Home Care offers a wide variety of career opportunities for the health care professional to utilize his or her skills. For individuals who like working one-on-one with patients and their family members, a career as a Home Care Nurse, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist, Nutritionist, or Medical Social Worker may well be a perfect fit. In the patients' home environment, the health care professional is able to support the kinds of changes that will foster permanent improvement in healthy lifestyles. Care is tailored to the individual patient, and the professional functions autonomously to utilize their skills at the highest level.

Positions in the fast-paced hospital environment are also available for experienced home care nurses, as Home Care Intake Coordinators. In this position, the nurse helps plan the patients' discharge from the hospital, and assists the patient and family to make the transition back home. The Home Care Intake Coordinator explains the services available to the patient, and works with the physician, the case manager, as well as with the agency to develop a plan of care for the patient after discharge.

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