Moral, ethical and monetary delima.... Does this make me a horrible person?

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
Tia I have read some of your posts and find you in a position to make a good earning working for agency nursing. I take your a cna. Agency can be a lot different then home health owned by a moron that has their heads up their ass. I curently work for favorite nurses a world wide agency that employees medical professionals. I used to do prn after working staff at numerous hospitals. They paid me very well. I am now on a 9 month contract where All i do is scrub in surgery. I dont do patient care or push drugs etc. I am a rn but i am not acting like one. This was to good a deal to pass up. I am being paid 13 dollars an hour thatis taxable, i am also being paid 200 for travel, 400 for living expenses and 150 for food a week, this money is non taxable. i bring home 1300 a week on this gig. The agency offers benefits but i dont need them cause i am inusred through tubers work. My advice is to check out the agencies for prn work or contracts. I have to tell ya i worked 40 hours a week when i put my self through nursing school it was freaking hard. Ai worked double shifts of weekends 7 a to 11 p sat and sun and 8 during the week. school kicked my ass but you seem tohave a supprt person husband to help ya i was going through a divorce and raisng 3 kids by myself. I am in sa and would be more then happy to give ya some of the agenices here in san antonio

Yes, I'm currently a CNA. Wow, wasn't aware that you lived in SA so were fairly close to each other, we're in Austin. Actually my husband has been pretty cool about letting me go to school while he works, but with getting a new home and all....well not new it's 50 years old, but new to us. So here's the up date. I finally got my paycheck in the mail yesterday. The envelope was dated the 17 and the check is dated the 18 so I think they hold on to it for the extra couple of days to earn the interest in the bank. Have been in contact with them several times since yesterday and they are really trying to get me to work for them. We have no insurance, my husband has been with his company for 12 years but it offeres no insurance.

We get other perks though he gets profit sharing and his boss gave us the downpayment to purchase our home so it all evens out, but with a bi-polar daughter and well let's face it....we aren't getting any younger it's really amazing how much insurance and retirement begins to be important.

So Mrs. Tuber, how do you keep your feelings at bay when working with patients. I just can't help but put myself in their place. After my third day working there I told my husband if I ever complain again smack me with the frying pan! It puts things in perspective to see that your life really isn't so bad.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Tiamat


So Mrs. Tuber, how do you keep your feelings at bay when working with patients. I just can't help but put myself in their place. After my third day working there I told my husband if I ever complain again smack me with the frying pan! It puts things in perspective to see that your life really isn't so bad.

Mrs Flubber works as a nurse in a cardiac intensive care. In this unit the attachment problem is less since you generally see your patient for one or two consecutive shifts and then they are no longer in your unit . . . she has gotten attached in the past and it can make it tiough since she has worked in units (such as trauma ICU) where deaths are fairly common.

[Urban Ranger]

Is it possible for you to talk to the patient and/or family so you work for them directly instead? Are you under some kind of contractual restrictions?

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
Tia I have read some of your posts and find you in a position to make a good earning working for agency nursing. I take your a cna. Agency can be a lot different then home health owned by a moron that has their heads up their ass. I curently work for favorite nurses a world wide agency that employees medical professionals. I used to do prn after working staff at numerous hospitals. They paid me very well. I am now on a 9 month contract where All i do is scrub in surgery. I dont do patient care or push drugs etc. I am a rn but i am not acting like one. This was to good a deal to pass up. I am being paid 13 dollars an hour thatis taxable, i am also being paid 200 for travel, 400 for living expenses and 150 for food a week, this money is non taxable. i bring home 1300 a week on this gig.

Well and experienced RN in Alberta makes in excess of $30 an hour with an uplift of 1.50 for nights and/or weekends. As an employee of a health board they don't get any of the other stuff you mention but overtime is paid at double time. She actually only works a 55% workload ( allows her a lot of time home with Toddler Flubber)but she can still get the double-pay if she is called in on her "designated days off".

