Home Health RN: Independent Care with Impact

Optum; Florida; On-site; USD 72,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Mederi Caretenders, a part of LHC Group, is hiring an RN to provide and direct nursing care to patients in their homes, coordinating with physicians and other health care professionals. The role emphasizes plan of care development, documentation, and maintaining continuity of patient care.

You will supervise home health aides and licensed nurses, perform supervisory visits, and ensure compliance with state and federal regulations while delivering high-quality service and infection control

Qualifications

• Current and unrestricted RN licensure in state of practice.
• Current Driver's License, vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle or public transportation.

Responsibilities

• Initiates, develops, implements, and revises the plan of care in collaboration with the physician and other health care professionals.
• Supervises care provided by home health aides and licensed practical/vocational nurses, provides instruction, and assigns tasks according to State and federal regulations.
• Provides required supervisory visits.
• Provides high-quality clinical services within the scope of practice and infection control standards, in accordance with the plan of care, and in coordination with other health care team members.
• Completely assesses (OASIS) including medication reconciliation accurately and timely.
• Documents patient visits per policy and payer requirements, and syncs timely per LHC policy.
• Makes initial and/or comprehensive nursing evaluation visits, ensures patients meet home health eligibility and medical necessity guidelines, determines primary focus of care, develops the plan of care within State guidelines with the physician, and submits accurate documentation.
• Communicates relevant information timely and effectively with appropriate agency staff, including patient care issues, visit assignments, schedule changes, orders, OASIS data sets, coding requests, and coordination with other clinicians.
• Communicates timely and effectively with physicians, patients, and family members to ensure quality care and service excellence.
• Takes direction from Clinical Director and Executive Director professionally and completes assigned tasks timely, including required learning.
• Assists in the orientation of new agency personnel and serves as a preceptor to other staff and students.
• Actively participates in survey/survey readiness activities and performance improvement plans, works to reduce unnecessary patient hospitalizations, improve patient safety, and implements processes and best practices to ensure positive patient outcomes.
• Participates in on-call and weekend rotation as needed to meet patient needs.
• Adheres to and participates in the agency's utilization management model.

Skills

RN licensure

Driver's license

Home health experience

CPR certification

Job description

Mederi Caretenders, a part of LHC Group, is hiring an RN to provide and direct nursing care to patients in their homes, coordinating with physicians and other health care professionals. The role emphasizes plan of care development, documentation, and maintaining continuity of patient care.

You will supervise home health aides and licensed nurses, perform supervisory visits, and ensure compliance with state and federal regulations while delivering high-quality service and infection control