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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a home health nurse to the rescue! If you love nursing but prefer an at-home setting to the hospital, a home health nurse may be the perfect career for you.

Many people who have a regular home health nurse who comes into their home on a regular basis may look at them as the “Superwoman” of the nursing field, offering them quality, personal care within the confines of their own home.

Home Health Nursing is a fast growing profession that is perfect for the professional nurse who prefers to work independently, and who possess great personal, clinical and communication skills. Home health nurses should be able to recognize any complications with existing conditions, plus any oncoming conditions and be prepared to alert the patients’ doctor if treatment is needed.

For those nurses who find themselves loving a classroom environment and both the medical field, finding that they can do both by becoming a Public Health nurse is often the perfect solution to their dilema.

The goal of a Public Health nurse is to identify the needs of a particular community and help them prevent potential health issues from becoming issues in their particular community, and this is done generally through classes and lectures in both the workplace and in the targeted community.

The public health nurse is often the voice of various health officials such as health educators, physicians, and nutritionists just to name a few. She works closely with these and other health officials so she can stand in the front lines reaching out to schools, and the residents of each community to educate them on prevention of various diseases and disabilities within the community itself.

If the home health nurse is considered the superwoman of the home health setting, the public health nurse is definitely the superwoman and voice of health in the community, both of which offering different, yet invaluable roles to the communities in which they serve.

While home health nurses require no additional certifications aside from their normal nurse licensing procedures, the public health nurse are required to have a bachelors of science degree in nursing with a public health nursing certificate. Both are different but equally rewarding nursing careers.