A Day on the Road with a Visiting Nurse

About this episode

The episode explores the daily lives and experiences of home health and hospice nurses who provide care to patients in their homes.

Home health and hospice nurses provide all kinds of healthcare to people in their homes...day and night, and in mud and snow. I knew of these folks because I met some of them after my father came home from the hospital. A nurse came to help with his medications. A VNA therapist came to give him physical therapy. But I wasn’t really aware of these nurses and therapists UNTIL my family really needed them, and I expect there are a lot of people out there like me. So this is a show about the nurses who travel, and what their days are like, and what they know about this place because of the work they do.

People in this episode

Host: Erica Heilman

Topics covered

• home health care
• hospice nursing
• personal stories
• healthcare professionals
• traveling nurses

Keywords

• home health
• hospice
• nursing
• healthcare
• personal care
• therapists
• patient care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VNA

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