Registered Nurse - Home Care

A Day in the Life

• Manages an assigned caseload from admission through discharge using a framework of assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.
• Completes comprehensive assessments (including OASIS when required), develops and updates individualized plans of care, and provides skilled nursing services across preventative, rehabilitative, palliative, and end-of-life needs.
• Educates and counsels patients and families on disease processes, symptom management, and self-care, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members such as Home Health Aides, Therapies, Social Work, Chaplaincy, and Bereavement Services.
• Supervises LPNs and paraprofessionals, communicates changes in patient condition to physicians and team members, secures necessary equipment and supplies, and maintains thorough, timely documentation within the electronic medical record.

Qualifications

• Licensed RN in the State of Michigan
• Experience in acute care, home care, or hospice preferred
• Proven health assessment, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to make independent judgments directing patient care
• Able to meet Home Health and Medicare standards through criminal background check and fingerprinting
• Possess current Michigan motor vehicle license, ability to drive a car and an insured vehicle capable of transport to patient homes or other offices in various weather conditions