Home health and hospice companies

[twokidsmom,rn]

If you work for a company that has both Home Health and Hospice. Are you ever on call for both? The company which I am leaving has the RN case managers on call one night a week and every 7th weekend. When your on call you can see home health and hospice pts. Of course if your on call and a hospice pt has past or if family wants a nurse there you have to go it does not matter where they live too it can be over an hour away. Recently nurses have had a few 2am deaths and had to be at work seeing there own pts the same day? You get paid time a half for the visit time but not for just being around. Also we were told if there is a hospice question or a problem your not allowed to call a hospice nurse you have to call the administrator that is oncall which is not a hospice nurse. Glad I am getting out before that happened to me.

[caliotter3]

I wasn't on call in the regular sense that people are on call. They would go down the list of nurses when they needed somebody. If you weren't on a regular 40 hours a week schedule, they might get to your phone number. I knew when not to answer the phone based on what I wanted or did not want to do at that particular time.

[twokidsmom,rn]

When you are oncall you have to answer the phone. No matter who it is a home health or hospice pt. All case managers have to be on call at night once a week and one weekend every 7 weeks. Not an option.

[caliotter3]

I was not on call. They could not make me answer my phone. I had informed them of my preferences, therefore, it was up to them to honor them, or not. This agency was so known for badgering employees that they felt it necessary to have all of their phone numbers private. I have no idea how they expected an on call nurse to 'know' it was them calling when using blocked numbers.

[GoECU]

I work for a home health and hospice and I'm the home health admissions nurse. We take call once a week for both hh and hospice. I'm on call now! Please nobody die tonight, I'm sleepy!