mileage issue/home health issues

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Hello to all HH Nurses, unappreciated, overworked and underpaid.

Tell me what you think about the mileage with the gas prices soaring. Let me me know about your routes and how you organize yourself in getting your visits completed. Do you work like I do, complete your visit, then chart afterwards? How do you manage to live normally, get pay less and work after hours whether on the phone or charting?:redbeathe

What? Are they providing a company car and paying for the fuel?

If not... :redlight: RUN!!! :redlight:

Specializes in ER, CCU, Geri.
What? Are they providing a company car and paying for the fuel?

If not... :redlight: RUN!!! :redlight:

No company car for us. We get paid .35/mile. They tell us the rest allowed can be deducted on our taxes at the end of the year. I drive an average of 75 miles/day, sometimes in 2 or 3 different counties. It's worse if we have to do supervised visits with back-tracking on the route. How do others setup these direct supervised visits? Of course, we don't get paid from home to the first visit or from the last visit home, either. What are other peoples take on this?

Is anyone willing to share how much they make per visit? I work in southern CA, dont get paid anything for mileage, but make alot of money for each visit...I think! Let me know!

Is anyone willing to share how much they make per visit? I work in southern CA, dont get paid anything for mileage, but make alot of money for each visit...I think! Let me know!

$34/visit,,,,$75/soc add $15 for recert , d/c, roc

:up: I may get scorched from some nurses here....as i too love HH nursing, but I am tired of the outright breaking of Labor laws that some agencies do....my advice is to look at the Dept. of Labor , Wage and Hour website, and if you have questions or concerns call your local regional office. If we put up with what is wrong, when we know it is wrong, it will continue. Put down every minute you spend in working, "after hours" phone calls, and charting, drive time between patients...remember these documents must be truthful...regardless of how you are paid...even if the company is not paying or calculating correctly. Picking your battles is an individual choice.
Specializes in OR, ICU, Tele, Psych, LTC, Palliative.
:up: I may get scorched from some nurses here....as i too love HH nursing, but I am tired of the outright breaking of Labor laws that some agencies do....my advice is to look at the Dept. of Labor , Wage and Hour website, and if you have questions or concerns call your local regional office. If we put up with what is wrong, when we know it is wrong, it will continue. Put down every minute you spend in working, "after hours" phone calls, and charting, drive time between patients...remember these documents must be truthful...regardless of how you are paid...even if the company is not paying or calculating correctly. Picking your battles is an individual choice.

Nope, no scorching from me, only a hearty agreement.:up: It's why I just left nursing. Our central agency was offering our company everything that came down the pike and our company accepted EVERYTHING in order to keep the contract, even if there wasn't staff to deal with it all. Money is the bottom line. Consequently my teammates regularly have 10-15 clients a day, are constantly sick, and work till the wee hours of the morning doing paperwork and faxing. I refused. I asked a friend on the team how many she's usually assigned and she said from 12 to 15 clients a day. That's starting at 7 in the morning and not finishing with the clients until 9 or 10 at night. That is not including the following paperwork. She's just handed in her resignation and has accepted a position at LTC where she'll work her shift and be able to interact with her family and not be called to do visits on her days off. She's done this schedule for the last 3 years, as are some of the other team members. One just came back from an extended leave, with a doc's note that she not have over 4 patients a day. She's regularly being assigned 10 "because there's no one else to do it". This is unacceptable and if nurses continue to put up with these conditions, not being paid for all the work you do, it will continue. Most of you are not unionized in HH and it's showing. You NEED representation! Me? I've gone back to school, yes, at my age and I'm following my bliss. I've started in an enology and viticulture program (wines and vines) and dream of owning a vinyard of my own someday. I may be broke now, but I'm much, much happier. :yeah:All the best to you all.

Sue

Specializes in Oncology, Nursing Home, Management, HH.
Is anyone willing to share how much they make per visit? I work in southern CA, dont get paid anything for mileage, but make alot of money for each visit...I think! Let me know!

I am a RN, work in Oklahoma, salary at $22/hr, 0.53/mile, on-call every 6 weeks with $50 bonus, laptop, company cellphone, mileage from home to first visit (I live 25 miles from office). On-call pay = time & 1/2 plus double mileage from home to pt and back home. In the 4 weeks I have been on call, I have only answered 6 phone calls and never have left my home or left a family function. I'm sure this will not continue (Murphy's Law).:nurse:

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