PRN Home Health Registered Nurse - Paris TX

Optum; Paris (TX); On-site; USD 72,000 - 108,000; Part time

Job summary

Elite Home Health in Paris, Texas, is seeking a PRN Registered Nurse to join our dedicated home health team. You will coordinate total patient care with physicians and the health care team, ensuring treatment plans align with state and federal regulations.

The role requires active RN licensure, CPR certification, and a valid driver’s license with reliable transportation. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential to deliver high-quality care in diverse home settings.

Qualifications

• Current RN licensure in state of practice.
• Current Driver's License and access to reliable transportation.
• Current CPR Certification.
• Ability to function in diverse home settings regardless of client background.

Responsibilities

• Incorporates physician orders to develop and revise the plan of care.
• Supervises home health aides and licensed nurses per state/federal guidelines.
• Performs supervisory visits and ensures compliance with policies and regulations.
• Completes and documents assessments (OASIS) and reconciles medications.
• Maintains accurate patient visits documentation and coordinates with care team.

Skills

Communication

Independence

Organization

Documentation

Education

RN licensure

Job description

Elite Home Health is hiring for a PRN RN to join our passionate team in Paris, Texas!

Explore opportunities with Elite Home Health, a part of LHC Group, a leading post-acute care partner for hospitals, physicians and families nationwide. As members of the Optum family of businesses, we are dedicated to helping people feel their best, including our team members who create meaningful connections with patients, their families, each other and the communities we serve. Find a home for your career here. Join us and embrace a culture of Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Clinical Competence
  • 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
• Documentation and Care Delivery
  • 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
  • Completes comprehensive assessments (OASIS) including medication reconciliation accurately and timely
  • Documents patient visits per policy and payer requirements, and syncs timely per LHC policy
  • Quality
    • 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
  • Teamwork
    • 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

Required 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
• Current CPR Certification
• Ability to function in any home situation regardless of age, race, creed, color, sex, disability, or financial condition of the client

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work independently
• Solid communication, writing, and organizational skills
• Pay Range
  • Target Pay - $71,677 - $107,516
  • Hourly Pay Range - $34.46 - $51.69
  • Per Visit Point Pay Range - $41.35 - $62.03

As the Registered Nurse in Home Health you will provide and direct provisions of nursing care to patients in their homes as prescribed by the physician and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and agency policies. You will also coordinate total plan of care with other health care professionals involved in care and helps to achieve and maintain continuity of patient care by planning and exchanging information with physician, agency personnel, patient, family, and community resources.