As someone currently working in Home Health and increasingly frustrated with regulations that prevent me from giving care that patients deserve, I'm interested in what kind of business an RN could manage independently.
Ideally, what I'd love to do is this:
Go to client's homes.
If they need help with managing meds, then I'd help with that. (Setting up pill boxes, reminders, compliance, looking for interactions and adverse effects, etc)
Educate on chronic illnesses, health promotion, and illness prevention
Can y'all help point me to resources to find out the legality of this? I've looked at my state's nursing act, but it's so hard to translate that into what I can do on my own.
I wouldn't be interested, at least at first, in billing insurance companies. I'd really only want to do private pay. But then it seems that SOMEONE would be regulating me. If it's not Medicare/Medicaid/CMS, who is it?
Thanks for direction. I've been trying to do web searches and am just not using the right words to find stuff. This forum has been inspirational! And I'm probably looking at the wrong threads, but the most relevant replies I'm seeing to what I want are several years old.
Thank you NedRN, starting something new and not knowing what you don't know is rather intimidating. Hope that it will work out. Any suggestions on whom you use for your general/malpractice/liability insurance?
I know these posts are rather old. But I wanted to know if anyone started their respective businesses yet ? If so, how did you go about getting your first contracts? Are you working from home or office building? Did you fine any valuable resources to assist you on your journey that really helped?
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Thank you NedRN, starting something new and not knowing what you don't know is rather intimidating. Hope that it will work out. Any suggestions on whom you use for your general/malpractice/liability insurance?