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Sanford Health is seeking a field-based Home Health Registered Nurse to deliver direct patient care in patients’ homes across the community. You will manage a personal caseload, perform skilled nursing visits, and coordinate care with an interdisciplinary team, supported by leadership and travel reimbursement.
The role emphasizes autonomy, patient education, documentation, and quality outcomes within a mission-driven health system that serves the upper Midwest.
Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.
Work Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Compensation: Salary Range: $34.00 - $51.00 $10,000 Sign on Bonus!! Union Position: No Department Details
Why You’ll Love This Role! This is a field-based home health nursing role providing direct patient care in patients’ homes. Manage your own patient caseload while completing skilled nursing visits, assessments, patient education, care coordination, and documentation in the home setting. Work independently in the field while receiving strong support from experienced clinical leadership, including Clinical Manager oversight and LPN care support. Collaborate closely with LPNs and an interdisciplinary team to ensure high-quality patient outcomes and coordinated care throughout the episode. Join a 4.5-Star Medicare-rated home health agency known for quality and compassionate care. Build meaningful, long-term relationships with patients through consistent caseloads and continuity of care. Enjoy flexibility and autonomy in structuring your day while serving patients throughout the community. Experience a balance of hands‑on patient care, clinical decision-making, and care coordination in a highly rewarding environment. Fully equipped with company‑provided technology and federal mileage reimbursement for travel between patient visits. Be part of a mission‑driven, supportive culture that values service, family, community, and compassionate care close to home.
Summary Integrates health care for clients from pre‑admission to post discharge. This is accomplished through the coordination and sequencing of the client’s care. Integration enhances patient/resident flow and interdisciplinary communication promotes early intervention. Job Description Seeks to evaluate outcomes based on an integration among established clinical, financial and utilization data. Functions in structured and unstructured health care settings described as a geographic and/or situational environment that may not have established policies and procedures. Utilizes independent nursing judgment when integrating health care. Has knowledge of and utilizes appropriate age‑specific structured care methodologies, such as protocols/integrated clinical pathways/guidelines/standards of care relating to the overall health care needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and/or geriatric patients/residents. Able to work with growth and development needs of client populations in clinical area. May work with clients in all age groups. Ability to communicate with patients/residents, family members and others on the health care team. Coordinates, facilitates, and negotiates with others. Monitors, evaluates and trends patient/resident responses utilizing structured care methodologies. Fiscally responsible. Controls variances and duplication. Must demonstrate independence, assertiveness and critical thinking when working with patients/residents and co‑workers. Ability to document clearly. Ability to solve problems. Self motivated. Works with little direction. Ability to incorporate teaching/learning principles and adapt teaching to age group. Ability to facilitate groups and implement projects when necessary. Must be able to establish priorities, have strong flexibility and organizational skills. Must be knowledgeable about reimbursement for services provided. Will be required to work primarily day hours, scheduled weekends, and occasional evenings. May be exposed to communicable or infectious disease, hazardous materials and injury from performance of assigned duties. Is subject to multiple sensory and environmental stressors.
The Sanford organization owns and manages multiple distinct brands, including Sanford Health, Marshfield Clinic, and Good Samaritan, as well as Lewis Drug, Sanford Health Equip, Solutions by Sanford, Great Shots, and Blue Rock Bar & Grill. Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world‑class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization has 53,000 employees and serves over 2 million patients and nearly 425,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 56 hospitals, 288 clinic locations, 147 senior care communities, 4,000 physicians and advanced practice providers and nearly 1,500 active clinical trials and studies. The organization’s transformational virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to 78 specialties. Learn more about Sanford Health’s commitment to shaping the future of rural health care across the lifespan at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News. Good Samaritan, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit providers of senior care and services, is committed to transforming the aging experience through innovation, compassion and personalized care. As part of Sanford Health, an integrated nonprofit health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Good Samaritan serves 10,000 seniors and offers access to a full continuum of care, including 94 rehabilitation and skilled nursing centers, 56 assisted living and memory care facilities, 44 independent living locations and 37 home health and hospice agencies. The senior care provider delivers services across the upper Midwest, with 70% of residents living in rural communities. Learn more about Good Samaritan’s mission and commitment to delivering high quality senior care in rural America at good‑sam.com.