http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide.html Indeed.com - one search. all jobs. en-us Copyright (c) Tue May 21 12:52:47 CDT 2013 Indeed, Inc All rights reserved. Tue May 21 12:52:47 CDT 2013 http://www.indeed.com/images/indeed_rss.png http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide.html http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/home-health-aid-position/t29411/p2 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/home-health-aid-position/t29411/p2 2013-05-19 15:33:01.0 [QUOTE who="Anne Conyers-Hom in Montclair, New Jersey"]Dear Brenda, My family and I are looking for a good person to help with our Dad, who lives at Buckingham Place in South Brunswick, NJ. This is an assisted living facility. His wife (who he married after our mother passed away) lives there with him, but she is elderly, too, and is becoming less reliable in making sure Dad get all the nutrition he needs. He's also started losing things, and she has been unable to help find them, etc. Could you email me? I'd appreciate it very much. Thank you.[/QUOTE] I would like to help you and your family with the needed care, I am a hard working person who respect people both old and young. my email is, wisekobby@yahoo.com i am ready to start now. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Becoming-Home-Health-Aide/t24113/p5 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Becoming-Home-Health-Aide/t24113/p5 2013-05-18 22:40:33.0 Can anybody tell me about any Home Health Aide companies that is in Brooklyn NY? http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/FREE-HOMEHEALTH-AIDE-CLASSES/t393826/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/FREE-HOMEHEALTH-AIDE-CLASSES/t393826/p1 2013-05-06 18:55:40.0 [QUOTE who="ericaLM32 in Cleveland, Ohio"]i live here in euclid and i know they give a class on E185th st, had a few friends go through the class and loved it!! if u live close u can google it or drive down the street and see the sign on the building! hope this helps[/QUOTE] I LIVE OFF OF 185TH IN EUCLID/CLEVELAND WHERE EXACTLY IS THE TRAINING, I DON'T RECALL SEEING IT OFF 185TH http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 10:38:16.0 [QUOTE who="Anonymous in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania"]That's true, LPNs are in need but it depends on the area of the country you reside. Here in PA, the only LPN jobs are nursing homes and even those are short...in general in PA/Philly the LPN/RN/and BSN market is tough...too many grads and not enough jobs. Most hospitals want nurses with BSN (for magnet status) and won't even hire a BSN out of school without 2 years "experience". It's brutal...how do you get experience without a job, and a job with no experience??? I hope Obamacare broadens hiring but I've been told due to it, the care will be minimal and hospitals will still cut staff/less hiring due to costs and doctors leaving the profession...we will all have to be more open to non-hospital jobs.[/QUOTE] Might depend on the area and the profession but my niece is a medical biller and she says to stay with direct patient care. What is going to be cut will be administration. They will: 1. Consolidate 2. Outsource or 3. Automate it. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 10:25:50.0 [QUOTE who="learning in Reading, Pennsylvania"]Im a home health aid and needed advise to be assured if the job i chose is the right job for me. Tell you the truth i rather go work in a factory where there was not so many problems like the job i work at now, after reading about what happened at your jobs as home health aides really is helpful and I am very thankful that a client kindly sent me home without yelling, all he did was tell me that he can't have me there anymore if im going to keep on being nervous but hey what are you suppose to do if somebody keeps getting on your case about every little move you make and have you feel stupid like its not good enough they got whats annoying them off his or her chest, verbal abuse is something you do not need at all on the job.[/QUOTE] If you are into nursing, go for it. If you just need "a job"--take the factory. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 10:21:51.0 That's true, LPNs are in need but it depends on the area of the country you reside. Here in PA, the only LPN jobs are nursing homes and even those are short...in general in PA/Philly the LPN/RN/and BSN market is tough...too many grads and not enough jobs. Most hospitals want nurses with BSN (for magnet status) and won't even hire a BSN out of school without 2 years "experience". It's brutal...how do you get experience without a job, and a job with no experience??? I hope Obamacare broadens hiring but I've been told due to it, the care will be minimal and hospitals will still cut staff/less hiring due to costs and doctors leaving the profession...we will all have to be more open to non-hospital jobs. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 09:53:23.0 CNAs are not eliminating LPN jobs when CNAs don't make nearly as much as an LPN and not everyone can take off the full two years to get their RN credentials. Some people still have to work and go to school and where I live in IL LPNs are a fast growing field for working professionals who want to go to nursing school, but can't take off for two years and still want to work on their RN at their own pace. