What kind of hours do you get for this job?

caliotter3 · Feb 17, 2015

The answer to both questions is "yes", depending upon the type of position offered by the hiring agency. Some home health agencies will hire a new grad, but most will not. If you do extended care, you can adjust your hours in agreement with a client and the agency. If you do intermittent visits, usually you set up your own appointment times, although there are some agency offices that micromanage visits. This is not common. It all depends on what you discuss with the employer when they hire you.

Libby1987 · Feb 18, 2015

I somewhat get to pick my hours doing intermittent visits but I wouldn't expect that to be possible until you are fully functioning independently and you work for an agency that allows flex time, some are 8-5 with mandatory on call and weekends.

Mom2boysRN · Feb 19, 2015

I wouldn't recommend HH to a new grad though there are agencies that will hire new grads. I get paid per visit, so yes to some extent I choose my hours. I can take as many or as few patient's as I want and I schedule them based on times/days that work for both of us. I am required to do on call which is evenings and weekends that is done on a rotation with the other nurses.

117800 · Feb 19, 2015

I started out as a new grad in HH - Maternal/Child Health home visits. I loved the job and was pretty much able to make my own hours.

pedlvn · Feb 20, 2015

I work in shift work, pediatric private duty home care, started as a new grad. The patients are wonderful, but the parents of the patients are what you have to worry about, they are all different. Yes, you can pick your hours and days, and if they have a case that the fits the schedule you want, they, the agency, will have you meet the patient and the family to see if you like it. But after more than two years of working various cases with various families, I am planning on getting a job in a nursing home. Having a parent micro-manage me is just too much. The parent of my patient has me leave my shoes at the front porch, does not let me eat in the patient's bedroom, I have to eat in kitchen, with a place mat under my meal, and then wipe the place mat with a Lysol wipe. And then she asks too many personal questions. When my patient has a BM and it smells the room like poop I then open both of his windows and she then comes in and closes the window by his head, even if it is a hot day. Then she freaks out if I open a new water bottle, because there is already an open one, I didn't know that. There are other things she freaks out about but too much to type. Be prepared to deal with family members that are nuttier than a fruitcake.

I also had one patient, age 13, that her stepfather would piss in the bathroom with the door open.