I am interested on becoming a subcontractor for a company that does On-site Flu Shots at different clinics. It contracts you for about 4 mths. Has anyone here done this type of subcontracting work? Can someone please give me some insite on rather this type of work is good or bad? Did it workout when you did it? I just really need to know how this thing works before I actually sign an Independent Contractor Agreement and put my License on the line. I really want to help with giving the flu shots this season, but I need advise from Allnurses on this determination, please! Thank you in advance for all responses:)
My contact said 8/15 for orientation materials to come out, so I'll wait until then before I call about it, I guess. I hope I can get a few shifts in just to brush up on my mad injection skillz, lol. We shall see.
pockunit I am with you on brushing up on the mad injections skills:lol2: I haven't did injections in awhile. I'm sure once started in the clinics, I will become a Pro again:). Yep, they said next week the training materials should be back out to review. I'll wait, what else can we do but wait:chair:
I worked for one the past 2 yrs... they took care of my taxes. There were a few glitches, but that is pretty much par for the course no matter what you do in life. I really enjoyed it, and have resigned for this year.
Some of the clinics did get cancelled, or shortened, but it was due to poor customer response. I really think that a lot of consumers were a bit gunshy this past year since the H1N1 was included, and some just didn't seem to see the urgency in getting vacinated.
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I worked for one too and had major issues with cancellations. IDK if they were because of poor customer responses or not, but so many of the clinics I had signed up for got nixed. I had the impression that it was more about lack of customers than for poor service.
They cancelled all but a couple of the clinics I was signed up for. Then, at the last minute, they withdrew the cancellation of one. I did not catch it (honestly didn't know I was supposed to be watching for that) and ended up not going............cause I thought it was still cancelled. I got a bunch of phone calls the day of the clinic, waking me up asking where I was.
Everything got cleared up and they didn't try to accuse me of not showing up, but still........such a lack of organization turned me off.
I only worked a handful of clinics last year. Clinics in my area had huge supply problems, and ran out of vaccine several times. The company paid a bonus based on how many shots you gave, and we ran out of vaccine just short of the mark so many times that I wonder if the shortages were deliberate.
I signed up for this year last week. The season will start in August. The training materials say the company has fixed the supply problem, but if it happens again this year I won't come back.
Overall had a positive experience working as flui shot nurse. Just finished on-line training for upcoming season and waiting for scheduling to be made available. Appreciated that company hired new grads. Hopefully this season will be a good experience as well. Only major complaint I have is purchasing a money order rather than send the customer's cash to the company. That was a pain in the bootay as I had to stand in line with all my stuff last season, but I did it. I give that part of the job a BIG .
I didn't run into many supply problems..I probably would have never returned this season had I experienced that often last season.
This season, there is additional pay for giving over X amount of vaccinations and less earned hourly. Umm, I'm not sure how I feel about this new strategy as I'm not a believer in pushing vaccinations on anyone. I believe if people see the need to be vaccinated conveniently in the retail stores our company serves, they'll come to me. Shhh, I'm sure the company doesn't approve of my comment.
Am currently working as an independent contractor for a company that provides the vaccine and supplies. It signs up clients and schedules appointments. I can't say that it is of much renumerative value to me because they book clients miles appart for maybe 20-40 vaccinations each visit, and it makes the drive time almost as long as the visit. It also makes it so that I'm tied up on the freeways quite a bit, so it is worrisome getting to many of the appointments on time.There have been several scheduling goof-ups where they called my home when I was out on an appointment, instead of calling me on my cell phone. They also sent schedule changes to someone else's email address several times. Once it resulted in a missed appointment(which they promptly stacked onto the next day's schedule, which was already quite tight), and would have happened a number of other times had I not frequently called to be certain that they hadn't added something else( and it turned out that they had , and sent it to the wrong email address AGAIN, even though I verified my email with them after the previous incident.)
I am very experienced in procedure scheduling...I've done it for many years for surgical patients.And I've given many vaccinations in my nursing career. These folks are a hot mess. I think one needs to be REALLY picky about choosing a flu vac provider to work for...making a list isn't all there is to scheduling. I'll see how it goes from here onward, but right now, I don't see me working for them next season
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pockunit, ADN, RN
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My contact said 8/15 for orientation materials to come out, so I'll wait until then before I call about it, I guess. I hope I can get a few shifts in just to brush up on my mad injection skillz, lol. We shall see.