Home Health Nurse pay??

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Hi! So, I'm going to be interviewing for Home Health positions over the next few weeks. I'm an RN in the ICU of a large hospital in Oklahoma City.(1 year experience)

What kind of pay should I be looking for?
I currently make $25.87/hr, or around $4.2k/month without overtime, and don't really want a pay cut, lol. So I'm wondering what other Home Health Nurses make, and what I should ask for in interviews.

Any tips or insight into my situation would be much appreciated, Thanks!!

Specializes in WCC.

Home health visits at minimum should be 30 minutes not 45 that's per medicare guidelines and must include a skilled intervention or a teaching on your documentation. I'm not sure how one would do the 12-14 patient's in a day.. Don't you have to have your patient's electronically sign the visit note that leaves a time stamp or is everything done on paper? 2-3 hour visit sounds like you are spending waaaaay too much time at the patient's home. Are you going over the entire diabetes chapter from your A&P book? Maybe you need to rethink your approach and start using handouts or something. Most of the patient's just want you to come in make a little small talk, do what you got to and leave. Yes there are some who are long winded but should only be an hour max. I usually just bring in a pen and paper make notes and chart outside in the car or when i get home in front of the TV.

$65-85/visit $130-160/SOC here in Northern California. I work for two agencies and pick up from the other if one is slow.

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Our medicare patients are, but we dont actually have many of those. Most of our patients are Medicaid and they pay in 15 minute med admin visits. Plus we have BID patients so some nurses do upwards of 80 visits per week by doing both visits daily. We do not have visit signatures at this time, we are implementing that next month. Most of our patients are psych so signatures will be difficult, as many of them are paranoid about such things.

Does anyone of you use Riversoft software to document your home visits? or Axxess? Which is better?

Specializes in Progressive Care, Sub-Acute, Hospice, Geriatrics.
On 9/19/2019 at 9:40 PM, Okie51 said:

Hi! So, I'm going to be interviewing for Home Health positions over the next few weeks. I'm an RN in the ICU of a large hospital in Oklahoma City.(1 year experience)

What kind of pay should I be looking for?
I currently make $25.87/hr, or around $4.2k/month without overtime, and don't really want a pay cut, lol. So I'm wondering what other Home Health Nurses make, and what I should ask for in interviews.

Any tips or insight into my situation would be much appreciated, Thanks!!

26 bucks as an ICU nurse at a hospital is very cheap. I currently make 28 at a SNF. I would ask for a pay increase. Even 28 bucks is still cheap imo.

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