Is it possible to begin home health (very) part time?

[geekgolightly, BSN, RN]

I work weekends and take care of my son during the week while my husband is studying for a huge exam in August. Ideally I would like to work one day extra a week, and I would love for that to be home health. Would a home health agency take on a nurse with three years hospital experience only (no HH) to work that little? If not, is two days a week for six months or so, and then one day a week feasible? Any ideas ladies (and gents!)?

edit to add: I am fully willing to train full time until I know the routine.

[valifay]

My day job is through a home health agency and we have nurses who just work a couple days a week and even some that are PRN. I would just call a couple agencies and see what they offer. Good luck!

[SWRN84]

The home care agency I work for hired a prn nurse....no home care experience, but ER and med surg experience. She oriented full time for a couple of weeks, then went down to working one 1-2 days per week. She seemed to do fine with it. I had always been of the mindset that it would be difficult to learn home care doing it prn if you've never done it before. I still think that it's more difficult that way.....only because of the regulations, OASIS paperwork, but I have seen that it can be done.

[geekgolightly, BSN, RN]

The home care agency I work for hired a prn nurse....no home care experience, but ER and med surg experience. She oriented full time for a couple of weeks, then went down to working one 1-2 days per week. She seemed to do fine with it. I had always been of the mindset that it would be difficult to learn home care doing it prn if you've never done it before. I still think that it's more difficult that way.....only because of the regulations, OASIS paperwork, but I have seen that it can be done.

I do think learning the regulations is going to be difficult. I also really want to work home health part time. There really is no other work I am interested in as my second job. I love working hospital two days a week. If I work it three days a week, I begin to want to tear my hair out, so that is out of the question. Having HH thrown into the mix sounds ideal for me.

I really appreciate the responses and am glad that at least one other agency has tried this and it worked successfully.

[dnursehoutx]

I work perdiem for two agencies and I love it I let them know the days I am available and then I see patients I worked in the hospital for 13 years but now I want to be there for my kids home health has made that possible I love it.

[HappyJaxRN]

I work weekends and take care of my son during the week while my husband is studying for a huge exam in August. Ideally I would like to work one day extra a week, and I would love for that to be home health. Would a home health agency take on a nurse with three years hospital experience only (no HH) to work that little? If not, is two days a week for six months or so, and then one day a week feasible? Any ideas ladies (and gents!)?

edit to add: I am fully willing to train full time until I know the routine.

I've been an RN for 2 years and have only 2 years worth of critical care nursing. I started working in home care nursing 2 months ago. I love it too. Most agencies will work with you and you can set your own hours. Most will do this, not all. I hope you learn quick. I got 2 hours of training and then thrown in. It was frustrating at first because I didn't have the resources I have at my hospital...to ask if I needed to run something by someone...one thing I did in the very beginning is take note in the things I didn't understand and when I got home, I Googled the information and began reading up on things about my patient. Good luck.