Can a new grad be a HH nurse?

suzanne4, RN · Feb 23, 2006

I have 5 yrs. experience as an LPN in a nursing home and a year and a half doing private duty as an LPN. Would this count as experience for me?
I believe I would really enjoy doing home health visits where you spend 30 minutes to an hour in each patient's home and you move on to the next patient.

There are very few home health visits for the LPN, the orders are usually for the RN or the CNA. It is going to depend on where you are living, as well as your experience doing treatments, etc.

Jo Dirt · Feb 23, 2006

There are very few home health visits for the LPN, the orders are usually for the RN or the CNA. It is going to depend on where you are living, as well as your experience doing treatments, etc.

Forgot to add I'm a new grad RN.

blynn · Feb 28, 2006

I was hired as a new grad LPN for homecare. I had worked as a PCA with the same company so I kind of had my foot in the door. I worked in home care for my first four years out of school. I was primarily assigned to just three patients who needed a nighttime caregiver in the house. The hours were long, the pay not overly fabulous. You get to know a patient and their family pretty well, and that *usually* is a good thing, every once in a while you start feeling like maybe you know more than you'd like to about them. It was a good experiance for me, but I eventually felt like I was letting a lot of my other nursing skills 'rust', and about two years ago I took a clinic job.

Jo Dirt · Feb 28, 2006

I was hired as a new grad LPN for homecare. I had worked as a PCA with the same company so I kind of had my foot in the door. I worked in home care for my first four years out of school. I was primarily assigned to just three patients who needed a nighttime caregiver in the house. The hours were long, the pay not overly fabulous. You get to know a patient and their family pretty well, and that *usually* is a good thing, every once in a while you start feeling like maybe you know more than you'd like to about them. It was a good experiance for me, but I eventually felt like I was letting a lot of my other nursing skills 'rust', and about two years ago I took a clinic job.

Know what you mean. That is why I want out of private duty nursing. Looong hours. I can't take being hemmed up in someone's house 12 hours at a time much longer. And, yes, you do get to know more than you really care to about the patient's and their families. You can unwittingly get caught in the middle of some kind of family turmoil and it just adds to stress you don't need. I really like the idea of driving house to house, and in Tennessee they will not hire you to be a visiting nurse unless you are an RN, so that is what I am hoping to do when I get my license.

powernurse · Mar 3, 2006

I was a new grad RN with no lpn background and I did really well in homecare. And I loved every minute.... That was in Connecticut and they hired an LPN with no prior home care experience and she only made $1 less than me.... which I thought was pretty good

Jo Dirt · Mar 4, 2006

I was a new grad RN with no lpn background and I did really well in homecare. And I loved every minute.... That was in Connecticut and they hired an LPN with no prior home care experience and she only made $1 less than me.... which I thought was pretty good

Do you still do home health?