Home Healthcare NP

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Specializes in APRN / Critical Care Neuro.

Are there any NP / FNPs or the like that work in home healthcare?  I am potentially looking at being hired (within the hospital system I currently work in) as a new grad FNP in home health.  Basically (5) 8 hour days a week seeing 8-10 patients a day.  My background is general medicine ICU in a very small community hospital so I see a lot of these patients during illness and exacerbation crisis.  I feel my team will support the transition and it will "feed" into the palliative / hospice care that I feel passionate about helping being navigate well before need and during need.  I am one of the crazies that loves complex care and advocating for those that are either difficult to advocate for or can't do it themselves.  

I sit for my boards in a few weeks and am currently doing review for that while working PRN.  I'll be prepared.  But, what I would also like to know are some thoughts and experiences from some others in this line of work.  Challenges to training, what I need to prepare myself for after boards...what additional training would be helpful.  My team would potentially help me with that, but I am an over achiever, aim to impress and want to do my homework on this! ?

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