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 09:48:55.0 My personal spin: as a former client for my parents, a HHA, and current nursing student (worked private care and agencies) the agency should have been notified ASAP, period. You are paying for a service. Also, just my personal opinion, but agencies suck, overcharge, and hire "warm bodies". You are better off calling a local community college and trying to find nursing students who already have criminal background checks, training, etc. They will charge half of what an agency will...up to them to file taxes as independent contractors, etc. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 09:46:49.0 cont. After having several sinus infections due to the rodent droppings and dirt all over the house it became clear that this client is well on his way to a nursing home. I believed he had early mild dementia since some of his memory wasnt all there and he would fall asleep forgetting he left the door unlocked which is a concern because anyone could walk into his house off the street and he wouldnt hear them come in. I was also concerned for my safety because this man also did things that was not normal like hauling his groceries in a trash can that was used to dispose of garbage knowing it's not clean. It's stuff like that which makes you nuts on your job and then they get mad when you let them know you're not putting the food they eat in something to move it to the house. Like one person said you have a lot of judgment calls and I've had my share of making a few of them. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 09:42:17.0 [QUOTE who="Salcare Home Health Care Services Inc in New York, New York"]The supervising nurse and the coordinator create a plan of care that involves YOU. All complaints/comments should be directed to them. Receipts are required and is taught to all aides from the onset. If you receive no satisfaction, change agencies. If your complaints to the agency are unheeded, you don't have much of a choice but to switch, since the direct aide supervision comes from the nursing supervisor. If the nursing supervisor is not doing her job, you can bet the aide won't either. Good luck![/QUOTE] As a home health aide for the past four years I have had clients who were a piece of work to deal with. A lot of them don't need us around because many of them don't want you doing things for them and yet what's the purpose of you being there when your job is to service them with homemaker and caregiving services? I had a client I was forced to drop because he had a huge problem with trash being all over the house and wound up having to report him to my supervisor even taking photos to prove what I was talking about and my boss immediately took me off and placed someone else on with this client and she too had quit because everything I said in the notes was exactly what this last aide reported in hers. The client had a rodent problem, the client is a fall risk since he's fallen twice when I worked with him, he has memory issues, his house needs a lot of work because I reported issues with the plumbing, and an overabundance of trash which resulted in the house smelling really bad and attracting rodents. The agency I work for along with who also was funding the client's homemaker services suspended the services until the client makes necessary repairs on his house and has to pass an inspection for services to resume. It comes down to this when clients homes are not safe for them or the worker to be there. My health and safety come first in order for me to do my job. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 08:32:46.0 The supervising nurse and the coordinator create a plan of care that involves YOU. All complaints/comments should be directed to them. Receipts are required and is taught to all aides from the onset. If you receive no satisfaction, change agencies. If your complaints to the agency are unheeded, you don't have much of a choice but to switch, since the direct aide supervision comes from the nursing supervisor. If the nursing supervisor is not doing her job, you can bet the aide won't either. Good luck! http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 02:52:42.0 continued/ And this is an agency that appears to have several hundred of these workers. Sure hope they aren't all like these two appear to be or at least have been behaving so far. I really so much would prefer not to end up reporting the main woman especially, that I'm thinking, maybe I should just change agencies. But what can you do, when the provider wants to do only about half the job, and from the start pretty clearly was at least setting me up for potential stealing (the no receipts part) if not already stealing. When she did start providing some receipts, promptly I noticed an item I didn't list, or get, initially on the receipt, though it got then, removed and deleted. Maybe she changed her mind on letting it show, now that she might be providing receipts. If anyone has any advice on anything I should do other than maybe switching agencies, or possibly on trying to just get one of their other workers although that feels very awkward, i'd appreciate it. It's hard because it seems somehow that maybe she just can't help taking advantage and maybe even stealing. I know of the saying, partly true i think, that it's pretty common for petty stealing, to occur by people at work. But I see so little choice, especially since , clearly enough, she's been deceitful from the start in various ways. I'm retired, on a fixed income, and am living in 2 1/2 rooms, one of which is only for storage since it's very cold the whole 8 months or so of heating season. Maybe she just feels superior, because of owning a house, which she told me of. Sad; where is the sympathy for a person. If any choice or other ideas of what I could do other than what i mention, are provided , I'll consider them if i see them. May have to decide within a couple days. Thank you for reading this true testament, and congratulation on all who aren't like my workers. