After 4+ years of Home Health, Driving all over town and not getting paid for it. (I do get milage, but not the time.) I drove over 12K miles in 8 months. est 20K miles a year. My company asks us to call patients the night before, we dont get paid for it, then have my office call me back in the morning and add on a new SOC and I have to switch everything around, Only getting paid per visit, Keeping a so many supplies in my care there is no room for groceries, I paid for my own wound care certification costing over $3500, Staying up late doing paperwork and I feel I'm working all the time, etc, etc... I do absolutely love the idea of home health and I love my pts and will miss them greatly. But, Im officially leaving Home Health and going back to the Hospital. I just accepted a job and going back to (3) 12 hrs shifts and off for 4 days. Yes, it will be a lot of work, but thats why they call it "work". The pay and health benefits are better than HH. I just think its only fair to get paid for my time spent doing pt care. Yes, I used to work HH positions that where salary, hourly and was even given a new company car once. But these HH agencies, or medicare, need to restructure the way they compensate us for our time, work load with the paper work, follow up phone calls and the worst, texting a driving. uuhh!
It's not an easy decision ! Just venting... Wish Me Luck! Im out!
Im out!