PT managing RN

[alissawyat]

Have any of you heard of a physical therapist managing a home health branch including all nurses?

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Yes... a Physical Therapist (DPT) is one of 2 Branch Directors overseeing 3 of our 6 home care branches. MSN RN is other director; both report to VP Patient Services RN, MB.). They are responsible for ADMINISTRATIVE functions, not able to supervise nursing practice provided by RN/LPN --- but can call you on the carpet if patient paperwork/visit notes not completed timely, missing items on OASIS form, no call/no show at patients home, falsifying time sheet etc. An RN must be the one to perform yearly supervised home visit/evaluation however.

I got called on carpet by state at previous agency for completing yearly PT supervisory visit and eval as I was responsible for assigning them clients, reviewing notes & matching to time sheet, and instructing agency P+P. Solved when I had Physical Therapists eval each others performance and submitted to state-- luckily not cited.

[alissawyat]

Thank you for the response. Can they triage the SOC of patients?

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

2 hours ago, alissawyat said:

Thank you for the response. Can they triage the SOC of patients?

Yes!