LVNblue8

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1. Paid by the case and not hourly

   LVNblue8 replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Home Health

   This sounds like a shady company. HH can be enjoyable but the agency can make or break your experience. We do have to bill whether a visit is hands on or not but they are all considered skilled if...

2. What's wrong with California??

   LVNblue8 posted a topic in LPN to RN

   A few years ago when I was first looking into continuing my education, there were plenty of RN to ADN programs. Now it seems in California they are only offering the so-called LVN career ladder or 30...

3. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

   LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

   The agency does do the scheduling! They scheduled me for these visits! But because of the grueling nature of twice daily visits every day of the week indefinitely, I looked for someone who could do...

4. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

   LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

   No, I'm not speaking as if my role is the case manager. I'm speaking as if my role is the visiting LVN according to the way my agency operates. The case managers here do the SOC and ROCs but are...

5. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

   LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

6. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

   LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

   I agreed with this at first, which was why I did not push back when she was starting to expect work even when I didn't need the coverage. But, at the end of the day, it's not that she was doing me a...

7. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

   LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

   I just feel like it needs to be said one last time: the agency has never asked her to do these visits that I'm referring to. The agency views them as my visits. I'm not butting in on her relationship...

8. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

   LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

   Omg this is kafkaesque!!! Yes, she works for the agency and I have ZERO control over HER assignments. If she asks me to cover one of her patients, I would ONLY be coverage, even if it was long term....

9. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

   LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

   I did talk to the PCC today and they are going to offer her a lot of new cases in the next couple weeks, then I will give her a period of time before I go back to my old schedule to allow her to...

10. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

    LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

    Let's put it this way: Say you have a full time job with regular shifts at the hospital. They are understaffed and when you need time off there is no one available, and you haven't been able to take...

11. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

    LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

    Yeah I read through some of your comment history and I can see that you are looking more for an argument than to give any advice. I was using the "knife in my back "quote from the other commenter to...

12. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

    LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

    It's not a sweet gig, because I do a few visits and then spend additional unpaid time at the facility doing inservices, rounds with the MDs, and in wellness meetings. That has earned our HH a lot of...

13. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

    LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

    I already end up working evening and weekend sometimes, usually at complicated hospice visits. I realized that she's getting the fruits of my labor doing the quick and easy 3-patients-in-one-stop at...

14. Home Health Orientation for PRN RN?

    LVNblue8 replied to bluemilque's topic in Home Health

    The lack of training unfortunately is typical for both HH and Hospice. I got so lucky that I had 3 weeks of full time paid training at my first Hospice. Now I get treated like the pro at every HH and...

15. Great opportunity, might lose a friend???

    LVNblue8 replied to LVNblue8's topic in Home Health

    CaliOtter3- Yes I initially thought about going to my supervisor but I wasn't sure if that was my chicken instinct, hehe. But you are absolutely right, that's their job. I also talked to my mom about...