Community Health Nurse (Fee For Service)

Metropolitan Jewish Health System

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 137,760 - 344,400

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A nonprofit health organization is seeking compassionate individuals for a home care nursing role in New York. You will be responsible for creating and managing patient-centered care plans, overseeing recovery from illness, injury, or surgery at home. Essential qualifications include a current RN license and experience in acute medical-surgical nursing. If you possess strong communication and decision-making skills, this role is for you! This position may require driving based on patient needs.

Qualifications

Current NYS RN license and registration required.
Minimum of one year acute medical-surgical nursing experience required.
Driver license and car will be required based on regional needs.

Responsibilities

Create and update comprehensive patient-centered home health plans.
Case-manage the care and services for assigned patients.
Support agency-established financial goals.
Demonstrate expert knowledge in community health nursing.

Skills

Compassion

Clinical Insight

Decision-making

Communication

Documentation

Time-management

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Associate's degree in nursing

Job description

Fee for Service Rates:

Initial & ROC Weekday visit rate: $100

Initial & ROC Weekend/Holiday visit rate: $120

Revisit daily rate: $85

Orientation daily rate: $250

In‑Service hourly rate: $55

Weekday and weekend shifts available.

MJHS is a large not‑for‑profit health system in the Greater New York area. Our range of health services includes home care, hospice and palliative care for adults and children, rehabilitation and nursing care at Menorah and Isabella Centers, and the research‑based MJHS Institute for Innovation and Palliative Care. We also offer Elderplan/HomeFirst: health plans for Medicare and dual‑eligible individuals. As a not‑for‑profit organization, many of our programs and services are made possible through the generosity of grateful families, corporate donors and grants, as well as our own employees.

MJHS Home Care provides advanced clinical services and emotional support to patients recovering from illness, injury, or surgery. With a comprehensive range of services supported by an integrated health system, patients can recover in the familiar surroundings of their home.

Someone with your depth of compassion, clinical insight and strong decision‑making capabilities is the ideal person to map out and oversee the process of a patient's recovery from illness, injury or surgery at home. You will provide a full range of advanced clinical home‑care services, including patient assessment, medication management and patient/family education.

In this role, you will assume the ongoing, primary responsibility to coordinate, implement and continually evaluate the home‑care needs of your patients. You will also review patient insurance information, coordinate activities involved in each individual care plan and make sure that pertinent findings are shared with family and professional caregivers. Your excellent communication, documentation and time‑management capabilities will be essential to your success. And all along the way, you will experience the respect for your opinions and the high level of autonomy you need to do the job right.

To create the initial comprehensive and interdisciplinary patient‑centered home health plan of care; update the home health plan of care in collaboration with the physician
To effectively case‑manage the care and services for assigned patients resulting in positive clinical outcomes and minimized risks of rehospitalization
Supports agency‑established financial goals
Demonstrate expert knowledge unique to the practice of community health nursing