The Pros of Home Health Care Nursing
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Watch as I discuss 8 pros of working as a home health care nurse! This may be a field you have never thought of before, so listen up and see if this interests you!
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Also consider home health care can be like visiting hospice where you do have multiple patients to see per day, and the other factor whether it is one or several is that patient homes can be everything from beautiful, comfortable, and clean to filled with smoke, dust, dirt... hording settings, tight spaces, etc. Now home healthcare for children will hopefully not be smoke filled but healthcare for adults.....
Great points to consider!
Sounds like you are describing Private duty nursing, not necessarily home health. Private duty nursing is usually a 1:1 setting all day. Home health nursing (i am one) w/ a certified agency: companies will have you seeing usually 4-6 patients in an 8-10 hr day. The charting can be extensive and overwhelming to get all of it done. Lower stress than a hospital, but still stressful in other ways. I wouldn't say "less germs" is always accurate either. Sometimes we have to go to hoarder homes, bed bugs, walking into homes that reek of cat or human urine.
Or cigarettes smoke
I’m a home health RN with an agency and we provide 1:1 care. Some patients have 12 hours per day 24 hope, 10, etc. depending on their insurance. I like it better than some other settings that I’ve worked in the past.
I agree. She is talking about private duty home care, not what Ive been doing as a HH RN for over 25 years now. I think the amount of patients they expect us to see & the copious documentation to complete in a day is nearly impossible most days.....and often has me ready to give up. 😢
No. She's talking about being a CNA HHA. We do 1 resident a day. Nit agency! Agency can send you to multiple residents' homes a day. I do 1 resident two days a week for 12 hour shifts.
I'm a home health CNA. I enjoy it a lot
Just discovered your channel and have been enjoying your videos.
However, it concerns me when you talk about "Home Health " nurses. Ive been a HH RN for over 26 years, including as a travel nurse for 6 of those years. But I feel you are talking about "private duty" Home Care (Health) nursing.
However as a Home Health nurse (with the multiple agencies out there like Amedisis, Caretenders, Kinded @ Home, LLC, etc) I have to see an average of 6 patients a day at their home, using basically all of my med surg skills. And most days doing anywhere from 1-3 very lengthy admissions . I also have to make mutiple phone calls & emails daily to MDs, caregivers, PT, OT, etc. I have to drop off labs and rush to get to the next patient's home on time. And after I finish seeing my patients for the day, especially if Ive had admissions that day(which we usually do) then I usually still have at least a couple of more hours at home to complete my documentation, if not longer. And often by the time I get home, Ive already been in the field for nearly my entire 8 hour day, especially if Ive had patients that were 30 miles apart, causing me to have to be in my car driving a good portion of my day...So its a very busy & stressful nursing job IMO and I find many agree in our private FB groups.
I will say that when I first became a HH nurse in the mid 90s, I did consider it almost a dream job. I loved the autonomy and being able to spend 1 on 1 time with my patients and the documentation wasnt bad at all. But when they introduced the "OASIS" assessment & documentation everything completely changed for the worse. The amount of documentation we have to do now has had me in tears many times. And it absoulutely effects my work/life balance. I find ut to be an extremely stressful nursing specialty. Thankfully as a travel nurse in HH , I now only work a few months a year.
And it has been a lucrative specialty, especially as a travel nurse, because Home Health agencies struggle so hard to maintain staff nurses, therefore, they need the help, same as in so many other areas of nursing these days.
As a RN, I've also taken part time jobs throughout my nursing career as a "private duty home care nurse" , which I believe is actually what you are referring to.
And I do agree that it is a much lower stress job as a nurse and quite rewarding. You are usually in the home with one patient your entire shift and the documentation is pretty minimal in comparison to any other nursing job Ive ever worked. But it also does not pay nearly as well either.
But just thought you might want to clarify the difference in what you mean when you say... "Home Health" nurse :)
Hi, Stephanie! Thanks so much for watching, I'm glad you enjoy my content! Thanks so much for sharing your experience and insight, I sincerely appreciate your thoughts and the clarification!
Home health was the best thing that has ever happened to me. It was the best choice while I completed my LPN to RN program. I scheduled my own case load and negotiated my own pay. When school got tough I decreased my case load to less patients, even down to one to complete my last incredibly challenging course. I was still able to pay my bills and focus on school and even study at the patients home. Home health was truly a blessing!!!! It was such a good choice I am thinking about continuing in this field as a RN. We shall see :)
That's so great to hear! Very nice, I'd love to hear how it goes if you decide to continue in it!
Home health is hell full time!!! You never truly rest!! . Pray pray pray. Different demons in Different homes
I do feel like you need bedside/acute care nursing experience in order to be a good home health nurse because then you know the difference between acute and chronic. I've had numerous home health and hospice nurses send us patients to the ER for their hospice illness or chronic issue because they didn't know what acute illness looks like.
