Weekends and Holidays?

Whether or not you work weekends or holidays in home health depends entirely upon the schedule you set up with you employer when you are hired and thereafter. If you are doing strictly patient care (shift work) rather than visits, you tell them when you are available, then they fit you where they need you on cases that have open shifts. Most people who work home health and do patient care are working around their regular jobs and schedules, so they will have a certain availability to give to the hh agency and that is that. Those who work full time for the hh agency in a different capacity will not have the same kind of flexibility. These people usually do visits or are nurse supervisors. Normally they will have a commitment that might include on call and/or weekends. Otherwise, you pick the days and shifts that you want to work. As long as the agency has open cases for those days and shifts, you are good to go. As far as holidays are concerned, like any other shift, you have the right to tell them that you are not going to work a certain holiday. Remember, that the person who presents the most availability, is going to get the most case work and will be called ahead of the person who is only available, here and there, and/or calls off often. They soon learn who not to rely on. HTH.