Hard work, a patient-centered drive to succeed, and a LOT of patience with management may take you far.
Pros
- Plenty of room to grow from the clinical side. If you're an RN, continue to grow your home health skills and in a couple years, you may become a Clinical Supervisor and eventually a Director of Clinical Services. All depends on the 3 things mentioned in my title. - Off-site training for a region's Clinical Supervisors is sometimes held, and a great bonding experience. - If you get along with your coworkers, it's a pretty good atmosphere. - As a field nurse or a Clinical Supervisor or DOCS, work closely with the Recruiters, they work their butts off and know more about the patients than you do. Working with them as a team made staffing and admin work so much easier and more fun. - The company is enthusiastic about nurses who show initiative and reward well for one's loyalty. - Cases are long-term and managing them isn't too difficult, staffing is though! So, seriously, BE KIND AND RESPECT YOUR RECRUITERS. They are an essential part of your team.
Cons
- Office culture varies from office to office, and I never knew of two offices that got along with each other. Lots of rivalry. - All of the management need to take a management/leadership/respect course and demonstrate their understanding in their actions in the office. - Office culture in my office was terrible. Management can be too immature for their positions and it created an environment of distrust and negativity. - Management plays favorites depending on his/her mood. - Favoritism is so obvious sometimes I can't believe I worked there. - Everyone is underpaid. Field staff have almost NO opportunity for raises unless they decide to work for PRIVATE insurance cases only. - While at Maxim, I never felt that we were patient-centered or even field staff centered.
