Confused with nursing pay for hhn

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Please explain how a hh nurse gets paid. Do some agencies only pay hourly where others only pay per visit? Do some agencies pay hourly AND per visit?

If an agency pays per visit then how would you make good money?

I currently make $33 at the hospital, bring home around 1800 every 2 weeks.

I live in central NJ. Thanks.

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You will only make money per visit if you have a lot per day and they are relatively close. I've had days where I don't even make 10 an hour due to drive time between patients.

At my agency, I would make a heck of a lot more if I were to be hourly and actually chart at work getting paid. I work on average 6 hours a night on paperwork because I refuse to let it pile up. I can't handle having 20 open charts.

Plus I pay more taxes bc in independent AND the mileage doesn't even cover gas expenses.

I honestly don't know how anyone makes money doing this, unless they are seeing 10+ patients per day, which I will absolutely not do, I don't feel I can safely take on that many per day.

Oh I work part time so I guess I could pull in more money if I did full time. My "part time" is more than 50 hours per week including drive time/chart time. Not willing to give more than that at this time.

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Not all home health is visiting nursing. Private Duty Nursing is paid hourly. I also live in Jersey. I live in cape may county. I work as a peds PDN RN and work 32-50 hours a week (by choice what ever I want my schedule to reflect ) make 1200 gross weekly. Minimum paperwork. One pt per 8-12-16 hour shift (also my preference of schedule depending on my weekly needs.)

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Not all home health is visiting nursing. Private Duty Nursing is paid hourly. I also live in Jersey. I live in cape may county. I work as a peds PDN RN and work 32-50 hours a week (by choice what ever I want my schedule to reflect ) make 1200 gross weekly. Minimum paperwork. One pt per 8-12-16 hour shift (also my preference of schedule depending on my weekly needs.)

Can you change your schedule weekly ?

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I did salary and now do pay per visit. I will make much more doing pay per visit between $40-$80 per visit, plus I'm given a company vehicle and a gas card.

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Can you change your schedule weekly ?

Yes I can. Agency prefers monthly. But if I had to I could change weekly.

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