Gave my patients away

[lpn954]

I was working home health and my agency gave my patients away because I was falsely accused of making a med error. I was not fired, and they say they will consider me for future patients. Being left with no patients is not fair IMO, but it is what it is. I want to continue in home health, but its hard financially when you lose patients for various reasons. I do love it though, the flexible hours , short visits, and everything is great and its hard to picture doing anything else. It is hard financially now as I have 0 income. I am looking for home health jobs but from past experience I know it will most likely take months to build up my patient load. There are dozens of agencies out there but a lot are not hiring, or are hiring, but have very little work.

How can I over come this obstacle and still do home health? Perhaps for now I should do something for income temporarily like drive for Uber? Just wondering what others have done to get past the challenges home health brings.

[caliotter3]

When I ran into long term unemployment that was approaching two years, I left the area. Obtained two jobs as soon as I applied in the new area. However, that was in a time when there was available work. The situation is now how I described in your other thread on the same topic. If you want to work as a nurse in home health, you have to keep on applying. After you have applied, call them back on a regular basis to follow up. If you exhaust the home health field, then take a job in long term care, but continue to follow up with your hh applications. Don't give the agencies a chance to round file your application. BTW, you will probably never get another case from the agency that gave your previous work to others. Don't put yourself in a position of giving them the satisfaction of keeping you from supporting yourself. That was a very dirty thing that they did to you.