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I. How We Work in Washington. Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services. APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
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I suggest you go to your licensing agency's Website and look up what credentials you need to do the job you want to do. As a hemodialysis technician you are already a CNA but certified in dialysis only, am I correct? If so you may have to take additional courses to become a CNA to work for long term care/private duty. Good luck! Dialysis is hard work.
Reginalester, very impressive resume !! You are doing everything right. You have a lot of different options in regard for work besides caregiving.
As for marketing yourself, check with your County/City Council on Aging and ask if they can recommend where you can promote yourself.
Check and see if your area has "Nextdoor.com" and market yourself there. It is all timing, being in the right place at the right time when someone is looking for a qualified caregiver.
There is a sample of a caregiver's contract on AgingCare, let me see if I can find it for you. Don't know if this will work as it is mainly for family or friends who are taking care of a love one and getting paid.
Update: sorry, I can no longer find the sample of the caregiver's contract. Since the website had been updated, so many things I can no longer put my hands on :(
Thank you.. I am currently a hemodialysis technicians and a certified nurse assisted. I work at a hospital and a home health agency, I just received my homemaker and companion provider agency license 2 months ago.. I am now trying to figure out how to move forward.. I'm currently working on business cards so I can promote myself.. do I have to contact ahca for contract? I'm just lost right now and I'm starting to give up a little
Don’t give up! Why do you feel that way? With your background there will always be a position for you in health care. As per my answer above. I am unclear of your goals and why you think they are not attainable.
If you go with an agency they pay your workers comp and most offer health insurance.
If you want to be private pay realize then you will have to pay malpractice insurance out of pocket. not to mention income tax etc. if you are setting yourself as a corporation you *may or may not* need a lawyer but definitely work with a CPA to set this up.
Reginalester, first check with your State/County/City/Town government offices to see what is required to be a for-hire caregiver. It also depends if you will be an "independent contractor" who will need to pay estimated quarterly taxes, or if you will be using a payroll company who will take out the required payroll taxes.
It is great that you want to be a professional caregiver. Have you taken any classes in relation to caregiving, first aid, etc? Those would be a plus when you are marketing yourself. Or you could start out with a caregiving Agency to give yourself some experience, then go on your own.
By proceeding, I agree that I understand the following disclosures:
I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights.
APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
I agree that:
A.
I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
B.
APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
C.
APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site.
D.
If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records.
E.
This E-Sign Acknowledgement and Authorization applies to these Disclosures and all future Disclosures related to APFM's services, unless I revoke my authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time (except where we have already disclosed information before receiving your revocation.) This authorization will expire after one year.
F.
You consent to APFM's reaching out to you using a phone system than can auto-dial numbers (we miss rotary phones, too!), but this consent is not required to use our service.
Good luck! Dialysis is hard work.
As for marketing yourself, check with your County/City Council on Aging and ask if they can recommend where you can promote yourself.
Check and see if your area has "Nextdoor.com" and market yourself there. It is all timing, being in the right place at the right time when someone is looking for a qualified caregiver.
There is a sample of a caregiver's contract on AgingCare, let me see if I can find it for you. Don't know if this will work as it is mainly for family or friends who are taking care of a love one and getting paid.
Update: sorry, I can no longer find the sample of the caregiver's contract. Since the website had been updated, so many things I can no longer put my hands on :(
If you go with an agency they pay your workers comp and most offer health insurance.
If you want to be private pay realize then you will have to pay malpractice insurance out of pocket. not to mention income tax etc. if you are setting yourself as a corporation you *may or may not* need a lawyer but definitely work with a CPA to set this up.
It is great that you want to be a professional caregiver. Have you taken any classes in relation to caregiving, first aid, etc? Those would be a plus when you are marketing yourself. Or you could start out with a caregiving Agency to give yourself some experience, then go on your own.