My team of registered field nurses has no work. Okay, we have some work but not very much, as in not enough to meet productivity. They hired new nurses last year just as things were slowing down. Now things are so bad- like the hunger games vying for appointments. Forget the bonus, it no longer exists. They are hiring yet again but we have no work! What the heck? What’s going on? My manager has no answer for lack of work, it’s almost like she is pretending the issue doesn’t exist. Any thoughts on what the strategy is here?
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@bh Nursing in the field of course. Optum has home health, hospice, psych and case managers who all work in the field.
@a5 Internal billing is basically 100% of businesses work you know ...
New hires at lower wages makes sense to upper mgt
@OP RN field nurse doing what exactly ?
Well according to the VP KM- everything is great. So why worry.
@a4 Double the 82k to estimate the "total compensation" number that is used to calc costs for the biz. You're right though, with the variables you've laid out, it doesn't make much sense to be hiring.
@a4 because they turn around and bill UHC twice that. Internal funny money shuffle
@a3 Agreed, I’m personally in a safe spot financially but I can’t help but wonder who is benefiting -and how- by running this thing into the ground. Some simple math- 82,000 annual per nurse, 1000/month bonus give or take since i can no longer achieve this, and 500/month gas stipend x 20 nurses = this is close to 2 million dollars a year overhead. Just why?
take the paid downtime to apply to new jobs - win/win