Registered Nurse

About the role

Provide care in your local area! Limited on-call Flexible schedule Great benefits! Provide excellent in-home care and enjoy a flexible schedule that enables you to balance work and life. Work one-on-one with patients in their homes. Challenge and expand your nursing and case management skills and realize the satisfaction of impacting physical, emotional, and spiritual health needs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver one-on-one care for clients in the home setting, including routine nursing procedures (blood pressure, injections, and vital signs), observation, assessment, medication management, IV therapy, and wound care.
• Patients requiring home health nursing services can include patients who are chronically ill, disabled, or elderly, individuals recovering from an accident or injury, and the terminally ill.
• Home Health RNs provide education about diagnosis and the plan of care and listen and respond to patient requests and concerns.
• Monitor patient’s condition and assess their needs to provide the best possible care and advice.
• Observe and interpret patient’s symptoms and communicate them to physicians.
• Collaborate with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients.
• Perform routine procedures (blood pressure measurements, administering injections, etc.) and fill in patients’ charts.
• Adjust and administer patient’s medication and provide treatments according to physician’s orders.
• Inspect the facilities and act to maintain excellent hygiene and safety (decontaminating equipment, sanitizing surfaces, preparing beds, etc.).
• Provide on-call visits in emergencies.
• Foster a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families.

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills that allow getting to know your patients, build personal rapport, and establish trust while increasing the patients’ comfort.
• Initiative to make independent decisions when required and accept direction and requests from patients.
• Compassion for patients and their families.
• Outstanding organizational and multi‑tasking skills.
• Patient with excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Flexibility to work in a variety of living environments.
• Knowledge of clinical skills including changing bandages, giving tube feedings, administering shots, and setting up and monitoring IVs.
• Knowledge of health and safety guidelines and procedures (sanitation, decontamination, etc.) and willingness to follow them at all times.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a registered nurse.
• Driver’s license and reliable, insured vehicle.
• Valid Ohio nursing license.

Benefits

• Competitive pay rates