Registered Nurse - RN

About the role

As the Registered Nurse in Home Health you will provide and direct provisions of nursing care to patients in their homes as prescribed by the physician and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and agency policies. You will also coordinate total plan of care with other health care professionals involved in care and helps to achieve and maintain continuity of patient care by planning and exchanging information with physician, agency personnel, patient, family, and community resources.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Competence
  • Initiates, develops, implements, and revises the plan of care in collaboration with the physician and other health care professionals
  • Supervises care provided by home health aides and licensed practical/vocational nurses, provides instruction, and assigns tasks according to State and federal regulations
  • Provides required supervisory visits
• Documentation and Care Delivery
  • Provides high-quality clinical services within the scope of practice and infection control standards, in accordance with the plan of care, and in coordination with other health care team members
  • Completes comprehensive assessments (OASIS) including medication reconciliation accurately and timely
  • Documents patient visits per policy and payer requirements, and syncs timely per LHC policy
• Quality
  • Makes initial and/or comprehensive nursing evaluation visits, ensures patients meet home health eligibility and medical necessity guidelines, determines primary focus of care, develops the plan of care within State guidelines with the physician, and submits accurate documentation
  • Communicates relevant information timely and effectively with appropriate agency staff, including patient care issues, visit assignments, schedule changes, orders, OASIS data sets, coding requests, and coordination with other clinicians
  • Communicates timely and effectively with physicians, patients, and family members to ensure quality care and service excellence
• Teamwork
  • Takes direction from Clinical Director and Executive Director professionally and completes assigned tasks timely, including required learning
  • Assists in the orientation of new agency personnel and serves as a preceptor to other staff and students
  • Actively participates in survey/survey readiness activities and performance improvement plans, works to reduce unnecessary patient hospitalizations, improve patient safety, and implements processes and best practices to ensure positive patient outcomes
  • Participates in on-call and weekend rotation as needed to meet patient needs
  • Adheres to and participates in the agency's utilization management model
  • Ability to function in any home situation regardless of age, race, creed, color, sex, disability, or financial condition of the client

Required Qualifications

• Current and unrestricted RN licensure in state of practice
• Current Driver's License, vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle or public transportation
• Louisiana specific: 1+ years of clinical experience as a Registered Nurse (may be waived for a Registered Nurse with recent clinical experience as an LPN); RN licensure must have no restrictions

Preferred Qualifications

• Current CPR Certification or ability to complete within 90 days of hire
• 1+ years of Home Health experience
• Ability to work independently
• Solid communication, writing, and organizational skills

Pay

• Annual total cash target pay: $67,905 - $101,857
• Visit point rate: $32.65 - $48.97
• Hourly rate: $39.18 - $58.76
• Annual total cash compensation assumes full-time employment (40 weekly hours) at full productivity and generally follows the range above; total cash compensation includes earnings from per visit point pay and hourly pay and is based on several factors including local labor markets, education, work experience and may increase over time based on productivity and performance
• This role receives two types of compensation: when conducting visits, paid per visit point rate (calculated by multiplying per visit point rate by productivity points accrued for various types of visits; each visit type assigned a certain number of productivity points inclusive of "direct" and "indirect" patient care activities); visits assigned based on patient and business needs; number of visits per week varies based on individual productivity targets and productivity points assigned; hourly rate paid for certain non-visit activities such as orientation
• Complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits subject to eligibility requirements)