Pros
flexible schedule and that is about it.
Cons
I just signed on with this company. Uprooted my life and relocated across the country. Was told I would be working full time 40 hours, with a STR population such as ortho and stroke patients. However that is not happening and the patients are horrible. Not rehab appropriate whatsoever. I am being told I cannot discharge and need to find other areas to work on even tho all areas have been assessed. I have also been told that when patients are not ready for therapy, due to having to be cleaned up by nursing or not having finished eating or whatever the reason, that I have to clock out and not get paid for that time because of productivity. That will not happen - Patients should be ready. They are there for rehab so they can go home and return to their lives! In terms of productivity, they do NOT take into consideration discharges, writing up evals, documentation, meetings with other therapists or nurses. They also try to make therapists more productive by giving them ipads however it makes us less productive. It is the worst idea ever! You have to use your fingers to navigate screens and a million drop down menus and prewritten goals that are not even in the correct tense. Changing all of that takes forever! And if you do not have a keyboard you have to use your fingers to type on the mini screen. It kicks you out a million times a day while you are typing. And you are not allowed to use any computer to document. Charts are not ready when doing a chart review for an eval, you have to hunt down people for hospital records. There are only 2 (yes 2!) walkers in the entire facility that is not even half full. The company keeps saying it is because they are new. Well shouldnt you be prepared for the clientele you are going to serve before you open your doors? You also have to wait for nursing to give you a wheelchair for new admissions! I went into a patients room to complete an eval and there was no walker or wheelchair to be found. I had to take one of the two walkers in the facility and then had to wait for nursing to bring a wheelchair since they are the only ones allowed to obtain wheelchairs. All of that should be done and in a patients room before a therapist walks into the room, especially if the company is worried about productivity. They also have fancy equipment found in an outpatient setting that is not appropriate whatsoever for their patients. Its horrible. No adaptive equipment. Everytime a therapist requests basic items like a dressing stick, the answer is always the same - We are new and just working on it. Unacceptable, and all of that should have been squared away before admitting patients. Give your therapists basic items to perform their job! Everything I was told by the recruiter was a lie. Do not work for this company, they will tell you anything to get you in the door. Based on my personal experience working in snfs, I still feel like therapist should unionize like the nurses. This is just insane, unethical, and slave labor.
