Homecare Nursing Training compensation?!?!

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I have a question for my fellow Nurses, The agency I work for wants me to do insulin injections. I am a New Grad Nurse and I was taught not to do anything without training. Can they get away with not paying me for the hour of training? I want to ask you all before my agency tries to say that they can't pay me for the training. I do realize I know how to give insulin injections but I am am not doing ANYTHING without someone training me. What is your opinion on the situation? Thank you!

Specializes in Home Health, MS, Oncology, Case Manageme.

You are expected to know basic clinical skills like injections but if you have any questions, you can always ask your clinical supervisor about it. They are expected to pay for training/seminars/skill fairs for more difficult things like NPWT (wound vac) or PleurX, but it should take less than 5 minutes to teach even a new grad how to give an insulin injection.

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Specializes in LTC (LPN-RN).

Yes basic skills are taught during clinicals. A shame this was not the case for the OP.

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