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 02:42:02.0 continued/ ..Spotted a person standing there smoking a cigarette, while I waited upstairs! And yet SHE was mad about me going out front or something. During that visit, she announced that, from now on she would be showing out fifteen to thirty minutes later than the original time. But wouldn't be staying longer to make up for it. Said she had gained a new client earlier than me, so could come on time any more. Not that she usually did come on time anyway. Or do more that usually just shopping. True that my bathroom rarely needs cleaning by anyone else, or that I couldn't hang and fold my laundry myself, laundry help being another assignment. It would have helped a little to have minor help with the laundry, but no big deal except, what is she going to do with the unused 45 minutes to an hour, at least , of the scheduled time not needed usually for shopping? I guess the idea is, come late and leave early but still charge for two hours, which is about twice what she's been helping. I never, at first , would have guessed this about her. Or that she would almost never smile--a little just once after we had been slightly , sort of indirectly, been discussing how to handle some of the questions that were arising. Sort of truly a wold in sheep's clothing I think. Only maybe five years younger than me ,maybe 55 or so, and who would have thought this from a normal appearing woman. I happened to talk with some people who are involved with a competing agency, talking mostly by accident since we had been chatting about something else. They immediately assured me that I'm being abused,and that most all these things are important violations, even the second woman telling me she HATED shopping for people, as well as that she basically had had no training for the job. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 02:41:31.0 continued/ ..Spotted a person standing there smoking a cigarette, while I waited upstairs! And yet SHE was mad about me going out front or something. During that visit, she announced that, from now on she would be showing out fifteen to thirty minutes later than the original time. But wouldn't be staying longer to make up for it. Said she had gained a new client earlier than me, so could come on time any more. Not that she usually did come on time anyway. Or do more that usually just shopping. True that my bathroom rarely needs cleaning by anyone else, or that I couldn't hang and fold my laundry myself, laundry help being another assignment. It would have helped a little to have minor help with the laundry, but no big deal except, what is she going to do with the unused 45 minutes to an hour, at least , of the scheduled time not needed usually for shopping? I guess the idea is, come late and leave early but still charge for two hours, which is about twice what she's been helping. I never, at first , would have guessed this about her. Or that she would almost never smile--a little just once after we had been slightly , sort of indirectly, been discussing how to handle some of the questions that were arising. Sort of truly a wold in sheep's clothing I think. Only maybe five years younger than me ,maybe 55 or so, and who would have thought this from a normal appearing woman. I happened to talk with some people who are involved with a competing agency, talking mostly by accident since we had been chatting about something else. They immediately assured me that I'm being abused,and that most all these things are important violations, even the second woman telling me she HATED shopping for people, as well as that she basically had had no training for the job. And this is apparently an agency with two or three hundred of these workers! Could a whole bunch of them be like this? http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 02:31:29.0 continued from above. she seemed to hesitate and look annoyed, but did comply that day. Subsequent days, she stood right by the washer by the door, on which was the week's rubbish bags, and while asking if there was any more to do, actually looked right over at the filled rubbish bags. That being the situation, I therefore figured I wouldn't bother asking her to carry it out, since it was so obvious that she was suppposed to. Again, let me mention that this is no "obvious" harridan witchlike woman or anything. She in appearing is pretty mild mannered looking, and she doesn't yell or anything. So I really never expected the difficulties. The fourth day, she didn't show up at all. I called the agency, saying in part that I was worried for her welfare...whereupon the agency said, oh, the phone number we have for you must be wrong, since we couldn't reach you. She had some kind of family problem, so is off today. That day, the agency did get a different worker to come by in the evening, to pinch hit. That at first was impressive, at least until she told me