Home health work from nurses home?

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Years ago I worked for a home health agency in Texas that allowed the nurse to work from the nurses home instead of patients home- Is this still allowed in Texas? Is it legal?

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how could you do home health visita from your home?

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

I admit to being a bit confused here. Do you mean providing  Home Health nurse duties for patients in your own home? So the patients needing Home Health travel to your home for care? If so I'm shocked that is a thing that was ever or would ever be allowed. Essentially you would be sort of turning your own home into a clinic for patient care.  

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Specializes in VA-BC, CRNI.
Been there,done that said:

how could you do home health visita from your home?

I never did it from my home but maybe 20% of my patients would want to meet somewhere more convenient than their home or cleaner or whatever. I have performed services in offices, schools, and even parking lots. I could see performing services in my own home if I wanted patients to meet me in my home. 

For some of my services I would have a decent amount of follow-up paperwork that could be performed from anywhere. Typically I did this on the side of the road but would do it at home on occasion. This is course was not your typical home infusion case.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice.

Wow, I've never heard of this. As an ACT nurse, I gave injections in the car, and even in a fast food bathroom. But never in my home. That was psych though.

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