What kind of home health care nurses are there?

[lovescourt]

what im NOT looking for:

hospice
geriatrics

what I am looking for:

maternity, birthing, etc,
pediatrics
ect.

any ideas? what schooling would it entail and what exactly do the people do?

[boomer gal]

There's not a lot of call in home care for maternity/birthing, as most new mom's would not be in need of that sort of nursing care. However, in a large metropolitan area, you could probably find a home health agency that had a specialty in pediatrics. You would be working with babies & kids who had significant medical problems. You would need to obtain a bachelor of science in nursing degree & would be well advised to get a year or two of med/surg &/or pediatric hospital nursing experience before going into home care.

[science chick]

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.

Some people do want to have home births, and you may be able to do that as a midwife. You would go to nursing school for 4 years to get your BSN, then get your masters.

Getting a job pediatrics/ OB/GYN is VERY competitive. A labor and delivery nurse told my helath occupations class that to get into labor and delvivery, you pretty much have to wait for someone to die or retire. When a position does open up, there is a LOT of competition for it. If you don't want to work at a hospital, you are cutting out most of your employment opprotunites.

When you go just about any health care training, you will need to deal with old people at some point in time. There are many more elderly people than pregant women, no naturally the programs tend to cover more geriatrics than obstetrics. Because these fields are competitive, there is a good chance that you will have to work outside of your desired specialty. There are many types of settings to work in and different specialties to explore, and limiting yourself to maternity and pediatrics outside of a hospital will severly limit your opprountities. Once you get to nursing school, you will be exposed to a variety of different fields. Keep an open mind.