LPN (Fee For Service)

MJHS; Hasbrouck Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 48,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

MJHS Home Care is seeking an experienced Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to provide advanced clinical home care services to patients recovering at home. You will perform revisits, assess health status, administer medications, educate patients and families, and document visits in electronic records.

Under RN supervision, you will coordinate care plans, monitor progress, and ensure timely reconciliation of medications.

Qualifications

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) with NY license.
• Minimum 1 year Med/Surg experience in hospital or long-term care.
• Must have NY State Driver's License and own car.
• Good computer skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform revisits to home-based patients under RN direction.
• Assess patients, manage medications, provide education.
• Document visits electronically within 24–48 hours.
• Observe and report changes in health status, medications reconciliation.

Skills

Nursing

LPN

Home care

Medication administration

Education

LPN license (NY)

Job description

Fee for Service rates:

Daily weekday revisit rate: $48 per visit

Daily Weekend/Holiday revisit rate: $55 per visit

MJHS is a large not-for-profit health system in the Greater New York area. Our range of health services include home care, hospice and palliative care for adults and children, rehabilitation and nursing care at Menorah, 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.

Under the direction of a Coordinator of Care RN, the Licensed Practical Nurse will perform revisits to patients in theirhomebased on a skilled need. You will implement the plan of care and evaluate the patient's treatment. You will document the visit electronically within 24-48 hours.

• Under the direction of an RN, accurately observes, measures, records and reports clinical datarelated to a patient’s health status
• Accurately collect, communicate and document any sign(s) or symptom(s) outside of establishedparameters indicating a decline in an individual patient’s health status
• Under the direction of an RN, accurately reconciles and administers prescribed medicationsaccording to the physician prescribed plan of care
• Under the direction of an RN, accurately performs all nursing treatments (eg. Urinary catherization,sterile dressing change, tracheal suctioning) indicated in the physician prescribed plan of care

, nursing, LPN, homecare, home care licensed practical nurse

• NY StateLPNLicense required
• Minimum of one year Med/surg experience in a hospital or Longterm Care facility required.
• Must have a NY State Drivers License and a car.
• Good computer skills required.