Milage, Az HH CM

Isabelle49 · Mar 2, 2011

I need to know if the HH companies are no longer offering milage here in the state of Arizona or if it's just this one company that I am interviewing with. This is a PRN position with expected twenty visits which kind of makes the PRN part a question. Milage is paid after twenty-five miles. Need information. Thanks.

In my neck of the woods, the first 15 miles is not paid, or the distance to the office if you go there first. Then the trip home after your last visit is not paid either. Does this company expect you to do 20 visits a week as PRN? If so, that is not PRN. I am PRN where I work as a field RN, and I usually see approx 13 - 16 patients per week, but this is by my choice. There is no minimum number of visits required to be PRN. Of course, if a person never accepts an assignment, they'll stop calling.

If the company you are talking about requires 20 visits to be PRN, they are just trying to get out of paying benefits to a part-time employee. Find another company.

shondaRN · Mar 2, 2011

In my neck of the woods, the first 15 miles is not paid, or the distance to the office if you go there first. Then the trip home after your last visit is not paid either. Does this company expect you to do 20 visits a week as PRN? If so, that is not PRN. I am PRN where I work as a field RN, and I usually see approx 13 - 16 patients per week, but this is by my choice. There is no minimum number of visits required to be PRN. Of course, if a person never accepts an assignment, they'll stop calling.
If the company you are talking about requires 20 visits to be PRN, they are just trying to get out of paying benefits to a part-time employee. Find another company.

I agree 20 visits a week is not PRN.

DesertwindRN, ADN, RN · Mar 5, 2011

That is twenty miles EACH visit that is not counted before they pay milage. I have worked HH as a CM before and know that you end up working sixty or more hours and get paid for forty------never will accept a salary position in nursing again. I loved the work and thought if I worked PRN I could make it work but then this company wanted me to comit to twenty visits a week------. Twenty-nine is full time. The milage was the last straw. I accepted on Thursday and on Friday remembered I had not asked about milage and called and was given the bad news. I really wanted to return to HH so I spent the weekend trying to make some sense of it all. By Sunday I wanted to vomit. On Monday I watched the clock tick for an appropriate time to call and decline the already accepted position--------tick, tick-------(nine am too early------that office is very busy with problems from weekend thought I------very busy-----tick tick------0931-----make call------------sat on sofa with blanket over head--( I am a NICU nurse, you know)----little doggies very worried about me-------by afternoon I can breath normally again.

BrookeeLou_RN · Mar 10, 2011

Not a good agency.. keep looking