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[danlee]

How do u make money doing this?

Bayshore said jobs are 2-12 hours

I assume 2 in morning 2 at night for a total of 12 hours.and I would think care.feeds and taking clients to appointments takes longer than 2 hours

How do u make money working so few hours?

Thx

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

Private duty is shift work in the US with shifts anywhere from 4-16 hours per shift paid at an hourly rate. Skilled nursing home health is intermittent visits lasting 15-30 minutes to a couple of hours. Pay is hourly or per visit type (start of care, skilled care, reassessment, discharge, etc) depending on the nurse's arrangements with the home health agency. Most private duty home health is pediatric and young adults with medically complex & fragile conditions and is usually long term. Skilled home health has a admitting condition and a planned discharge date once the condition is resolved (wound care, post op care, patient/family education, deconditioning post admission, post partum, etc)

I believe you are in Canada, perhaps posting in the Canadian forum will offer more accurate insight. I will admit I have no idea how home health works in Canada as the healthcare system is not like the US.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I work 40 hrs/week so that's how I make money doing it.

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

Oh and I alternate three 14 hour shifts and two fourteen hr + one 12 hr shift every 2 weeks. This gives me full time with benefits.

[caliotter3]

I never made money doing intermittent visits, as a matter of fact, I lost money. There are many people that make money doing visits though. You are either efficient, or you can pattern yourself after those who play loosely with the work ethic. Nobody really believes that one nurse physically makes 16 visits in one day, day in and day out. If you do extended care, you make money when you work for an agency that allows, and pays, overtime (it also helps if they have a good payscale to begin with). Ninety-six hour workweeks, including overtime that is paid, can cover a lot of living expenses. Problem with that is your employer(s) have to keep you in work and you have to keep yourself healthy. There comes a breakdown point sometimes.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I never made money doing intermittent visits, as a matter of fact, I lost money. There are many people that make money doing visits though. You are either efficient, or you can pattern yourself after those who play loosely with the work ethic. Nobody really believes that one nurse physically makes 16 visits in one day, day in and day out. If you do extended care, you make money when you work for an agency that allows, and pays, overtime (it also helps if they have a good payscale to begin with). Ninety-six hour workweeks, including overtime that is paid, can cover a lot of living expenses. Problem with that is your employer(s) have to keep you in work and you have to keep yourself healthy. There comes a breakdown point sometimes.

If you work full-time and aren't paid per visit, it's very easy to earn a living doing visits. I do it and many of my former hospital colleagues do it as well. I am paid better now than I ever was working in the hospital. I don't see how 16 visits in a day is ever possible. I did 7 each of the last 2 days and I'm dead.