In March Georgia reported about being gainfully employed at a couple of jobs. It is now time to report on those jobs. Living in Arizona has been a benefit to one of the jobs, since Georgia's nursing license covers a number of states that are part of the nursing compact.
The telephonic health coaching job started out as being for just one employer group that had contracted with Georgia's Oregon employer. The participants were to be in contact at least once, but some would have contact on a fairly regular basis to help them improve their health.
She started out with a list of participants, not knowing if they spoke English or Spanish. When she started calling people, Georgia found out that quite a few of the participants had either given the wrong phone number, had changed their phone number, or had left their sponsoring employer. Back to their employer to try and find the correct number. Over time the contact list for this contracted employer has dwindled quite a bit. Fewer than ten people are currently on that list now.
However, Georgia's Oregon employer gained an additional contract that she was asked to help with. Unlike the first contract, these participants are to be in contact at least once a quarter. All of the first phone calls have been made, and it is now time for the second phone calls.
Now to the next job, to date Georgia has now reviewed the files of 27 doctors who have contracted with "XYZ" insurance company (name has been changed). With all the offices she has gone to, she has yet to see two offices using the same electronic medical record system. Some of the systems are easy to figure out, and others are not quite as intuitive.
It is interesting to see how different offices arrange their files, whether physical or electronic ones. The files in most office are in good condition. However, one office located in another city was in bad shape. The doctor didn't consistently document doing the proper type of assessment. Even worse, Georgia found that the physical files for three family members were mixed together - a real "no no". Georgia pulled the doctor aside, showed him the file confusion, and made some recommendations on how they could easily do the required assessment.
Now that autumn is coming, Georgia decided that she would find some additional companies that would pay her to give flu shots. She found two in an on line search. Applications went in. Phone interviews ensued. She was "hired" by both places as a subcontractor.
One outfit (Flu S - name changed) quickly told her that she needed to have current CPR certification, which could be done online. That sounded okay, so Georgia paid her money and took the less than wonderful class on line. Afterward she heard from the other place (Flu M - name changed), saying that yes, she needed current CPR certification, but she couldn't do it online. Aarrrgh! A class in Yuma was found, paid for, and attended.
The process that Flu S uses to assign nurses to flu clinics is quite different than Flu M uses, not to mention that they serve quite different populations. Flu M sets the entire schedule, presumably for the entire company, and then emails all of the nurses it has on the roster to go and sign up for the clinics where they want to work. Georgia was not surprised to find an email from Flu M a while later saying they were very sorry that nurses were having difficulty with the slowness of the website. (What were they thinking would happen when all those nurses signed onto the website?)
What Georgia did not know when she first signed up with Flu M, was that the shifts were comparatively long - 9 hours are the shortest shifts available Mondays - Saturdays (and Georgia doesn't work on Sundays), and most are 10 hours. The length of shift really turned Georgia off, so she picked over the shifts to find ones that were 9 hours or less. She will still be available for other shifts if Flu M needs help, but she didn't want to tie herself to day after day of long shifts. After all, she wants to stay healthy, and does have two other employers that she contracted with that need to be taken care of first (telephone coaching and file reviews).
Georgia has a few shifts currently scheduled with Flu S, but more may yet come. She needs to sign into the website from time to time to check what is available. They have shorter shifts, and also do screenings, so Georgia would rather work for Flu S.
So Georgia is keeping busy, keeping her nursing license currently, and bringing home a bit of money - all good.
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