I’m doing disability exams if veterans on a 4-10 schedule…. I see up to six veterans a day.
HH is great. However, if your not organized then the pay might not be what your expecting. When I did HH I saw 6-10 patients a day. Try to spread out your certs/recerts and follow ups so your days flows. Charting takes about 30 min min per soc(start of care hence cert/recert). In my personal opinion don't take hourly wage find a company who pays per pt. If I remember correctly 85 for follow ups take like 10-30 mins depending on care. Recerts/certs 125-200. Remember, these patients need good education so they don't get readmitted or know when to return to hospital. Make sure you feel your experience is well rounded enough that you'll catch things. Also, schedule your patients by each other make it convenient for yourself. I always allowed drive time, care and charting in mind so pay makes sense. Good luck.
A typical day would be four to six patients. It depends on what skills need to be done. Remember that home health requires a patient to be home bound and have a skilled need that could involve dressing changes, IV infusion, teaching meds, providing pain relief measures, etc. Be sure and document clearly the skilled need you provided.
6 to 8 patients daily.
I take care of a homebound vet. He is a parapalegic and he takes care of most things for himself. I am there for just the talking and the other. He has the cutest little dog too. And I have past the dog test. Getting ticks off the dog from between it's toes. The dog let me.
Average productivity for Home Health nurse is 6 visits per day. Sometimes admissions are added and you have to adjust your schedule as admissions could take 1-1/2 hr.
3-4 pts I work in California
usually 5-6, adjusting visits with you have admissions.
Home health usually works on a point system. A follow-up visit for a patient is one point and an initial visit is usually two points. 6 points typically equals a 8 hour day. So if you did six follow up visits you would see six patients a day. If you were doing an initial visit you could see five patients (1 initial = 2 points and 4 follow-ups).
I worked home health many years ago. At that time, we saw from five to seven or eight patients in a day. We scheduled the patients to allow for minimal travel between patients.
I have a friend still working home health and she has told me that the documentation process is currently much more cumbersome.
Home health here is tipically 5 patients a day but its followed by a couple of hours of paper work or pc charting. You can tell them you want 2 to 7 patients a day.
I take care of 30 patients in a 8 hr shift!
Long term care- 30 to 50; rehab-20 to 30.
1 for case management one on one but also applying for a case management position which would be about 10-15 per week.
for Acute care position 5-6.
for outpatient 10
Icy on a slow day 16 on a busy day 22 to 24. But I’ve also been a nurse practitioner for a long time and prior to that I was an ER/ICU nurse.
20-25
It depends on scheduling;however, I would see 10 or so usually in a day. About 30 min visit each
I see 4-6 per day depending on the acuity and distance between patients.
