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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 they MUST be done by a licensed nurse. HHAs are defi...

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 unit option, which is a terminal option, that allo...

Sorry for the super long post, but I tried to cover everything that would probably get asked in the comments. I'm sure I've missed something though LOL . I've been a home health nurse for six years now. I am paid per visit, so I don't work assigned ...

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 semi regular coverage. That way I wouldn't be count...

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 otherwise in the office and then the assigned LVN does...

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 favor. No one at my agency wanted those visits be...

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 with the agency or her assigned patients. These ar...

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. I'm not asking about HER assignments. The case I de...

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 gradually adjust to her own patient load. I'll still of...

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 a day off in 6 months. So you do your own recruiti...

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 say that if anyone is doing that it's not me, it's ...

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 ongoing patients and new referrals. She has decided...

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 the facility that I got the referrals for, while I ...

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 Hospice I've been to since. Some agencies have eve...

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 it and she said the same thing. My friend knows wh...

Did you guys read the whole post? Do you do agency work in home health? Yes, she now works for the agency, not me, and she also has her own patients with the agency. But for all of the patients at this specific Assisted Living, those patients are as...