[Tiamat]

Nope, no contract that I know of. I didn't sign anything. Since she's such a serious injury she's on all types of programs ie: medicade, social security etc. They get billed and then we get paid, or I would assume that's the logical chain of events.

I've been duly suckered today. I agreed to keep my weekend shift which means I will be working 7 days a week, which was the purpose of taking this job besides the benefits and money was the weekends off. But they got me by the guilt thing, they even told me this morning that if I wanted all of my hours back I could have them.

Was discussing with Steve this morning about taking back the other job. He was pretty cool about it and said it really up to me what ever is going to make me happy and if working with her does then go for it. He did make the point though.....god forbid what if she died? I would still be attachedd etc....but I found today that while I still care for them and feel bonded to them that I don't feel quite as bad about things considering that when we figured out what we would be bringing home a week would be $1,000.00 per week....well it begin not to feel so bad

[The Mad Viking]

Leave Texas.

How can anyone in Health Care be paid $8 per hour?

That's burger flipping $.

Come to Canada.

$8 / hour?



Anyway, you should not stay at a job for a company that obviously screws their employees as a matter of practice if you have ANY alternative...

... and it sounds like you have a good one.

Your patients pay $ for care. If you leave, they will get someone else. You are not leaving anyone in the lurch by leaving. You are leaving yourself and your husband in the lurch if you let yourself be exploited when you have a better alternative.

IMO...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Easy decision Tia. Take the receptionist job. Yes, you may be leaving a patient in the lurch, but you aren't being paid (and it doesn't look like they'll do it soon... I'd contact the federal Wage and Hour Division or your state Department of Labor... seriously) and that hurts your family. Sure these people are helped by you, but you can't feel guilty about it. After all, they accepted the services of the home health company... which treats you like ****.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Easy decision Tia. Take the receptionist job. Yes, you may be leaving a patient in the lurch, but you aren't being paid (and it doesn't look like they'll do it soon... I'd contact the federal Wage and Hour Division or your state Department of Labor... seriously) and that hurts your family. Sure these people are helped by you, but you can't feel guilty about it. After all, they accepted the services of the home health company... which treats you like ****.

Ehrm - though damn late.

Originally posted by Tiamat
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So here's the up date. I finally got my paycheck in the mail yesterday. The envelope was dated the 17 and the check is dated the 18 so I think they hold on to it for the extra couple of days to earn the interest in the bank.
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[DanS]

I've been duly suckered today.

Hate to be so tough on you, but you suckered yourself. They had nothing to do with it. Stand up for yourself and tell them to shove it!

[RGBVideo]

delima

The correct spelling is "dilemma" AFAIK.

"Quoted for Truth"? What type-A church group Dad came up with that one?

Comrade Tassadar. Please note that at certain event-rich place they used the whole sentence around a month or so before coming up with the acronym for it.

[Tiamat]

Yes, I know.....it's called being a softie. There are times when I just can't say no.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by DanS
Stand up for yourself and tell them to shove it!

QFT!

[RGBVideo]

If the pay for the job truly is $8, my advice is:

Leave Texas.

Move to Canada.

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by VJ

The correct spelling is "dilemma" AFAIK.

Thank you so much for showing me my complete ignorance of the english language. Next time I'll only type with one finger so as to be slow enough not to make anymore mistakes so you won't have to correct me.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Tia I have wroked in surgery every since I got my license, I dont really see the patient long enough to get attached. I meet interview them wheel them off to surgery and for a while i was doing the paperwork now i am scrubbing Assisting the dr during the surgery passing insturments sewing etc. Then after the procedure they are wheeled to recovery and i give report then i am done with that patient. I choose surgery because I like you am a softie when it comes to patients. i can get very attached to them i f i allow myself. I remeber when in nursing school I had a very ill patient for 4 weeks I grew to close to her I know I let me self cause every time she needed pain meds and i couldnt give them to her cause her blood pressure was to low I had to watch her suffer and went to the locker room and cried my self. she did die after my term of school was up But i still remeber her and her family to this day.