every trouble she had in the world, including that she HATED shopping for people, her main job for me. The next week, the regular woman showed up TEN MINUTES EARLY. IF wasn't fully dressed or otherwise ready for her, as might be ezpected I think. Whoo shows up early to anything like that ? The person might be unprepared, like I was. The next time , she was fifteen minutes late. The followed time, about twenty minutes late. The next following time, at fifteen minutes, I managed to make it down the stairs, where I didn't think I spotted her car or her anywhere out front (it's on a busy downtown street.). I just waited ...and promptly she stormed up to me and just stared me in the face...making a face so strong that i didn't at first know it was her (i have poor vision, though, too). It's true I had spotted someone a building or so away, out front of it...but decided it probably wasn't her. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 02:21:39.0 ...(continued from above) And there were other instructions included, which I think I adhered completely to: for example, provide some money at the outset, if there is any cleaning to be done, for any materials the provider will need. Done on the first day. And make sure to be home and ready to let the person in, etc. But what, on my end, have i ended up , so far , getting as to certain details? First, let me say that the person initially as to appearance, and manner, seemed nice enough although I noticed no great amount of cheer, enthusiam much at all, and apparently no ability or willingness to smile (whcih even if only a little bit, would have meant a lot to me). And then, despite the initial talking going okay i guess although I sort of seemed to have be the one to "do the work" of figuring out most all the questions to ask, with her volunteering very little if anything. But then, very quickly starting the first day and continuing, she, quite apparently deliberately, violated the stated policy of receipts for purchases ALWAYS being provided. Over the first four visits or so, she provided none at all. When I started hinting soon thereafter, "gee, i sure hope the store charged the right prices, especially on all the sale items I listed", she somewhat caught the hint, and started sometimes providing them. Also , the first day with no receipts, she also provided no coin change--without mentioning something like, Gee, believe it or not, the amount came to an even dollar amount, so there is no small change, there's just this bill or two. Any way you look at her performance on this latter one, clearly something missing! And when I asked her , the second or third visit, to take out the trash like is on her list (I'm recovering from a fracture and complications, and can't always negotiate the stairs and such very well--which is why this got put on the list) http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/HHA-Horror-Stories/t355120/p1 2013-05-05 02:09:49.0 Hi, and this forum is interesting, as well as pretty amazing as to its contents. About all I can (partly) figure, assuming the amazing horror stories are true, is that maybe the figuring is that many of the clients are at least somewhat demented, and so it at the outset is a difficult situation all around. I'm glad I came here and in fact joined so that I could post here--even though I'm not a HHC worker, but newly a client...who thought, before perhaps taking action about apparent abuses BY the worker involved, I'd try to find out what I should or could reasonably expect. Maybe I should mention that the situation is just a "home care" worker I guess, and not really a Health care worker. That latter, may soon be in the offing if I end up switching agencies, as well as keeping the home care part. I do notice that all day home health workers writing here, who I think may in some cases be private workers, seem to work on very very different terms, putting up with much much less difficulty. Again, let me emphasize in advance that from reading or skimming most of the posts, I notice that most or all are from providers, not clients, so I hope that it'd be okay to post my little tale from the OTHER side of things.If it's not o.k., maybe it'll be automatically removed or something. First, just for what it's worth, I was told in a pamphlet I received right at the beginning, of things to watch out for from workers--such as , obviously if hopefully not often, the real overall possibility of theft..human nature just being what it is, I guess. I was quickly advised of my own responsibility to keep money and valuables hidden as best possible, as well as to stay physically present, nearby at least...which I have so far, been careful to do, especially not yet knowing the worker too well in maybe two months. If was advised the worker would provide receipts for all purchases, and shopping yes, is big or very big on my short list of services needed http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Please-help-HHA-s-is-your-company-recruitment-office/t374120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Please-help-HHA-s-is-your-company-recruitment-office/t374120/p1 2013-05-02 15:03:59.0 [QUOTE who="Salcare Home Health Care Services Inc in New York, New York"]Thank you for writing to me. You can ask for Karla in the office and leave your phone number with her so I can contact you if you are already an employee for the company. We do not decide how many hours each case runs. That is up to the vendor who assigns the case to the agency. We also understand that many aides will work with more than one agency in order to fill their hours necessary to make a living. Our employees are an investment in the company. If you are satisfied and do your job, it reflects on the quality of services the company provides. We have many employees who have been with us for many years.