>> The person who oversees patient care in a home care agency must be a registered nurse.
That doesn't mean that other people can't own home health agencies and hospice agencies.
They can. Anyone can own them as long as they get through the requirements,
but the requirement is that a nurse oversees the patient care
and the nursing practice piece of it.
A good nurse is just someone who wants to take care of people, who's nurturing,
who doesn't just want to see them when they're well, is able to watch them age and become frail
and support them through illness, sometimes through death, support the families, you know,
look at the patient and their family as a unit and as a social organism, so to speak,
and that really is what a nurse needs to have.
They need to have a good strong scientific background and not be afraid,
you know, to delve into the sciences.
You can't get through nursing anymore
without having a good solid nursing, I mean science background.