Fee for Service East End Registered Nurse

Gurwin Healthcare System; Commack (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Gurwin Healthcare System is seeking a Registered Nurse for our Licensed Home Care Agency (LHCSA) to visit patients in their homes and supervise certified Home Health Aides on the East End.

Requirements include a current New York State Nursing License; a BSN is preferred; prior home care experience is required. You must be comfortable with a laptop/tablet and travel to patient homes, making clinical and managerial decisions as needed.

Qualifications

• Current New York State Nursing License required.
• Baccalaureate degree in nursing preferred.
• Previous home care experience required.

Responsibilities

• Drive to visit patients in their homes and perform assessments.
• Supervise home health aides and implement care plans.
• Document visits and notify changes in patient condition.
• Provide other nursing services as needed.

Skills

Home visits

Nursing assessment

Documentation

Education

New York RN License

BSN preferred

Tools

Laptop & Tablet

Job description

$90 for Initial visits $65 for revisits and $50 for discharge visits

Gurwin Healthcare System is a full continuum of care providing extraordinary care and caring to the people that we serve. Set on a 36-acre campus in Commack, NY, the Gurwin Healthcare System includes the 460-bed Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, providing short-term rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing care, memory care, respiratory and ventilator care, palliative and hospice care, social and medical adult day programs, and on-site dialysis. Sharing the campus is Gurwin’s Assisted Living community (Gurwin Jewish : Fay J. Lindner Residences) and our independent living community (Fountaingate Gardens).

Per Diem (As needed)

Our innovative philosophy and growing services offer opportunities to advance your career. We are currently seeking Registered Nurse for our Licensed Home Care Agency (LHCSA) to visit our patients in their homes and supervise certified Home Health Aides on the East End.

Education And Experience Requirements

• A current New York State Nursing License.
• A Baccalaureate Degree in nursing is preferred.

Previous Home Care Experience Is Required

Comfortable with laptop/tablet and integrating them into a home visit.

PHYSICAL WORK REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to travel to patients' homes to make home visits.
• Ability to make clinical and managerial decisions within the scope of professional nursing practice and to perform clinical procedures completely and independently.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

• Driving to visit patients in their homes.
• Assessments and continuing care visits to patients who are admitted to the long-term care LHCDA program.
• Supervision of home health aides including instructions for implementing written plans of care.
• Notifying the agency staff of any change in the patient's condition.
• Documentation of visits.
• Other nursing services as needed.

We offer an excellent salary, dynamic work environment.

EOE M/F/D/V