Question about HH job offer and Advice

[nursenatalie6287]

Hi there. I'm a fairly new nurse with a year of experience on a skilled unit in a LTC facility taking care of dementia and Alzheimer's pts. I have been offered a job for home health through a small agency. I was offered $28 per visit with .35 mileage reimbursement. I just have a couple questions for those of you that have been in hh for awhile. One, is this offer pretty typical for the industry and are there any questions I need to ask before accepting the offer? Two do you think I am making a mistake going into home health after only a year of experience? I cannot stand the facility I'm at currently and need to make a change and really feel I want to do home health. Hospital are not hiring where I am (Colorado) and the only other option is other LTC facilities which I wouldn't mind, if I could get to a better facility and not have 30 patients by myself. I like the idea of home health and don't mind traveling. Is there any advice you could offer?

[mommy1975]

Missouri $65 SOC, $45 RCT & DC, $40 visit, $65 ROC. Mileage reimbursement= 0.43/mile

[nolanurse504]

@Isabelle49

Are you still working home health in Louisiana?

[paradiseboundRN]

In Michigan, SOC $85, revisit $50, recert/d/c $65. This is the problem that I posted about. Where do these new grads get their experience to work in home health if the hospitals are not hiring?

[jennle83]

I'm in central Florida and do PRN for HH. We get $0.50 per mile, $80 for SOC, $60 ROC,DC and RECERT and $40 for regular visit. It seems so far the pay works out pretty well. My longest visit is the SOC and that really depends on the pt and why they are being admitted. I had one visit for a woman on TPN and IV Abx and the SOC wasn't the bad part it was waiting for the pharmacy to bring the meds and supplies because it took them an hour to get there AFTER I had finished the SOC paperwork.