Maxim Healthcare reviews

Do not let the "Recruiter" title fool you! You spend 10% of your time actually recruiting. The rest of your time is spent putting out fires. A typical day as a recruiter will consist of dealing with unprofessional nurses/cnas who no call/no show or call out for their shifts and then communicating that to the patient's family, who usually is far from enjoyable to speak to. Then you get to take the on call phone home and continue to put out fires, even at 2am! Other day to day duties include administrative tasks like payroll or filing nurses notes. One thing Maxim stresses is that you wear many hats, probably because of the high turnover rate within the company. I found myself doing the job of 3 people (payroll, personnel coordinator, and even account manager). I'm all for being cross trained, but when you have to take over a complete role because someone quit, a pay increase is expected.

Now corporate wants more profit and is squeezing it from local offices by cutting home health nurse salaries and hours. fires anyone who won't toe the line, even if it means unsafe environment for patients and mistreatment of nurses. The recruiters are poorly trained. The few good ones I met left for much better jobs. High turn over rate. Why do they let non medical people make patient assignments? The clinical supervisors are so unprofessional and have cost the company clients and lost referrals from hospitals. Plus they are extremely rude and condescending to outside nurses (ones who work in the homes).