang a shingle and see patients the way they should be. I don't understand these agencies not using a computer to it's full extent; such as it is from the dark ages not to have a spell check on a computer program, not have a disk drive so I can load my medical book disk, transferring charts to corporate for review for 7 days which deletes them off your computer and if you have to see the patient again you have no access to the assessment on the Oasis you did. Jeepers peepers I am gonna have to learn to keep my mouth shut; I am way too practical when it comes to things like this. But it is upsetting to pull up a 485 and it have nothing on it 5 days after you completed it. There are so many positive changes I would make if I could. The biggest issue I see is RN=way to comply with Medicare. RN will never mean good continuity of care which would cut loses even more than just being an Oasis Nurse. Oh well I am 50 years old now and way to old to grab the nursing world my the horns like I did when I was young and make positive changes. I truly feel for the young RN's coming out of school now they will never experience real nursing like I had an opportunity to do when I was young where the patient is actually the most important thing being discussed not whether Medicare is going to pay, where nurse so and so made a typo using a really bad computer program etc. :twocents: You get the point I could go on and on. At least while I am with that patient for an hour or two they know someone really cares and I guess that makes up for all the BS I am dealing with.

Thanks guys for being there. :yeah: We have a really good group on this board,

~Willow

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Specializes in ER, L&D, ICU, LTC, HH.

PS forgot a major point I was going to share. I am not Catholic I just happen to really like Mother Theresa. I am actually a Wiccan Priestess. I am not really fond of any particular religion being shoved down anyone's throat no matter what it is. :twocents:

~Willow

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

Well, you can't say you weren't duly warned. Neither can I, and I still worked for them anyway. Look at it this way, if you survive six months at Amedisys, other HHAs will snatch you up in a heartbeat and you can write your own ticket after that. Good luck to you, Willow.

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I have had many of my co-workers leave to go to Amedysis. I tell them to check this site first, but they never listen!! :smackingf

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Thanks for the info everyone! I listened to you all and did not apply for the job!:yeah:

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YES! They will send you out on pts that in any other logically run business would be no less than a two person assist. Pts with severe ataxia, hemiparesis and hemiplegia. You will be required to ambulate these patients by yourself, and get these patients into and out regular showers and tubs that have not been equipted with proper safety devices. Management does not care that this is dangerous, only that they can bill for the visit.

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