Maxim Testing

Tigerlily8 · Jul 4, 2014

Hi

Yes I recently interviewed @ Maxim. Their testing was really basic, no need to stress out. They pay only minimum wage for orientation, which I have never before encountered in nursing. The home health division has been accused of healthcare fraud. If you are going to be doing hospital staff relief it should not affect you.

vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN · Jul 4, 2014

I took the maxim tests, they were pretty basic except to me the insulin and diabetes testing was more in depth than I knew off hand. They asked about long acting, short acting and intermediate insulins, their trade and generic names, some I hadn't heard of. Plus their diabetes questions were a little in depth, to me.

JuliaRNMSN · Jul 5, 2014

No problems with the testing from my experience. I would not place any legal confidence in these entities. Maxim, interim, travelmax etc. If you do go with them be aware of your vulnerability when accepting work. Specifically, know exactly what your licensure requires of your activities in the workplace you choose. For example, will you be responsible for the unlicensed staff and LPN's? If so, know the workplace policies and don't accept an assignment if you get to a job and find out more than what you were told by the staffing agency. Once you accept an assignment "begin the work" you are liable. If anyone finds errors in what I have written please let me know.

Areumda · Jul 6, 2014

Thank you all for the feedback. My stress level is down a bit.

caliotter3 · Jul 6, 2014

If you anticipate doing both peds and adult cases, expect to take a separate peds test. Same goes for ventilator. If you don't want to work with vent dependent patients, (or peds), or (adults), you can tell them, but you will be encouraged to take the specific exams anyway. There is also a section just for med administration, and it is also very basic.

vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN · Jul 6, 2014

One more thing to add: I've heard not so great things about maxim from both my old HR dept at a hospital and from a friend who worked for them. But I also have a friend who loves the flexibility of working for them. Best of luck to you!

rnrg · Jul 20, 2014

I am a PDN homecare nurse currently employed by three agencies. Im only active with two. Maxim has solicited me at least 6 times in the past 8 months using indeed. I finally spoke with a HR last week. Im torn about accepting anymore homecare work as I feel I have reached the patient care and skill set epithet of homecare. Plus I never hear anything good about this agency and I am also turned off by the minimum wage pay during orientation and training. Seems kind of iffy.

Tigerlily8 · Jul 20, 2014

I personally consider Maxim to be rather sleazy and do not want to work for them.

rnrg · Jul 20, 2014

You know what. I think im going to pass on the offer. I just dont like to hear that employers are ok with being less than sub par. I've paid my debts to the PDN world. Im only going forward from here on out. Thank you for your input.

TriciaJ, RN · Jul 21, 2014

With me, they pulled a bait-and-switch with scheduling. After I had gone through all the testing, interviewing and vetting, and completed the hospital orientation, I was told by the facility that "agency nurses are required to work 2 weekend days per week". When I complained to the agency, they played stupid and did nothing to resolve this. It's obvious they were in cahoots with the hospital. There were other Maxim nurses orienting the same time I was.

So they let me go through the whole process without letting me know this simple fact. It was a deal-breaker for me and I told the hospital and Maxim to go fly a kite.

Nalencars · Aug 14, 2014

Stay away from Maxim,did interview ,filled a lot of paperwork ,had an orientation and had to sign for 5 hours minimum wage ,and I spent there at least 7 hours and I never got paid for my orientation .They called to cancel the job and now they are calling again to go to another interview ,the recruiter doesn't have no idea that I already had all the interview process .... and I declined the offer ,not going to waste time and gas going to their orientation again .