New Grad and Home Health position

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I am a new grad and was offered a part time home health/palliative position. I am really excited because after weeks of applying and writing cover letters, I finally got a job offer. However, I am bit taken back and worried after reading all the pros and cons relating to new grad and home health. Any advices would be much needed and appreciated.

Also, the rate that being for me as a part time is:

43.50 per visit

28.13 office hourly

62 on call/weekend

0.40 for the gas reimbursement

Please comment and let me know if all these listed rates are average rate for HH RN in SoCal area.

Thank you so much and I hope to hear from you all :)

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Hi congrats! I know most would suggest you first have hospital/long term care experience before home health but I don't think it's necessary. Yes in home care you are on your own, but so far from my experience home care reminds me a lot of nursing school with regards to creating care plans and really using your assessment skills. You rely on your assessment of blood pressure the old fashioned way, really checking pulses and listening to heart and lung sounds. I feel like in the hospital we rely so much on machines for assessment that we as nurses somewhat lose our basic nursing skills.

i hope the company you may work for provides lots of education and support for you as a new nurse. I can comment on the rates as I live in DE

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The rates seem a tad on the low side, but typical, these days, for SoCal. Just be glad you're still not job hunting and learn all that you can.

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I'm an LVN, officially received my license on 01/06, and I too also finally got a job offer for a home health agency doing part time visits on the weekends after applying to several home health agencies. Most agencies in California require at least 1 year experience. I currently work for a home care agency in Los Angeles as a QA, but my employer doesn't seem too happy about giving me patients because of extra expenses with worker's comp, and overtime since I get 40hrs/week, unfortunately. So I decided to look elsewhere.

Our pay rates are broken down by types of visit. For RN, eval = 100.00, f/u visits = 50.00, IV visits = 60-70.00. LVN 30-35/visit.

I'm a LVN, and make 28.00/hr, but only because I'm doing RN work as well which is reviewed and co-signed by a RN (coding of recerts).

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