cinnamongirl233

I worked for them in Oklahoma City. I found that the case managers there marked out my OASIS answers, changed them, and put my initials on them. They also paid me 2 dollars per visit less than what they quoted me and refused to do anything about it. The laptops didn't make things better, the program automatically blocks any OASIS answers that are inconsistent with the other answers. Good as a reminder to reassess or rethink sometimes, but when you had one of those patients that defied all odds and nothing made sense, it was impossible to document that. My experience with Amedisys was awful, and I left home health for 2 years after that. I have just returned to home health and am still scared because of the experience I had there, but I need the flexible schedule so I'm going to try.

i've been at OU for years. i will not dispute the fact that sometimes it gets pretty rough, but there's no other hospital in oklahoma where i would work. i love the teaching atmosphere and the fact that what i'm doing for my patient is based on current research, not just what some crotchety old doctor orders and that's they way it goes. i feel valued as a part of the healthcare team there...the doctors are always willing to sit down and discuss the patient's care. i have worked at hospitals all over the country as a traveller and this is not the case in other hospitals. having said that, if you want to work in an ER, you have to decide what type of patient you want to care for. you're not going to get the little old lady from the nursing home with fatigue as much as you're going to get the drunk who walked out in front of a car going highway speed. the bottom line is, we get the worst of the worst. you're not getting admitted with a bellyache (unless the cause of that ache is a gunshot wound). it's fun. it's heartbreaking. it's addicting. and i would recommend it to anyone.

i got out of management almost as quickly as i got into it. i went into it full of great ideas and fully supported by the staff. however, i had no support from the higher-up's or even the supervisor for the opposite shift, who would lock herself in her office and watch dvd's while the rest of the nurses were doing everything they could just to get by. i will never go down that road again. unfortunately, with the nursing shortage, a lot of nurses are well aware that they are a warm body filling a slot on a schedule and as long as they show up and don't kill anyone, there will be no consequence. and if they do work harder than they have to, what's in it for them? without rewards for good work and consequences for bad work. i tried to explain this to the director in an attempt to deveolp some motivation to no avail. now i'm back nursing, doing what i love and i'm only responsible for me. it's great.

i spent the longest 8 weeks of my life as a traveller at st. mary's in clayton. i would not recommend looking for a job here unless you want to quit nursing before you start. unbelievably horribly managed by unbelievably horrible people. honest to god.