Need Advice....

Hi there,
I came from the OR into HH. One thing that will be incredibly in your favor is your excellent sterile technique. The homes we go to can be pretty messy, the cat is jumping up on the patient, there might not be a clean place to even put your bag down. So that will help you. Also it is very similiar because you are with one patient for however long focusing on that patient, meanwhile constantly thinking ahead and figuring out what you need for later in the case, or day for HH. Good luck with your interview! Alot of patients I see in HH have had surgery and are always so curious about what goes on....they like to hear about how the surgeon does such and such.

Don't be offended by what I wrote. I've never worked in the OR but I have quite of bit experience as a trauma RN in the ER. So I understand what you mean. When I said controlled environment....I mean that we don't have everything we need right there at the time that we need it. I understand that the OR requires constant prioritization. The OR nurses that I've hired really dislike the fact that they are never really "finished" with that patient until the end of the cert period and they don't like the feeling that their work day never ends. As you know, with home health, you prioritize and do what you can get completed in your day. You shift everything else to the next day and it starts all over. Some people just don't like that type of feeling. I've hired 2 OR nurses in the past year. Neither have worked out. My comments come from the issues that they struggled with. Both were very sharp nurses. Home Health just wasn't for them.