Home Health or Something

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Hi everyone!!

I graduate next Thursday. I'm looking into home health because I need a job pretty soon to save up money quickly. I'm pregnant and will be delivering in June so why would any facility hire someone for 2.5 months.

So how exactly can I prepare for a home health position?

Id also like advice on what and where I should apply due to my situation.

Thank you!!!

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I do peds home health it's cool def. Learn a lot it will spoil u lol I worked in a LTC facility for my first 6 months as a nurse the parents & family are ur biggest resources I honestly wouldn't suggest u do it straight out of school because u are def. On ur own & not having backup is scary

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Most Homehealths want you to have at least a year of hospital experience, but once in a while new nurses get lucky. If they dont hire you don't take it personal.

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Specializes in Cardiac, Home Health, Primary Care.

My home health actually hires only experienced RN's. I would be leery about going into home health without any experience. It's you out there with a SICK patient.

Just had an experience today of a patient with 90% oxygen (usually 98%) and coorifice lung sounds all over along with fever. I left the room to call the doc and the daughter started yelling for me saying he was unresponsive. Didn't flinch to a sternal rub and sats were in the 50's. What do you do?

These are sick patients and can go down just as fast as in a hospital. The kicker is you are the only nurse with limited resources.

Thankfully this guy had updrafts and oxygen and I got him back up to 84% when the ambulance got there. They lived out of town so I was alone for about 10 minutes with a crashing patient. 10 minutes is a long time in a bad situation.

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Specializes in Wound Care.

I'm a home health nurse and a fairly new grad (graduation was a year ago come October, License was in March). I have only worked home health and I LOVE IT!!!! My last 10 weeks of school I was able to do a wound care preceptorship and I am 100% sure that along with networking is what got me this job. I don't do shift work I do intermittent care and I love it. Look into it.

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Like you, I find Home Health nursing to be very rewarding. I make a direct impact on my patients lives through my daily visits. When I first started this I had a lot of difficulty writing skilled nurses notes and filling out the OASIS. I didn't get a lot of help, either.

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