strive4mores

hi thank you all for your response and help. i'm embarrassed that i used poor judgment and got myself into such a mess. i'm hoping i do not lose my job for my error. i did want to clariify that i never billed two hospital for the cost of ACLS. Both hospitals allow me 16 hours education time per year for job requirements, skills pertaining to my job, etc. That was how i made my bad judgment. i asked for reimbursement for 8 hours education from two facilities that required a particular certification. thanks again for all your help and direction.

hi, i wanted to thank you for the most comforting response i received all evening. i wonder if i had posted "positive" nursing experience had i had so much of a response. I realize I've made a mistake, I came here for encouragement not to be insulted. I didn't realize that asking for reimbursement for education required for my job would be met with so much opposition and insults. Let me tell you who I am' i am not a nurse who would transport your loved one to a floor with feces and urine all over their body because my shift was ending. i am not a nurse who would "steal" a fentanyl patch from a patient because i had an addition. I am a nurse who would'; shave your loved one at 9 p.m. because the day shift couldn't who would offer you staff coffee because you were scared who would hug you and say "i'll do my best" but i just don't know how the night will go. cry because someone young wasn't going to make it but my 89 year old patient would. for all those who had an iota of support, thank you, for all those who had the need to jump on the bandwagon because i did something that i didn't realize was wrong, i hope you NEVER do anything wrong in your careers and have the need to look for encouragement and/or support only for people to jump aboard and say "how awful a nurse you are" when you really know you've done everything for your patients and made a mistake that you didn't really think too much about.

i want to take a minute to thank you for all your responses. thank you to someone who was the "kindest of all" in staing that i didn't need to hear more of how wrong i was. as a per diem nurse, i receive no benefits from any of the hospitals i work at. i have no health, dental, vacation or sick time. in my thought process (which all of you has said was basically, off kilter) i'd like to add that the reason i "doubled billed" was because two hospitals required i have certain certifications. Since I had fulfilled my certifications that each hospital requested i keep updated, i thought that it was their responsibility to pay me for upkeeping my end of my job requirements. I had no intention of being deceitful, you told me i need a; to work here, you should pay me for keeping a; current. why should another hospital pay me for keeping my requirements to work updated when hospital b; should never incur a cost. i didn't lie and say i completed a course i didn't, i was fulfilling a requirement you had of me. as for those who said how could i have thought that this would be acceptable, well, i met a hospital requirement. they required me to keep up with certification, why shouldn't they pay for me to be certified for my job requirement at their hospital. why should only one hospital pay for a certification and others reap the beneifits? i had no intention of being deceitful. i never compromised patient care. i take good care of my patients. i requested 8 hours education time for the time i spent fulfilling my obligation. if you required that i have certification to work at your facility and that certification expired each year would you say no, sorry, i know you became recertified for your position because we require it, but we shouldn't have to pay you for it, that would make me wonder. again, i thank all respondents, i didn't realize i would be so accused of my nursing abilities when i posted a question that is very concerning to me. i didn't realize i had made a mistake, i thought in all honesty that since i had met my requirements, that the hospitals that made those "requirements" should pay me for keeping my end of the agreement. again, thanks, i'm glad i was able to hear all thoughts on this problem.

hi, i work at several different hospital, non are affliated but two have requirements that i take acls/cpr. i was fulfilling a job requirement. I had no idea since i'm not staff that if a hospital required this education that i wasn't allowed to bill them for meeting my job requirement. god, what a mess!

hello everyone, hope somebody can help. i'm a per diem nurse and work at several hospitals. two of the hospitals require acls. when i went for my recert, i billed both hospital for fulfilling a job requirement. my new nurse manager, said I CANNOT do this and is accusing me of falsifying documentation. I didn't realize this, each different hospital required this education and now she's saying i'm deceitful for doing such a thing. i'm scared i'm going to lose my job, i didn't realize i was doing anything wrong, it's a job requirement. thanks sarah