Experience nurses! I need advice. Please!

[VeeRN]

Hello,

So I work as RN at a recuperative care center for the homeless they come here to finish their medication or regain their strength instead of being in the streets and getting worse and having to go to the hospital. I don't provide any medical services. Just complete admission paperwork and initial assessment to make sure they are stable and what is said on the referral matches their VS and assessment. I don't give medication or do wound care. The patients are responsible to take their own meds. There's no doctors. I work with the administrator to approve or deny referrals if we feel that the client won't thrive here. Any medical needs are addressed by the home health agency which is paid for by the hospitals. If the client is unstable or declining they are sent back to the hospital. One nurse left because she feels it's a risk for license because there's not doctor and it's not a medically licensed facility. But like I said there's no medical services being conducted by our nurses. Our nurses assist with ADLs and remind patients to take meds and that's it. It's a place for them to recover, find housing and try to help them transition back into the community. Do you think it's a risk for my license even if I'm not doing anything invasive and it's mostly like case management stuff. Her leaving really scared me and it's my first nursing job. I see nothing wrong with the place I work. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you In advance

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Not giving any legal advice here, but as long as there's policies in place to send someone out if your assessment deems them unstable to be in the facility, not sure you are risking your license.

If the home health agency "runs" the place, and they have an MD who is prescribing medications, I see it as a department of the home health agency.

Additionally, it is akin to assisted living, or a residential care home.