Today, i did the unthinkable. I had to take a job at a nursing home for a whopping $15hr. I was amking about $1200 a week. My so called wonderful independent nursing buisness is about dead. I had 2 clients that i bragged about earlier, 1 was a 29 year old that been in a comma for the past 13 years, he was my main income. He died last week. Now, with the 8 year old I care for, she is only left with 8 hrs a week. I can't live on $312 a week. Can you believe a HH agency pays this girl's mother to look after her, doing so, eats up all the available hrs.. Must be nice to get paid for sleeping..
I am on my 5 th day of no gainful employment. I have done everything everybody advised me to do and still..nothing, no bites. With all the new privacy laws, the patients now have to contact me
I have sent out flyers, biz cards, called about everybody in the phonebook, talked with doc pals, with no success. Everybody just tells me they will give out my information. They can't give me the patients names or phone numbers but can tell the patients to call me. There are hundreds of patients, but they have to call me. Most think they can't fire their worthless Pool agency..
Carestar, who is the "overlooker" of all the people that needs HH, says the same thing, add me to the data base or forward my info.. I can't live on maybe.. Im glad and sorry that I only did this for 2 months...I loved it, I will continue to fight, but Im about beat.. Thank You all for the advise..I will survive..hopefully..Brenda
