Home Health burn out, advice welcome.

[swein]

So I work for a smaller home health agency in the mid west. I am salaried, and it is decent pay, but the drive times between patients can be 2 hours. So I have a very long day trying to make my productivity points. My day typically starts at 6 am when i drop my baby off at the sitter and start my 1.5 to 2 hour drive to my first patient. I get home about 4pm, take care of the baby, put her to bed at 8 and finish charting by 1130. I am on call for 7 days at a time every other week. I only get 4 days off a month. And those days are normally spent catching up on charting. I have done this for almost 2 years and I am burnt out. I am thinking about going to work (2 )16 hour shifts at the nursing home just so I can get some time off.

Any advice would be welcome. Thank you for reading my rant.

[Dlowe]

Oh my Gosh! you are completely speaking my language. I am not glad that others have had to experience this but I feel "validated" I left HH case management after 7years so burnt out I didn't even want to be a nurse anymore.