Home Health RNs paperwork out of control

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Does any other home health RN feel that the paperwork required an RN is out of control? In my office the joke with the RNs is that we want a promotion to an LPN! Admission oasis, recerts and resumption of care following hospitalization run 50+ pages. We RNs have all agreed that we can not do a 1st admission in home in less that 90 minutes. Then starts the 90 minute + paper work then MD calls and putting charts together. Divide the time spent doing all that and we're working for $12-$15 /hr. Hmm 50 pages for RN paperwork or 2 pages LPN paperwork.

Why do you think my member name is "chartingtildawn" Been doing this 1 1/2 years. Any others think the same?

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Specializes in LTC.

The paperwork is alot, wowsers !!!

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Could be a definite deterrent to some people taking the job.

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Specializes in telemetry, ICU, cardiac rehab, education.

I was shocked at the paperwork! I was new to home health in January, not to nursing, and just could not believe the time spent with the paper rather than the people. You are correct too about the pay especially when you work prn like me, only paid a flat fee for SOC etc...wowser

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The paperwork is a bummer. The agency I work for pays the nurses hourly so they do get paid for doing the paperwork and nobody is allowed to take it home. The patient load is kept light enough to not have to. There wouldn't be such a turnover of nurses in this field if more agencies did this.

Kyasi

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Paperwork is horrible. When you see 8-10visits a day then come home and type up all notes and not get paid for the paperwork I think I make $10/hr. But in this economy I am afraid to quit before finding another job.

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Specializes in LTC, Med-Surg, IMCU/Tele, HH/CM.

The paperwork is horrible. . . and I am expected to see as many patients as the LPN and do case management. So after I spend hours in the office in the morning (getting sucked into meating with admin, palliative care, team meatings, all staff meetings, every day there is a darn meeting i have to go to. . . ) I go to see my patients, and even tho I get MOST of the charting done in the home there are calls to make, orders to write/fax, files to transfer. . . .

Dont get me wrong this is a refreshing change from my previous position but the last couple weeks I've had 10-12 hour days! Maybe it it because I am still "learning". . . I have only been doing this since May.

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So, my wife is an en in TX and worked for a home health agency for about a year. They were the pay horrible company I have ever seen. They treated.people like crap. Anyway, she left over a.month ago. She turned all her paperwork and we moved away. Now they texted her to come to the office to do corrscrims to that paper work, but she is no longer employed with them and we live 3 hours away. So she told them she would not be able to do it. Now they say that they will report net to the board of nursing if she.does not do it can they force her to do paperwork over a month after quiting and for no pay?.

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Sorry for the typos, I types this on my phone. So my wife is an RN and they want her to do corrections to paperwork. Thank yall for any advice.

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Specializes in ICU.

AMEN! I am new to this, about 4 months and had a nervous breakdown at work this week. The paperwork is simply horreendous. I am sick of spending the time after my daughter goes to bed, before my daughter wakes up in the morning and weekends doing paperwork. With paperwork, it is about 60 hours a week of work. My visits, because they are hospice and palliative, can often last over n hour, and my palliatives are so unstable, 2 days after I am doing a SOC, I am doing a transfer, then a ROC, then another transfer.....

Many nurses have left my company due to the paperwork. I most likely will be the next, unfortunately.

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Specializes in ICU.

Corrections to her paperwork? What kind? As long as nothing is falsifies, if she just didn't do the paperwork to her companies standards, I do not believe there is anything she can be liable for. Insane really. Good for her for moving onward and upward.

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I'm just wondering if anyone is doing the Home Health paperwork on a PC or tablet using HH designed software? If so how is that working for you?

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