Acute Care Experience?

[raebabelvn, LVN]

Its been such a long time since I've posted here! Its nice to be back :)

Anywho... question for all my fellow HH nurses! I graduated back in '08 with my LVN. I've been working in CA off and on since in HH. I started with intermittent visits with adults and geriatrics, and ended up with single cases in peds.

Well, I'm currently between cases with my agency, and its not looking promising that I'll be put on a new one anytime soon. Being a one car family, and having an infant, I can't travel far and leave my wonderful stay-at-home husband stranded for too long in case of an emergency. There's another local agency and they were advertising for an intermittent position with adults/geriatrics. I figured I'd inquire and switch things up again.

I was told (rather rudely as well) that my 4 years of HH experience, including the intermittent visit experience was all moot, and Medicare requires all LVN's to have 1 year of acute care experience. I've never heard of this! I know about the 1 year of general experience rule to work in HH, but not acute care. I even spent a good hour searching on google and couldn't find a single thing! Is this a newer regulation???