Registered Nurse - Home Care

Munson Healthcare; Traverse City (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Full benefits

PTO

Wellness support

Job summary

Munson Healthcare in Traverse City, MI is seeking a registered nurse to manage patient caseload from admission to discharge, providing skilled nursing care across preventive, rehabilitative, and end-of-life needs. You will educate patients and coordinate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality outcomes.

Requires Michigan RN licensure and experience in acute, home, or hospice care where applicable.

Qualifications

• Licensed RN in the State of Michigan.
• Experience in acute care, home care, or hospice preferred.
• Proven health assessment, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to make independent judgments directing patient care.
• Able to meet Home Health and Medicare standards through criminal background check and fingerprinting.
• Possess current Michigan motor vehicle license, ability to drive to patient homes or other offices in various weather conditions.

Responsibilities

• Manages an assigned caseload from admission through discharge using a framework of assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.
• Completes comprehensive assessments (including OASIS when required), develops and updates individualized plans of care, and provides skilled nursing services across preventative, rehabilitative, palliative, and end-of-life needs.
• Educates and counsels patients and families on disease processes, symptom management, and self-care, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members.
• Supervises LPNs and paraprofessionals, communicates changes in patient condition to physicians and team members, and maintains documentation within the EMR.

Skills

Licensed RN

Acute care

Interpersonal skills

Independent judgement

Job description

More Than Just Care, It’s Community

$9,000 SIGN ON BONUS

More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures – you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

• Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.
• Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.
• Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.
• Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

Job Description

A Day in the Life

• Manages an assigned caseload from admission through discharge using a framework of assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.
• Responsibilities include completing comprehensive assessments (including OASIS when required), developing and updating individualized plans of care, and providing skilled nursing services across preventative, rehabilitative, palliative, and end-of-life needs.
• Educates and counsels patients and families on disease processes, symptom management, and self-care, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members such as Home Health Aides, Therapies, Social Work, Chaplaincy, and Bereavement Services.
• This position also supervises LPNs and paraprofessionals, communicates changes in patient condition to physicians and team members, secures necessary equipment and supplies, and maintains thorough, timely documentation within the electronic medical record.

Qualifications

What’s Required

• Licensed RN in the State of Michigan
• Experience in acute care, home care, or hospice preferred
• Proven health assessment, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to make independent judgments directing patient care.
• Able to meet Home Health and Medicare standards through criminal background check and fingerprinting.
• Possess current Michigan motor vehicle license, ability to drive a car and an insured vehicle capable of transport to patient homes or other offices in various weather conditions.

Additional Information

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.