MizzRn

I am in the Nashville area also. Our Soc is $65, Roc/RCT $50, Regular visit is $35, and .45/mile. Meetings are paid at $21 per hour. I spend 1.5 hours in the office each morning turning in previous days visits and mapping out visits for the day. This pay is looking low compared to alot of other places. I really would rather be salary. I am seeing that the pay per visit cannot possibly cover all the work I do outside of the visits.For example, today I had a patient dying and the family requested for a nurse to come out. I was on my way to do a RCT but instead at my bosses request, I went to be with this patient's family. She died right before I arrived. Not to be insensitive, but other than a hug there wasnt much I could do. This was not a paid visit. I wanted to get to my recert which was a paid visit. Ultimately I offered comfort, and left a little after EMS arrived. I felt that I did the right thing. It's just that being ppv it seemed to me that I needed to get to the rct. I am not sure why home health companies switched to this mode of payment. I am new to this so I will see how this plays out. I do know that I would feel much more comfortable with home health if it were salary.

I agree. It is definitely their problem not mine. I can't change who I am. And also yes, there are those patients who don't want a nurse based on "lack of ethnicity." It's their turf, their home, and due to me being a caring nurse who loves my job: thier loss!! It did catch me be surprise though.

I am new to home health nursing. I am working for Amedysis in the Nashville area. I have so far enjoyed my job. I enjoy seeing the patient in their environment. However, I am noticing some disadvantages. Yes it their house, and I definitely respect that. I am at the end of my orientation and taking on a larger number of patients each week. I am finding myself in the office calling patients who for one reason or another decline a visit. I called a patient today who was disheveled because the nurse who usually comes was not coming. I was coming instead due to it being a supervisory visit. He proceeded to hang up in my face and requested that someone else call him back. It was pretty obvious from the time I said my name and heard my voice that he knew that I was black. He had never been this rude to any of the other nurses in the office. I'm not one to play the "race card." But wow, I was really taken aback. So I tried not to take it personal. I can't change my skin color. And wouldn't want to. Just wondering if there are any other nurses out there who have dealt with this.