can i be a hha while going to nursing school?

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can i be a HHA while going to nursing school? i am doing my prerequisites like human physiology anatomy terminology and biology how much can i earn as a HHA i read somewhere with experience you can get paid $25.00 a hour

:uhoh3: is that true? yay or nay?let me know Please i will appreciate that.

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I think that's $25 per visit including drive time, not per hour.

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I can tell you that right now. You will not get 25hr as a home heath aid. I know cause i been that for 5years. Throughout my nursing school journey. The most you will make is 10 or 11 hourly with home heath care agency. Or you can aslo work private depend on the family if they not cheap than you can get pay like $15. I hope that elpwith your question

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

You can certainly work as a HHA, but you most certainly will not earn $25/hour.

HHA is an unlicensed position, and as such it is the lowest paying position in home health. You'll likely make $2/hour more than you'd make flipping fast food burgers, whatever that wage is in your region (varies significantly based on cost of living).

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Specializes in Management, Med/Surg, Clinical Trainer.

HHA is great experience to get while in Nursing School.

As to pay, I think YMMV. I worked as an HHA in MA while in nursing school. I started at 12 bucks an hour, but once I completed the first semester basic nursing and labs - which was equal to the HHA cert in the companies eyes - my pay was increased to $18.

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
HHA is great experience to get while in Nursing School.

As to pay, I think YMMV. I worked as an HHA in MA while in nursing school. I started at 12 bucks an hour, but once I completed the first semester basic nursing and labs - which was equal to the HHA cert in the companies eyes - my pay was increased to $18.

Again, this is regional.... in my area, LPNs make $18/hour; in some areas of the south, RNs are making that.

MA's cost of living is significantly higher, so "unskilled" jobs pay more there than they do in other areas. Without knowing where the OP lives, we have no idea what a typical "unskilled" wage would be there.

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