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I currently work home health shift care I have been forced to work the past two shifts with no gloves because the patient and his family at the house have burned through all of the gloves and the agency is no longer willing to provide any more. I was under the impression that the home health agency is responsible for providing its employees with PPE such as gloves. When I told my boss that they are responsible for providing their employees such as myself with the necessary PPE such as gloves to do my job she told me that the gloves are not their responsibility and that it is the responsibility of the health insurance to provide DME. I believe she may be confusing DME with PPE and I believe she is incorrect. I believe that the home health agency is responsible for providing its employees with the necessary PPE such as gloves to do their job. Can anyone let me know if I am correct or not? If I am correct can you please let me know what rule law or regulation is applicable in this situation as I would like to forward that rule law or make it to my supervisor. As of now I believe home health agency is out of compliance for refusing to supply its employee with gloves. Thank you.

That's why the pay is higher, cost of living is highest in the bay area. I'm sure 20 doesn't go far up there, 20 doesn't go far here in the ghetto of socal

Everyone will get their pennies in a bunch with this statement but oh well, do what you gotta do. That being said, just lie about your experience. They will have a hard time verifying out of country employment. Look what the economy has gotten to, people with education's need to lie to get 15hr jobs. It's either that or possibly never get a job as a lvn. I know several people from my class that got their license and never got a job, this was 8 years ago btw so I suppose I was one of the lucky ones but perhaps I should emphasize again how hard I tried.

Where do you live? If that's the case, it's worth moving!

its pretty much a must in california. LVNs are beeing weeded out and the pay is not much above min wage.

Hello, it took me 1 year of applying after I got my LVN to land my first nursing job. I desperately applied everywhere possible and got the run around/catch 22 of 1 yr exp required outside of nursing school yet you cant get that exp without getting your first job.....I also desperately tried to volunteer to no avail. I really want to emphasize how hard i tried, and how desperate I was for a job. LVN in california are slowly being weeded out and the pay is going down. It not uncommon to be paid as low as $14 hour ($3 above min wage) at some places, although thats the lowest I have seen. Right now most places are paying about $17 hr or so I would say. Your job availability are extremely limited as well, its basically SNF or Home Health. I think your best bet would be to list your RN out of country experience on your resume and use that to get a low paying home health job. Many of the home health agencies hire people on the spot because of their high turn around and low pay. If you could get in face to face with the interviewer and explain your situation, im sure they will hire you because you do have experience. The last home health job I had was $17 hr with no benefits at all, and paid $11 hr/min wage during training. To put that into perspective, people at in and out burger make about the same.

So I live in Socal and went to summit career college, a vocational school for my LVN. I am wondering if there are any schools anywhere that will accept/transfer my credits for a LVN to RN program. Theres many LVN to RN programs available to get your RN fairly quick, but they all require the pre-requisites of general ed, such as math, english, then you need to do A&P, etc etc. I am really trying to find a way to not have to do the pre-requisites again. A majority of them I have already done when I got my LVN but they wont be transferred anywhere. I have started community college and have gotten a few classes done, but between working as an LVN and school and blah blah blah, it seems impossible. I wish there was a place that would actually let me do the LVN to RN by either accepting the classes I did at summit. I know of westcoast university but its not worth the 120k. Any schools someone could reccommend either vocational or standard? I would be willing to even move out of state if that is an option.

and you are talking RN right? if so I guess $20 is fair.

yeah but were talking about california. cost of living etc is much higher here then most states. Most RN here are getting paid around $30 fresh out of school

I was offered a job doing home hospice. I was told I would be paid about $20 a visit or hour. I cant remember exactly. I told a friend of mine and he said hospice nurses should be getting paid more around $30. can anyone clear this up for me. This is for the southern california area. thanks.

yeah, im an LVN now, but being an RN doing home health seems the way to go for me.

thanks for the replies. so it seems there shouldnt be anything to worry about. I actually declined the job offer because of this, now I am calling them back desperately to try and get the job offer again. Im burnt out on case management. I am more drained at the end of the day doing case management then I was when I did construction! its just mentally exhausting! chronic stress is not good for your health. Its time for me to go!

can some one please explain to me the job duties of a hospice nurse? what is a typical day working as a hospice nurse like?

im really trying to find a 3 12 schedule. I want those 4 days off to pursue my RN. I also am interested in dialysis nursing so it would be killing 2 birds with 1 stone. IF i could land a dialysis job that is.

no replies?!?!? dope!

I am looking for some advice on a career path to take. I have been doing case management for 2 years now. It is my first nursing job out of school. Long story short I am burnt out on it. I have been looking into doing home health. I got offered a home health job that was 3 12 hour shifts. I am thinking of taking it but I am worried about some things. Mainly I am worried that if I switch over to home health I may not have steady work because eventually the patient may go to a SNF or no longer need home health. I am the only person working in the family and cannot afford to be out of work. The pros of taking this job is the free time it would give me would allow me plenty of time go to back to school and pursue my RN. My other option is to just continue in case management because I know I will be working monday through friday. So does anyone have any advice to give me? what would you do if you were in my shoes? Also am I being overly worried about not having work as a home health nurse? I mean im sure if I "lose" a patient they will find me another one but if it took 2 weeks for them to do it and I went 2 weeks without pay then the crap would hit the fan.

so I have tried to get into dialysis nursing but havent had much luck yet. I had a question on the scheduling, I heard that you either work M W FRI or T TH SAT. does anyone know if its possibe or if there are any places that work you 3 straight days rather then every other day?

I have been working in case management for 2 years now and I am starting to get burnt out. The job is very stressfull, its not physically demanding but its a lot of mental stress and anguish. You see people myself included so over whelmed with way too much to do, can never catch up, and just given more and more work to do. It is not worth the stress but I need a job. It's making me depressed really. It's not healthy to be so stressed out and have horrible headaches everyday because of it. It's just extreme multi tasking. if you ask me how was your day? my answer would be extremely fast paced and stressfull.

24$ hr? wow thats more then im paid here in california

where is "south dakota nursing"?

hi i was just wondering if anyone here is from south dakota? i have the option of moving there, but I am not sure if there is much work there or if I will be able to find work etc. any one have any input?

are you going to get 3 12 hour shifts a week?

so if you go onto this website: http://californiadialysis.org/CHT_FAQ.html at the bottom of the page it says: Question #14: Where can I get a listing of approved training programs/schools? Answer: The Hemodialysis Training Programs/Schools are approved by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and they maintain a listing on their web site at: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/services/training/Documents/CertifiedHemodialysisTrainingPrograms.pdf if you click on that link it gives you a list of supposed "hemodialysis training programs/schools" but when the list comes up it is nothing but a list to a bunch of dialysis clinics. I called them and they all say that you have to get hired and they will train you. There is not a single school in there. can anyone help me with finding a school that offers dialysis training?

I have always wanted to go live in thailand for a while. I was wondering if anyone has ever done a overseas travel job there? Or ever worked there as a nurse? How realistic would it be for a male nurse to work as a nurse in thailand?

I was interested in this when I first graduated as well. I applied and applied and got a bunch of letters, but never an interview. Did you guys get hired? is it 3 12 hour shifts? I have a buddy who works for chino and he does 4 10's