[/QUOTE] I thank you so much for replying to me so quickly. I am also happy to find that your agency will not become upset for a person to work outside of them. I do understand that your agency can not determine the hours of cases because it is up to the insurance. Since working with the agency, my state certificate has expired but last year around November or something like that I completed the schedule in service and I also recently completed another In service last week Thursday for 5 and a half hours each. Oh, my mistake if I lead you to believe I work for your agency. I am referring a complete different agency I correctly work for and I am seriously thinking about resigning with them because i am not happy about the situation after recently learning they fire people just because they are working with an outside agency while working and being loyal to them. Thank you again. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Please-help-HHA-s-is-your-company-recruitment-office/t374120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Please-help-HHA-s-is-your-company-recruitment-office/t374120/p1 2013-05-02 14:10:57.0 [QUOTE who="SmilelyT in New York, New York"]To the administrators at Salcare Home Care Services I have been a HHA since 11/11 and I have worked for two different agencies. The first agency always made sure I worked full time however they always gave me cases of addicts and one whom had the dealer enter their home. I resigned from them and started working with this second agency. June will be a year that I will be working for them. However, since working for them, they only gave me part time cases. I have since started working with another facility just to carry over more needed hours for money and I found out this agency does not care for their employees to have another job. They fired several people for that. I only work 12 hours a week and have been since October last year. It was only cases they gave me for a person who was sick or on vacation which still was not enough hours for the week with me. They only have 2, 4, and 6 hour cases for the time being and many are three times a week. What I want to know from you is, if you really treat your employees right as stated above? I do not take unnecessary days off and I follow procedures. I like to keep my record clean. However, I do think this agency is trying their best to find any cause to fire me because they are upset that I am employed with another company.[/QUOTE] Thank you for writing to me. You can ask for Karla in the office and leave your phone number with her so I can contact you if you are already an employee for the company. We do not decide how many hours each case runs. That is up to the vendor who assigns the case to the agency. We also understand that many aides will work with more than one agency in order to fill their hours necessary to make a living. Our employees are an investment in the company. If you are satisfied and do your job, it reflects on the quality of services the company provides. We have many employees who have been with us for many years. http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Please-help-HHA-s-is-your-company-recruitment-office/t374120/p1 http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/home-health-aide/Please-help-HHA-s-is-your-company-recruitment-office/t374120/p1 2013-05-02 13:37:44.0 [QUOTE who="Salcare Home Health Care Services Inc in New York, New York"]Bring your HHA certificate or PCA certificate and come apply at Salcare Home Health Services, Inc. 130 W. 42nd Street, Suite 650, New York, NY (between 6th Avenue and Broadway - all trains go to the Times Square area). We pay $9.50 plus benefits. Applications taken Monday through Friday, 9 AM through 3 PM. Been in business over 20 years. We treat you right![/QUOTE] To the administrators at Salcare Home Care Services I have been a HHA since 11/11 and I have worked for two different agencies. The first agency always made sure I worked full time however they always gave me cases of addicts and one whom had the dealer enter their home. I resigned from them and started working with this second agency. June will be a year that I will be working for them. However, since working for them, they only gave me part time cases. I have since started working with another facility just to carry over more needed hours for money and I found out this agency does not care for their employees to have another job. They fired several people for that. I only work 12 hours a week and have been since October last year. It was only cases they gave me for a person who was sick or on vacation which still was not enough hours for the week with me. They only have 2, 4, and 6 hour cases for the time being and many are three times a week. What I want to know from you is, if you really treat your employees right as stated above? I do not take unnecessary days off and I follow procedures. I like to keep my record clean. However, I do think this agency is trying their best to find any cause to fire me because they are upset that I am employed with another company.