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How many patients do you typically see in a day?


November 15th, 2021

I’m doing disability exams if veterans on a 4-10 schedule…. I see up to six veterans a day.

July 7th, 2022

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.

May 24th, 2022

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.

July 15th, 2023

usually 5-6, adjusting visits with you have admissions.

May 29th, 2023

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).

January 5th, 2023

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.

September 14th, 2022

6 to 8 patients daily.

August 31st, 2022

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.

June 18th, 2022

I take care of 30 patients in a 8 hr shift!

May 13th, 2022

Long term care- 30 to 50; rehab-20 to 30.

March 30th, 2022

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

January 6th, 2022

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.

January 5th, 2022

20-25

January 4th, 2022

It depends on scheduling;however, I would see 10 or so usually in a day. About 30 min visit each

January 4th, 2022

I see 4-6 per day depending on the acuity and distance between patients.