Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health

Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) with company match
• Health insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

About the Role

Join a trusted, family-owned home health agency proudly servicing the community for over 40 years with locations throughout Ohio. Provide one-on-one care to patients in the comfort of their homes, allowing you to build deeper relationships and make a real difference. Enjoy independence and autonomy, utilizing your clinical judgment and critical thinking while managing patient care in the field. Benefit from flexible scheduling designed to support work-life balance, and work alongside a collaborative interdisciplinary team that values compassion, communication, and quality patient care.

Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Completes an initial assessment of patient and family to determine home care needs, including a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es).
• Regularly re-evaluates patient nursing needs.
• Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.
• Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a care plan, which establishes goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
• Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician.
• Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.
• Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan.
• Identifies discharge planning needs as part of the care plan development and implements prior to discharge of the patient.

Communication

• Prepares clinical notes daily and updates the primary physician when necessary and at least every sixty days.
• Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physician’s orders as required.
• Communicates with community health-related persons to coordinate the care plan.

Additional Duties

• Participates in on-call duties.
• Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.
• Instructs, supervises, and evaluates home health aide care provided every fourteen days.

Requirements

• Currently licensed as an RN through the State Board of Nursing.
• Possesses and maintains current CPR certification and valid driver’s license.
• Prefer at least one year of general nursing experience, home health, clinical, surgical, or critical care experience.
• Self-directed with the ability to work with little supervision; good organizational skills.
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, basic math skills; nursing skills per competency checklist.
• Prolonged or considerable walking or standing. Able to lift, position, or transfer patients. Able to lift supplies and equipment.
• Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, or crouching.
• Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills.
• Must be a licensed driver with an automobile that is insured in accordance with state and/or Agency requirements and is in good working order.
• Flexible and cooperative in fulfilling role obligations.