LVN sup visits

[Mandy LVN]

I am an LVN and have been working in HH for approx 6 months. My question is for the RNs/case managers. Do you actually do sup visits? One of the CMs I work with has never spoken to or seen a patient we've had for more than a month and a half. At a case conference a few weeks a go we (all the nurses) were going thru our census, the ADON would call out a pt name and the CMs were supposed to speak up and respond that that was their patient and tell who the LVN is. He didn't know more than 1/2 of the patients he had. I had to speak up and say that they are ours. Is this a normal occurance? Thanks!!

[paddler]

I always manage to do all of my sup visits every 2 weeks for HHA and 30 days for LPN. However, I have to admit the only reason this is because it was scheduled out for me by the scheduler at the beginning of the cert. If this was not the case I would most certainly have missed many of them, because frankly I have a million other things on my mind than who needs a sup visit and when.

[paddler]

I would like to also add that occasionally I would be surprised in case conference to hear the name of a patient I had been assigned to case manage whom I had never seen or heard of that most likely was admitted by another nurse and I never got report. In those cases I refused to acknowledge "case management" status of them until I saw them. Believe me the office powers that be, tried to get me to assume responsibility but I would have none of it. Imagine having some patient on your "list" with your name on it whom you didn't even know was there and suddenly you are responsible for doing a non-visit (= not paid) discharge because they are going to outpatient PT. Not gonna happen on my watch. Nice try.

[Mandy LVN]

Thanks for your input.