What kind of home health care nurses are there?

[michelle.json]

There is more of trend towards home care, including materintiy. There are probably home care agencies that wil service pregant women and women who recently had babies, but there are most likeley very few that are completely dedicated to this. There are probably slightly more that do pediatircs, but again most would cover mostly geriatrics. However, RNs would most likely not be doing most of the care. Some women would want home care aides to help with the baby and help with chores. Some RNs may be able to get job doing evauations and superivisng home care aides for an agency.

[Katie82, RN]

I think the kind of RN care you are describing is Case Management. Insurance companies and Health Departments hire Case Managers to oversee pregnancy and parenting of high risk patients. Home care aides are generally expensive and not covered by insurance. Some state agencies will cover this if there is a disability involved.

[augiebear]

I am a home health aide and I am a nurse aide. For our company, the nurse aides to most of the in-home care. We have a LPN who is the homecare coordinator and she does the evaluations and assesments as well as her own shifts with patients who need care that we are not certified to do..i.e. feeding tube, insulin injections, etc...we also have an RN who is a coordinator as well and another who is the DON...we and I am sure the same is true for most agencies, do mostly geriatric care..hope this helps some..