Home Health Nursing Pay?

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I was told by a few nurses here in St. Louis that they made $45 per visit (
RN
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I have always been interested in community based work and would love to do this but want to make sure it is profitable. Any feedback? Are there usually enough patients/visits to make a decent living?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

You might try posting your question in the Home Health Forum. You will likely get more/quicker answers.

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Specializes in NICU, Pediatrics.

I am a home care nurse. I don't really know about the nurses who see tons of different patients in one shift. I work with one patient for 12 hours. The pay is not great, but I work for kind of a shady company. $16.50/hour for RNs and $14.50/hour for LPNs.

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It is easier to get steady pay if you do extended care, unless you are salaried. People who do intermittent visits often have added expenses related to doing work on their own time and unreimbursed use of car expenses. Not all agencies pay mileage, or they pay less than other employers. I like extended care because I know what I will be making if I work 40 hours a week or if I work 16 hours a week.

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I work for a home health agency,I get paid 50 dollars per visit and 65 for an admission.I only have 8 patients per month since I started as a new grad couple months ago (in June).With that said more experienced nurses have a lot more patients and they get good money,also they work somewhere else too like nursing home,hospitals.

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I work for a home health agency,I get paid 50 dollars per visit and 65 for an admission.I only have 8 patients per month since I started as a new grad couple months ago (in June).With that said more experienced nurses have a lot more patients and they get good money,also they work somewhere else too like nursing home,hospitals.

If you have experience, can you do this full time? Is there enough patients?

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You might try posting your question in the Home Health Forum. You will likely get more/quicker answers.

I cannot find that for some reason?

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.

https://allnurses.com/home-health-nursing/

find the tabs near the top of the page, click on Specialty, Nursing Specialties, and off you go.

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If you have experience, can you do this full time? Is there enough patients?

yes definitely.

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Some nurses in my area have complained that they are getting only two or three visits a day in some weeks. Can greatly diminish your take home pay when you are relying on intermittent visit rates.

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Specializes in PP, Pediatrics, Home Health.

I work 2 casual home health care RPN positions and I get paid per visit and am fortunate enough to have one company reimburse me for my mileage.I say its worth it to me just to work the casual jobs.The pay varies, but I do make a pretty decent living from it.You can pick up a lot of shifts too because many home health care agencies are elect to work.So you work when you want and however many shifts you want it's easy to pick up shifts.

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Some nurses in my area have complained that they are getting only two or three visits a day in some weeks. Can greatly diminish your take home pay when you are relying on intermittent visit rates.

Is it possible to work for two companies at the same time in this case?

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