ArwenEvenstar

I have been a hospital staff nurse (RN) for 14 years and I am VERY burned out. I need to get into a new area of nursing and i am considering several options. (such as home health, utilization review/case management, mobile field examiner for a life i...

Yeah! Private duty (through agency) is low pay nursing around here too. I'm a RN. I took a 40% pay cut from the hospital when I made the switch. And, at the hospital I was at, you always got a yearly raise. In the 4 yrs of private duty, I never got a...

Although it was through agency, when I resigned the high tech vent case I worked - they had a very hard time replacing me. Maybe it is the vent aspect. Vents scare some nurses. But I agree with another response - the problem may be with finding RN'...

I thought the FBI article was the best. http://www.fbi.gov/newark/press-releases/2011/maxim-healthcare-services-charged-with-fraud-agrees-to-pay-approximately-150-million-enact-reforms-after-false-billings-revealed-as-common-practice As it focuses mo...

Maxim update, straight from the FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/newark/press-releases/2011/maxim-healthcare-services-charged-with-fraud-agrees-to-pay-approximately-150-million-enact-reforms-after-false-billings-revealed-as-common-practice "Maxim Healthcare S...

Latest news on Maxim from the FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/newark/press-releases/2011/maxim-healthcare-services-charged-with-fraud-agrees-to-pay-approximately-150-million-enact-reforms-after-false-billings-revealed-as-common-practice "Maxim Healthcare Ser...

The video monitoring is out of hand, but I agree with ventmommy. Some of the rules are no doubt due to nurses who did stupid or inconsiderate things. Personally, I have had many people live with me over the years - foreign exchange students, rented t...

Yes, it seems that some of the threads about Maxim have disappeared...at least the ones that voice honest concerns about the problems with Maxim. If I say anything negative, this may too disappear! Clearly censorship is going on. Quick summary: Maxi...

I may have discovered the reason this thread has not disappeared (yet at least!). The title of the thread is mis-spelled as "Maxin". So maybe it is evading some searches by the powers that be. Maybe that is the key - refer to Maxim as Maxin! Spread...

If I did not work for Maxim myself for 2 yrs, I would have a hard time believing this! But I did, so i do!! I was "harassed" by Maxim too. For example, they would call me MULTIPLE times about the SAME shift. But if i am not available, I am not availa...

Maybe I'd still be doing private duty (and still be a nurse!) if I'd had an agency like this! How awesome they planned ahead, trained other staff, and took other measures to ensure you were properly staffed. They were concerned for staff, patient, a...

No, no, no!!!!!! That is my strong opinion. Your gut hesitation is right! One of the big problems I encountered with private duty was nurses who lacked a professional boundary between themselves and the pt/family. Things can get out of hand fast and ...

Kyasi, your perspective is great because you are a nurse and you are in charge. That is how it should be. It makes sense. As I've mentioned before, I hope your nurses really appreciate you and your agency. The best agency I worked for was a little ...

yep! I recently ran into the family of a case I used to work through Maxim, and they had been without a nurse for over a month! Unable to staff a case for that long?! Maxim digs their own grave!! And this was a high tech case that got the highest rei...

A raise?!?! hahahahaha!!! I never got one in my 4 plus yrs of private duty - through 2 agencies. The first agency (a nice mom and pop agency) said they already were paying me the most they could. They were apologetic. They said they could not give m...

Big pay difference here!! Like not_a_hat_person, I also took a pay cut of about 33% from hospital to private duty. And the discrepancy only got worse with time. I got a small pay raise every year at the hospital, but I never got a raise the 4 years...

My first agency...a "mom and pop" one...a new nurse on a case would always orient by working a shift or shifts with another nurse on the case. If it was an easier case, the orientation might just be half a shift. But a high tech case, you could get u...

i take it you are independent and not through an agency since you say there is no supervisor. yes, this is tough - even if you have a supervisor. i once resigned a case (through an agency) because of a nurse that was not only telling lies but being ...

My last agency was not always forthright either. Kyasi, I too wondered at first why they would waste the company's time and money in the hiring process if they did not have the hours/locations/case types the nurse was interested in or available for! ...

I think you were referring to my post. The little private agency I worked for. On Nurse's Day each year the nurses got $50 Bath and Body Work gift cards! I was shocked by that!! (Used to getting something really lame from other places I worked for w...

It is really sad that agencies don't provide in-service training on " professional boundaries" in the home. It is really needed, because too many nurses seem to lack common sense and professionalism in this regard. I am not saying this towards you, ...

I got similar comments from one mother about how much money we make!! Yeah right! Private duty nursing was the lowest paid nursing job I ever had. I think one "problem" is the paperwork the family signs. I saw the yellow copies of the contract one f...

Before private duty, I always thought medicaid was for poor people. Then I worked a medicaid case in a huge, half-million dollar, luxury home (in the southeast, this amt of $ buys a very nice home). I was puzzled! What the..?! How could this wealth...

Yes, I had to pay for this stuff when I applied to a privately owned (not a "chain" or whatever like PSA or Maxim, etc) home care agency. However, I had already been interviewed and was told the job was mine, as long as all the background checks wer...

OP - no, you were not wrong! Some of these families... Even sadder that the agency did not back you. Nurses are not there to do dishes/laundry for entire family! Or care for other children! I can't quite understand these agencies?! When they don't b...