Read this first, 35k sign on is NOT worth it! - RN HOME CARE Duke Health Employee Review

4.0
Aug 6, 2021
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Pros

Excellent Benefits You will learn a lot no matter how long you have been a nurse Vast amount of endless resources The pay was decent Co Workers were awesome The patients are amazing people going through really tough health issues

Cons

The paperwork is rediculous and unnecessary. I have worked for several home health agencies and never had the amount of paperwork required here. An admission takes a minimum of 4 hours, no matter what. You are salaried. They will tell you that you are eligible for OT, but don’t count on it, you will be working 7 days a week just attempting to keep up with your productivity. NO home health agency operates like Duke. Also, very unorganized, your schedule may change several times in a day. You will have many meetings to attend weekly that are mandatory, you will not receive productivity for these. You may have to drive from Roxboro to Chapel Hill to Wake Forest, no one cares how many miles you are driving and you had better have your notes finished within 24 hours, routine visits prior to midnight Home Care is not on Epic!

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

It's a pretty good starting point if you are wanting to get your foot in the door working on the administrative side of healthcare. Engaging with patients can be very rewarding and if you enjoy customer service (especially hospitality or food service) this can be a great role that feels similar to interacting with patrons, but you don't have to work weekends, there's very good benefits, and you don't have to work 12 hours a day.

Cons

There are a lot of issues both with Duke Hospital and the Eye Center itself. Duke University Hospital is on the college campus so you will have to pay for parking. You aren't paid well, even with the $20 minimum wage increase, it's still only about $40,000/year but with having to pay for parking... even the cheapest garage at $95 a month, that's $1,140 a year gone from your check. There is no "free" parking even close to the hospital, so they really screw you there. The Eye Center has struggled with processes in the clinic and management is run ragged. There are too many employees that don't care much for the job they are doing and Duke makes it incredibly difficult to hold those employees accountable and for management to make proper layoffs.

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