Mobile Home Health RN - Flexible Per Diem

ALC Health Care Services; Glen Ellyn (IL); On-site; USD 99,000 - 158,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Schedule

Mileage Reimbursement - $0.60 per mile

Job summary

ALC Health Care Services is seeking experienced home health care RNs to provide patient-centered nursing care across facilities and in patients’ homes. Per diem schedule with on-the-road visits and coordinated care planning.

Responsibilities include re-evaluating patient needs, initiating and revising care plans, administering medications, and counseling patients and families. Must have active RN IL license, CPR, a valid driver’s license, and the ability to lift and move patients as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of home health care experience.
• Current RN IL license and CPR certification.
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, basic math skills; nursing skills per competency checklist.
• Must be a licensed driver with an automobile that is insured in accordance with state/or organization requirements and is in good working order.
• Prolonged or considerable walking or standing. Able to lift, position or transfer patients. Able to lift supplies and equipment. Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling or crouching. Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills.

Responsibilities

• Regularly re-evaluates patient nursing needs.
• Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.
• Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a care plan, which establishes goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
• Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician.
• Counsels the patient and family with meeting nursing and related needs.
• Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan of care.
• Identifies discharge planning needs as part of the care plan development and implements prior to discharge of the patient.
• Prepares clinical notes and updates the primary physician when necessary.
• Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports any changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physician’s orders as required.
• Communicates with community health-related persons to coordinate the care plan.
• Participates in on-call duties as defined by the on-call policy.
• Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.

Job description

ALC Health Care Services is seeking experienced home health care RNs to provide patient-centered nursing care across facilities and in patients’ homes. Per diem schedule with on-the-road visits and coordinated care planning.

Responsibilities include re-evaluating patient needs, initiating and revising care plans, administering medications, and counseling patients and families. Must have active RN IL license, CPR, a valid driver’s license, and the ability to lift and move patients as needed.