That is a great point! I would completely agree with you! Thanks for the comment :)
Thank you for the great conversation! Home Health nursing is a rewarding career and can be a great way to make a difference, all while in the comfort of the patient's homes!
Thank you for watching, Krista!
Not low stress for me? I see 40 patients a week and drive around 70-100 miles a day. The documentation is surreal
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I agree. This isn’t a true depiction of home health care.
Is this for a prn home health? I can see that being less stress, but if you are an employee part or full time for the home health agency- maybe not as a case manager but as a resource nurse or admission nurse you have 4 to 5 patients daily often different zones…and are going into homes by yourself, sometimes they will assign you 30 to 40 miles from each patient. Charting can be lengthy in home health too if you have a change in condition or do oasis scoring and need to set up a care plan. Also trying to navigate where to do skills in a home can be challenging and where to place items in a sterile field as not all homes are the same, and critical thinking by yourself is needed as patients sometimes may need to go to the ER and such..
And perhaps wear and tear on your own vehicle can be a con if you drive more miles per week than to a regular job
This is for just general home health, I am not talking about hours specifically. You make some really valid points! This video is specifically focusing on just pros of home health nursing but if I make a video on cons of home health nursing I may have to include some of your points. Thank you for the comment!
First of all, I'm so thankful for your videos they help me often! I graduated with my bachelors in nursing back in 2012, I did not pass my NCLEX after graduation, ended up going a different route than I landed a position with early intervention help Me grow for over 5 years. Decided to take my NCLEX just for giggles and passed it on a whim a few months ago!! I've since accepted a full time med surg residency position at a hospital however the commute is an hour and I quickly learned that 12 hours turned into a 15 hour day real quick with my commute, so I am missing out on my children and struggling with that. I don't qualify for a part-time position with that company at this point yet. As much as I enjoy the skills I am thinking about trying to find something more flexible and closer to home for that reason, right now I'm currently considering a WIC position or home health. I have someone who is willing to hire me and expand my skills. I appreciate this video, definitely lots of insight!
Hey Karah! WHAT A STORY! A wonderful story to hear! Congratulations on where you are now :) I have not heard of a WIC position, what would that consist of?
@@Katherine_Ann thank you so much! I'm in shock nearly every day 🤣 So a "WIC" nurse is a RN employed under a public health agency (Health Department, Community Action or Jobs and Family Services) to run the Women Infant and Children program -- certifying mothers of infants eligible for assistance obtaining nutritious food and formula, they also provide the community education on breastfeeding, nutrition and smoking cessation.
Another typo of nurse you may or may not be familiar with that go in the home are Early Intervention Development Specialist- typically employed by a County Board of Developmental Disabilities to work with infant and toddlers under the age of three that have a medical diagnosis or developmental delay. I worked with this program as a service coordinator prior to obtaining my nursing license 😊
@@karahd7251 Wow, that's interesting! Sounds like it could be a very fulfilling career and you could make quite the impact!
Going into it due to injuries from different work I did before but looking forward to it as well I'll be able to take care if a family member can you go to travel nurseing right out of school as well? Or do you need lots of experience first
Hey there! As a travel nurse you need experience, typically 2 years! Some are taking "new grads" at one year. With home health nursing typically you have to have experience, but I have heard that some may take new grads right out of school.
i loved home health. i loved the autonomy but hated the dirty homes/the safety part of it. You never know who is in the home or what lifestyle the patient or their family members has. Due to thati'm back doing bedside.
Thanks for your thoughts, Kesa! Those are definitely things that need to be considered when going into that field!
Do RNs work in home healthcare? Like an LPN job? I mean do you clean the patients and bath them, etc or do you have a CNA in the house to do that?
I'm just confused about what an RN would do in home health
Yes RNs do perform those tasks in the home care setting. They may also perform wound care dressing changes, central line care, IV therapy, etc!
Rn takes care of the care plan follow ups, admission pic line care.
I took care of my grandma in her home and we got really close. The nursing home setting isn’t for me at all. I really want to do pediatric home health. With my experience with working with kids in the school system. And I have done home health as a caregiver. The only thing it’s not consistent. When I do become a nurse home health is where I’ll like to be.
Very cool, Kayla! That sounds like a very fulfilling career.
Seriously considering of going to school for nursing post HS to become a FT RN for my sibling who receives nursing care in the home
Wow, Ryan. What a selfless reason to want to pursue a career in nursing!
Any update on your nursing goal?
@@JosephineEze79 got in but decided a different route first then re apply
What is the different of caregiver & home nurse..
Hi there, s caregiver doesnt have to have a license but a home Nurse actually has to have their RN license.
Great video
Thank you Barbara!
I am headache of home health.. No test and no rest, 😵
Do you know anything about Correctional Nursing?
Hi P.J! I have worked with many nurses who have done correctional nursing, and just know from them what it is like.
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How about 1 nurse, 30 patients. Or 49 patients!
That's a crazy ratio!
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