I been with this home health agency for 9 years, secretary to LVN. I just got my license a month ago. I do QA work including coding of the recerts. I asked my boss if I can see 1 or 2 patients on...
jlmanzano13 replied to 84RN's topic in Home Health
I work for a home care agency, and yes sometimes it seems like they want miracles to happen. Patients that we take under home health services need to actually have a need for skilled nursing visits...
jlmanzano13 replied to vietpinoy_nurse's topic in Home Health
I'm an LVN, officially received my license on 01/06, and I too also finally got a job offer for a home health agency doing part time visits on the weekends after applying to several home health...
jlmanzano13 replied to combray7494's topic in Home Health
For keeping track of hospitalizations, two people are assigned to manage any patients admitted to the hospital. A list of patients hospitalized are kept in excel form which looks like this. PATIENT...
jlmanzano13 replied to jenclaire's topic in Home Health
soc consists of: forms to be signed or filled out by patient/cg: consent form medicare payor screening form emergency plan form route sheet (end of visit) Sn paperwork: SOC OASIS md order - to...
jlmanzano13 replied to eschneider's topic in Home Health
I work for a home care agency as an LVN. I code the recerts and QA the charts, and make corrections for the nurses. Regarding the frequency, missed visits, and reporting to MD. If a frequency is...
jlmanzano13 replied to jlmanzano13's topic in Home Health
Thank you, it makes me feel much better, I am scheduled to see 2-3 other patients, wound care, insulin, colostomy... and will schedule more (trying not to overwhelm myself). I have nurses here who...
jlmanzano13 replied to jlmanzano13's topic in Home Health
thanks for the information, so the next question is, are there any nurses out there who went straight into home health, despite the 1 year minimum clinical
I am a new LVN, but working in the home health field for 9 years in the office coding, developing plan of treatments, auditing charts, staffing, etc... I finally got the opportunity to do a visit...
jlmanzano13 replied to jlmanzano13's topic in LPN, LVN Corner
Yes I did note "clinical experience provided by my college". I even noted "observed catheter insertion"... HR manager told me that if the interviewer called me then she must think I meet minimum...
jlmanzano13 replied to Vicky Laursen's topic in LPN, LVN Corner
28.00/hr - homecare agency/case manager/coding/QA, I was making 21.00/hr as a QA (without license), then got a raise to 25/hr when they switched me to coding (still without license), then 28.00 hr...