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Two questions 1. Is it illegal for a company to tell a w-9 independent contractor they are responsible to provide on gloves for home health care? 2. Am I really an independent contractor. Here it goes; In the past: over the last ten years, I have been a home health nurse doing private duty; w-2 employee based home health through a regional company with multiple satellite offices, and another singular local business with one location as a w-2 employee. All of the above have provided me with ppe (gloves) without any issue, whatsoever. One company where I was w-2, handed me multiple new boxes at a time and always reminded me to take more. Currently: (question 1) The company I work for as a w-9 independent contractor, no taxes are taken from my checks, upon hire stated to me I would get one box of gloves a month. In a nurses meeting the closet with gloves was shown to us and we were told verbally that each nurse working in the home would receive one box a month and after that we are on our own. I brought up at this time that my size was one size larger than what they stocked. The supervisor stated they would order me a size that fit me. Fast forward a year later, Im still with the same company and I have never received a box that fits me. During my tenure here it has been like pulling teeth to get my supervisor to bring any gloves to the home. When I go to get my paychecks- there are never any gloves offered to me. There have been months when the supervisor would bring a box of gloves, however, a size that is one size too small for me for me to use. I bring this to their attention they tell me "your Independant you supply your own." Recently on July 7th I contacted my supervisor and informed them we had no gloves at the home. They stated they brought some over for the month already. That is a lie. There is no way possible as the primary worker in the home, while supplementimg with my own gloves that we would run out of gloves, in 7 days. Impossible. I am very frustrated over their negligence. (question 2) I am given a schedule monthly printed by my supervisor. I select my own hours, with a single patient they assigned me. I am fully responsible for the shifts i select. I am under no obligation to take a pre determined schedule. Again I select my own hours, and the supervisor types it up and hands it to me. Am. I really an independent contractor? I've been an independent contractor for another company, doing wellness clinics and they shipped me boxes upon boxes of gloves. No issue whatsoever. I didn't have taxes taken out with this Company either. What are your opinion(s)

Okay, Im in a transitional program Lpn to Rn at a CC and its my first semester (end of) a 4 semester program. Im taking a nursing class mixed with a pharmacology class. The pharm class is a 1 credit 3 test class + a final. We just today took our final and havnt had a test since october. My professor stressed to us that if we didnt use dimensional analysis, even if we got a correct answer the answer was WRONG. she said this at the beginning of the semester. I have a B in the class and am okay at DA. I took final today and she gave me a 30 % on the final because my dosage calculations were correct they wernt according to her standards "dimensional analysis" what she says is we set up the problem as 1. what we have on hand then 2. what is ordered or conversion then 3. what is ordered is conversion was used in step 2. She said to me today the reason she marked me so low was i "inverted my fractions" and put the have as say for a problem of doc orders 500 mg of A and on hand is 250 mg of tablets of a . we should state as : 1 tab/250 mg X 500 mg /dose WITH TABS BEING AS NUMERATOR. i utilized format 250 mg/ 1 tab X dose/500 mg with tabs being as denominator I was able to calculate appropriately using method of desired/have. and i have failed the course now cannot move on to clinicals because we need to have a 75 % to pass. i have two days to file an appeal before we break for 6 weeks for winter break and i need to have representation that what i did on all my problems utilizing this method is indeed dimensional analysis. I have found documents online that argue for both tabs on top and tabs on bottom. Please help me acquire some ammunition when i go to talk to the grievance department tomorrow and again on friday.