DianeM47

Where I worked, holiday requests had to be in by Sept 15 for all three holidays and the final schedule posted by October 15. Holidays were rotated based on the previous year's schedule, the requests for the current years, the number of available staff, etc. Please don't call off on holidays....it is a nightmare.

I like the motion detector suggestion! And a big whooping alarm.....!! Not washing hands with a MRSA patient is criminal!

I don't know your history since I don't usually follow these threads. However, if you have been fired several times, you should have gone through a counseling process etc in which the reasons for your firing would have been discussed. You should also have participated in the development of a plan to rectify your deficits. So what's the story? What do you see as the problems and what have you done to address them? Do you think the firings have been unfair etc? Diane

I have worked for Unival for a year and a half. The work available in my area is very sporadic which is ok for an old retiree like me. As was mentioned, the pay is correlated to the degree of difficulty of the assignment. A flat fee is paid for an office visit/initial site review and takes about 1/2 hour - that's the $32. The subtraction of the 40 miles is what is considered normal commuting so you get paid for miles beyond that number. These uncomplicated site visits are not rocket science, believe me. Nurses that work in areas with more complex record reviews/facility reviews probably have more work and get paid more. This is not a high-paying industry. I have worked for another company doing HEDIS reviews where the pay was per chart abstracted that also required entering the data on your computer. I believe that was $9/chart. The pay per chart dropped when data entry was no longer required. I made the most money doing record abstraction from my home but that is no longer being offered by that company this year. Does anyone know of similar companies? Or the health care plans that hire their own HEDIS people?