Home Care Coordinator Info please!

caliotter3 · Mar 31, 2011

I would choose a patient care job over this one if looking for lower stress. Extended care cases usually provide the lowest stress environment.

Campbell'sSoupCan · Mar 31, 2011

Thanks bunches for your response. I was offered the job but....gotta think about it. I do not want all the weight gain and hot flashes associated with $$$. I am just way past that at this point in my life. I know I sound 100 yrs old, but I'm just a baby 45 y/o! But my life has been hard (I know wah,wah...), and I can't swing the stress like I did 15 years ago.

The position is for getting the referral information started for Hospice, Home Health, and the IV cases. It is with a major hospital. Some travel is involved, salary...so you think that sounds like a doozy huh?

Thanks Love for the input....

caliotter3 · Mar 31, 2011

Just sounds like too much effort on your part to be considered low stress. I do extended care, which is routine care for stable patients. Repetitious, easy (on the right cases), boring even. If you get a peds case that is night shift, you can draw a pay check for sitting in a rocking chair watching a baby sleep all night. As long as the baby is stable, you can't get much lower stress than that unless you get paid to stay at home.

Campbell'sSoupCan · Mar 31, 2011

That's funny...paid to stay home. Hmmm, maybe I will check into what you are doing. No Ped experience under this belt though...

caliotter3 · Mar 31, 2011

No ped experience is kind of scary at first, but as time goes on, you get used to it. When you get right down to it, you do the same things you would do in other settings, assess using pediatric parameters, call the doctor when you need to, follow the plan of care, and change diapers. The family is almost always helpful.

Campbell'sSoupCan · Mar 31, 2011

I worked in PACU and got a Peds case once. It scared the living heck out of me! The nurse training me told me how children do not give the warning signs that adults do when they are crashing, like B/P dropping...She told me kids just all of a sudden, out of nowhere crash. That was 15 yrs ago, and I have avoided Peds ever since. last week I was asked about maybe seeing some Peds cases ( my neighbor is a Maximum(?) recruiter)...I kindly declined.

KateRN1 · Apr 1, 2011

This sounds like a sales job. If it is and you're wanting to avoid stress, this is not it. Quotas, leads, calls, ugh. More stress than humanly imaginable. I have no idea how our "liasons" (aka marketers) manage to get through a day.

Agree with Caliotter that patient care may be a better idea if you're looking to decrease your stress. Consider other nursing positions that don't necessarily involve direct care, too. I've seen a couple of ads lately for ALF/ILF directors, senior community directors (think Golden Girls-style subdivision), etc.