What are we doing to provide some formal training for student nurses to prepare them for service in home health and hospice?
Licensing rules do not prohibit agencies from using student nurses as volunteers, administrative staff, or unlicensed direct-care employees as long as they meet any qualifications for those positions and the agency complies with all applicable federal and/or state rules regarding such volunteers or employees. DADS has a contract with the University of Texas in Austin that allows a nursing student to choose DADS as a rotation for observation, which could include a HCSSA survey. For certified home health agencies, visits made by a student nurse may be covered as skilled nursing care when an agency participates in training programs that use student nurses enrolled in a school of nursing to perform skilled nursing services in a home setting. To be covered, the services must be reasonable and necessary skilled nursing care and must be performed under the general supervision of a registered or licensed nurse. The supervising nurse need not accompany the student nurse on each visit. You can c
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