DennisGray

Exactly. The company I worked for was contracted by a home health company to come in and basically just pass meds. They needed RN's as case managers for recerts and plan of care development. Got plenty of stories of the power struggles between both parties and butt kissing. It was very good money, but it always left me asking all kinds of questions. Nice for income supplement, but definitely not a rewarding career as a nurse.

Yes, billing had to reflect a minimum of 15min/patient.

Billing had to reflect a minimum of 15 min/patient.

It is easy to wrap around. 4 house within several streets of each other. 3 houses with 4 patients, 1 house with 1 patient. 13 visits for morning med pass, 13 visits in the evening for med pass. So, that's 26 visits per day. I worked 2.5 days which equals 65 visits at $25/visit. The minimum amount of time that I could bill for was 15 minutes. My morning med pass was approximately 3 hours for all 13 patients. It was roughly 3.5 hours in the evening. When I say the houses were in close proximity, I mean you leave the house your at and go around the corner to the next house. Its that simple, and yes it is feasible and was extremely feasible. The odd ball from the other 3 houses lived about 6 minutes from the others and that was because of traffic lights. Whoopie! 17 hours was what I billed for and pretty close to the actual amount of time I was actually there.

I've been giving some serious thought of becoming PMHNP. Looking for some advice right now. I have only been a nurse for about a year and a half and I am now in my mid-forties. Instinctively I feel like this is an area of nursing that I am built for and feel that I have the drive for it. My issues at this time are the fact that I have student loan debt coming out of my ears from a business degree that I was unable to do anything with, my ADN, and my BSN. Honestly speaking, I want to do my masters, but I want to make it count because of my age and the amount of working years that I have left. I cannot afford to go to a big school to the tune of another 60k or more. I want to do it because I think that I would excel at it, but like any job or career, we want to maximize our potential too. My concerns revolve around whether or not the school matters where you get your education, are PMHNP's in demand, is it more beneficial to do FNP with a focus on MH or straight MHNP, salary expectations, and can I expect to retire at a reasonable age?

I am from Ohio and was wondering if anyone out there is familiar with any pay per visit agencies that service the Zanesville, Newark, Dover, New Philadelphia or Coshocton areas? I do not mind driving a bit because I used to do work for a home health agency and it was probably the easiest money I ever made. I have tried to Google this and the company that I used to work for didn't even come up. I suck at Google. To give you an idea of the money to be made, I was paid $25 per visit and had 65 visits per week and only worked 17 hours a week. Currently it takes me 2 weeks to take home that much. Essentially I basically doubled my income in half the time. You are probably wondering why I do not work for that company anymore. Well, as it turns out, they employed mostly LPN's, and let me tell you, I have never seen so many women p****d off RN's because we make more money than them and essentially do the same work except developing care plans and recertification's. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing wrong with LPN's and the way I see it, they have the same opportunity to go back and get their RN as I did. To make a long story short, we could not reach a common ground and felt it was in my best interest to walk away before things went sideways. I hated having to walk away from that job because the money was killer. The best part is that I wasn't killing myself to take home a great paycheck. I have to work overtime to take home that kind of money. I guess I'm looking for ways to supplement my income because I work at a Hospital now and there is nothing worse than getting a call from the CC telling you that you're on call because the census is low. Anybody have any suggestions?