RN Home Health (Pay Per Visit) - UNC Home Health Chapel Hill

Description

Considering a Career in Home Health Nursing? Join our team and experience the rewarding opportunity to deliver one-on-one, holistic care in the comfort of your patients' homes. As a Home Health RN with UNC Health, you’ll provide high-quality, compassionate care that truly makes a difference.

We Offer

• Flexible scheduling for patient visits
• UNC issued phone with safety features
• Mileage reimbursed at the current IRS rate

We're Looking For

• RNs with 2–3 years of Med/Surg (preferred); Skilled Home Health (preferred); Will consider ICU or ED experience
• Bring strong foundational skills, such as wound care, infusions, lines and catheter care
• Are skilled at delivering personalized care based on each patient’s unique needs and environment
• Are confident working independently and managing their own schedules
• Have personal vehicle and current/active auto insurance
• Able to travel to patient homes within assigned region

What You'll Do

• Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards
• Reports and is accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a home health setting

Education & Training

• Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs
• Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population
• Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers
• Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn
• Evaluation of care
• Identifies expected patient outcomes
• Sets up goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations
• Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities
• Effectively uses communication systems
• Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice
• Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems
• Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care
• Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care
• Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs
• Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs
• Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care
• Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care
• Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning
• Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems

Other Information

Education Requirements: Graduation from a state-accredited school of professional nursing

Licensure/Certification Requirements: Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina

Professional Experience Requirements: One (1) year of nursing experience caring for acute and chronically ill patients or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements: Job Details Legal Employer: STATE Entity: UNC Medical Center Organization Unit: Orange Home Health Skilled Nur Work Type: Per Visit Standard Hours Per Week: 0.10 Salary Range: $28.87 - $41.50 per hour (Hiring Range) Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity Work Assignment Type: Onsite Work Schedule: Day Job Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation. UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.