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I'm sure you've all had this experience... "Attention to detail" is listed as one of the applicant's strengths on a resume that is riddled with errors of all kinds... Makes you wonder...
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Visit our website, [link:www.hospicehavasu.org|Hospice of Havasu] and you'll find a "Help Wanted" link of our application as a PDF on the left hand side of the main page. Hope it helps!
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I copied/pasted the text from the form we just distributed to our employees with an excellent response rate. For whatever it's worth... 2003 Employee Opinion Survey Instructions: Expressing your honest opinions is very important. You can be assur…
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I can see where Don's coming from. Perhaps I was a bit too high on my soapbox when I wrote my first post. However, hospices are indeed recognized as the "professional experts" when it comes to end--of-life care and bereavement as we deal with it on …
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Bereavement experts across the nation have been trying for years to help businesses see the effect grief and loss has in the workplace. In our hospice agency, we frequently offer "Grief in the Workplace" seminars to help supervisors recognize the ph…
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I am in agreement that evaluations do more harm than good -- for volunteers as well as employees. Everything that I have read teaches that these "tools" need to be done away with. How can we get the "powers that be" who REQUIRE them to understand th…
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Our state and federal regulations REQUIRE us to complete annual evaluations on our hospice volunteers. Therefore, we don't have a choice. They are considered "unpaid employees." They have also completed a 30-hour volunteer training course before th…
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>>>In our organization, the staff (several) sit in on interviews and receive a copy of both the resume and the application. (I am not in favor of this large group participation, however I am outvoted at the current time.) As all of these …
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Do you mean competencies? In the healthcare industry, we need to verify that the employees can meet the competencies expected of them. They are very specific (i.e. a variety of procedures, like drawing blood). Our form is simply a checklist with Yes…
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We don't send a letter, we send a pre-printed postcard, though some may think that's too "cold," we're just cost-conscious. Unlike the first reply, we also don't state anything about "qualifications." We are looking for the "best fit" for our agen…
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Thanks very much for all the responses! We are currently experiencing growing pains from a small agency who "knew" each other to a larger employer with a few bad hires. We will look into keyless entry to hopefully save future headaches, but yes, i…
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The EAP is provided as a part of our group insurance plan and does not cost us any extra fee. This is why only ee's covered by our group plan can access the EAP. We don't want it to be that way and I was just wondering if it's legal to only offer t…
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Our agency, with 48 full- and part-time staff members offers $500 per year reimbursement for pre-approved educational expenses across the board. In order to take advantage of this opportunity, the course(s) must be pre-approved by a supervisor. Rei…
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Wow, Don! Sounds like a great insurance plan! Where can I get it for the ees at our agency?
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For what kind of industry? You note that "nothing is working" so perhaps that is your answer. In another area of this forum, I have mentioned the controversial book by Alfie Kohn, "Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A…
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Oh Don, thank you...you hit the nail on the head! We ARE growing; building the very first hospice care in-patient facility in our community within the next year. Everyone else is "so excited" and I'm biting my nails, terrified about having to figu…
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I look to the Forum for answers ;;) With a quick search I found this thread :DD I'm always able to count on you all x:D To provide the brains for my head! O=* Working with a very close-knit, interdisciplinary team (consisting of nurses, social work…
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I'm sorry for not giving enough information... I guess I was especially looking for those annual requirements that would apply to all industries -- like Sexual Harassment. Anyway, we're a hospice care agency, providing care to the terminally ill i…
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I have used [url]http://www.universalbackground.com/[/url] for several years. Good customer service and online access. I checked around about a year ago, and couldn't find anything better at the time. May I ask how the other posters feel about the …
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I work for a non-profit with a community BOD. As a 501(c)(3) organization accepting donations from anyone, it is my understanding that our books are open to anyone who makes a request. Our BOD has fiscal responsibility for our agency and therefore r…
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There are two books to read that give lots of insight on this topic, controversial as it may be. "Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why they backfire and what to do instead" by Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins and also "Punished by Rewards" by Alfie Koh…
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I thank both of you very much. With your help, I was able to find some very good resources. I'm glad I asked! Thanks again.
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We're a hospice agency, caring for terminally ill patients in their own homes. So I guess we're somewhat similar to a nursing home where, unfortunately, abuse sometimes takes place. This request for a special policy however, is very strange to me. W…
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My, my! You are all as wise as I thought! Thank you so much for sharing your opinions. They did help solidify the answer. We held a group interview with each candidate. The consensus was to hire the daughter, not the current ee. I must have the "dif…
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The way I understand "salaried-exempt" is that your wage is always the same no matter how many hours or days you work. I'm sure this answer is too simple.
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Our agency requests MVR's annually directly from the MVD. Our ee's know this print-out is required every year. We do not have them sign anything every time we submit a MVR request to the DMV. They have given permission and signed a FCRA form upon hi…
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Cool... I went to the seminar, too... and my Administrator came along. The two of us had lots to talk about on our drive home. Indeed, it was informative (tho' some of the lawyers talked "over my head"). I learned that now I really have more work t…
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Oh my... I've worked here for six years and have always tossed the expired copies of various certification cards. Keeping all the expired copies just made everything that much harder to find. Now I'm scared! Our surveyors may "ding" me and I can…
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Our insurance company requires us to have ee's verify a current MVR upon hire as well as annually. We state this requirement in our application, which the applicant must intial, and have not had anyone question it (By the way, it's $5 in Arizona if …
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Do you have a dress cody policy? I have seen fingernail length addressed there; even stating they "must be kept to 1/4 inch or less." This is especially true in healthcare. In the office, I don't know, but with 2 physicians in agreement, I would th…