ddeckerlvn

I have a question for all hospice nurses. I recently started working for a hospice company and was "laid off" via text message on Tuesday of this week. It was my first hospice experience and have to say it will probably be my last due to this particular agency. It is a small, RN owned company with 7 patients. I was with the RN (owner) for a week before and did not receive good training. This agency has had a huge turnover rate with her losing about 4 employees since I started working there. Well, since I had worked with this RN owner at another company prior, I started working for her. She was in need of another RN and the one she hired, she did not like and always bad mouthed her to me saying this RN was a horrible nurse. So she let her go as well. I have a "friend" who is a LVN but has 10 years experience in hospice so I knew she would be a good fit for her. The RN is scheduled for her survey on Tuesday next week and she is so unorganized. She has IDG's that have not been done since at least February. Long story short, my "friend" got mad at me and quit the job after one week. I was laid off this week saying that her consultant recommended her RN friend help her through survey. Come to find out, she let me go so she could bring my friend back. Now I suspect she is doing what she was doing before. All those IDG's that were not done, RN is having the LVN do them and backdate them under her name in the computer. I suspect that she is also having the LVN do all her recerts and will have her do any admissions that come up as she has told me that is what she is wanting. I also suspect that LVN is doing all her charting for her too as lvn is much better at charting. Like I said, her survey is due Tuesday. Is this even legal? Is there something I can do? I feel like there is some kind of fraud going on here. Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading.

I have a question for all hospice nurses. I recently started working for a hospice company and was "laid off" via text message on Tuesday of this week. It was my first hospice experience and have to say it will probably be my last due to this particular agency. It is a small, RN owned company with 7 patients. I was with the RN (owner) for a week before and did not receive good training. This agency has had a huge turnover rate with her losing about 4 employees since I started working there. Well, since I had worked with this RN owner at another company prior, I started working for her. She was in need of another RN and the one she hired, she did not like and always bad mouthed her to me saying this RN was a horrible nurse. So she let her go as well. I have a "friend" who is a LVN but has 10 years experience in hospice so I knew she would be a good fit for her. The RN is scheduled for her survey on Tuesday next week and she is so unorganized. She has IDG's that have not been done since at least February. Long story short, my "friend" got mad at me and quit the job after one week. I was laid off this week saying that her consultant recommended her RN friend help her through survey. Come to find out, she let me go so she could bring my friend back. Now I suspect she is doing what she was doing before. All those IDG's that were not done, RN is having the LVN do them and backdate them under her name in the computer. I suspect that she is also having the LVN do all her recerts and will have her do any admissions that come up as she has told me that is what she is wanting. I also suspect that LVN is doing all her charting for her too as lvn is much better at charting. Like I said, her survey is due Tuesday. Is this even legal? Is there something I can do? I feel like there is some kind of fraud going on here. Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading.

I have a question for all hospice nurses. I recently started working for a hospice company and was "laid off" via text message on Tuesday of this week. It was my first hospice experience and have to say it will probably be my last due to this particular agency. It is a small, RN owned company with 7 patients. I was with the RN (owner) for a week before and did not receive good training. This agency has had a huge turnover rate with her losing about 4 employees since I started working there. Well, since I had worked with this RN owner at another company prior, I started working for her. She was in need of another RN and the one she hired, she did not like and always bad mouthed her to me saying this RN was a horrible nurse. So she let her go as well. I have a "friend" who is a LVN but has 10 years experience in hospice so I knew she would be a good fit for her. The RN is scheduled for her survey on Tuesday next week and she is so unorganized. She has IDG's that have not been done since at least February. Long story short, my "friend" got mad at me and quit the job after one week. I was laid off this week saying that her consultant recommended her RN friend help her through survey. Come to find out, she let me go so she could bring my friend back. Now I suspect she is doing what she was doing before. All those IDG's that were not done, RN is having the LVN do them and backdate them under her name in the computer. I suspect that she is also having the LVN do all her recerts and will have her do any admissions that come up as she has told me that is what she is wanting. I also suspect that LVN is doing all her charting for her too as lvn is much better at charting. Like I said, her survey is due Tuesday. Is this even legal? Is there something I can do? I feel like there is some kind of fraud going on here. Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading.

Hello all, I am new to the boards and have a question. I've been in nursing for 20 years in both LTC and home health. I have recently relocated back to the Dallas area and secured employment at a very small agency. This agency serves all of the Dallas metro area. I don't mind the driving as that is part of the job and it is giving me the opportunity to relearn the area since I have been away for the past 19 years. Anyway, the woman who owns the agency is also DON, administrator, well...she's everything. This is my first week there and she has given me a full load and expects me to start at 8 in the morning (that's not the problem) and be done by 2. The problems lies in the fact that she wants me to see 10-12 patients in that time span and the patients she gives me are at least 15-20 miles apart. Then when I cant produce she yells saying that her other nurse does it and even is able to give patient a shower if they need it and yells at me saying that I need to work on my time management skills. She continues to berate me and then turns around saying she is only trying to help me. At my previous job I saw 10 patients or more a day and my time management skills were very good and my boss there was always complimenting me on my work. Now with this agency how am I supposed to go and see that many people in that time frame with that much distance between them and still provide good nursing care? It's only been two days and my confidence has gone so far down I don't even know if I want to stay in nursing. Sorry for the length but I just need advice from experts.