What is Home Health Nursing Like

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I was offered the opportunity to work in Home Health. I was reading an online hospital description of the position and they mentioned 8 - 10 hours of high stress. Before I consider the offer can anyone enlighten me? :)

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I was very happy when working in home health.

But, things maybe change over time? I don't know.

If you're not sure, then can you arrange to go out

with an experienced home health nurse for a few days,

in order for you to get a sense of what it's like.

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Specializes in Day Surgery, Agency, Cath Lab, LTC/Psych.

Well, everyone has their own description of "high stress." I am not aware of any nursing job--or any job for that matter--that doesn't include stress. However, I find that home health is actually less stressful than other fields of nursing. There are no call lights. You are with one patient at a time. You can devote all your focus on each patient individually and I really enjoy that. The stressful part, for me, is the voluminous paperwork and coordination with different services/doctors.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Check out the threads in our Home Health Nursing forum

especially:Typical day for a HH nurse...

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