Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health Care (Every Other Weekend)

Professional Home Care Services, Inc.; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 110,700 - 129,150; Part time

Job summary

A home healthcare provider in Milwaukee seeks a dependable Home Health RN for weekend visits. Responsibilities include skilled nursing tasks in patients' homes, organizational skills, and effective communication are essential. Candidates must possess a valid Wisconsin RN license and a positive attitude. Training available for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Positive, can-do attitude.
• Ability to keep your schedule and organize visits.
• 1-3 years of nursing experience in home care is a plus.
• Current TB skin test or willing to take one.
• Ability to pass a drug screen and physical.

Responsibilities

• Conduct skilled nursing visits in patients' homes.
• Complete electronic nursing visit notes post-visit.
• Manage medication, wound care, and patient education.

Skills

Dependability

Professionalism

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Valid, unrestricted RN license in Wisconsin

Tools

Electronic charting software

Job description

We are looking for a home health RN that would like to do home health visits during the day time on Saturdays and Sundays (every other weekend.) The position would require you to do Skilled Nursing visits in our clients' homes in the Metro Milwaukee area. The visits may require various different nursing tasks like Medication Management, Wound Care, Colostomy Care, Patient Education, etc. To sum it up, you will be traveling from client to client doing one nursing visit at each client's home. The visits typically take about 10-15 minutes. You will be required to complete an electronic nursing visit note right after completing the visit. Orientation and shadowing will be provided. Home health experience is a plus, but we would be willing to train the right person. Pay is per visit, we are estimating $600 to $700 per weekend depending on the number of visits. There is also an option to pick up additional visits during the weekdays.

POSITIONQUALIFICATIONS:

As a Home Care RN, you must be dependable, professional, and energetic with a positive and empathetic personality. You will also need to have strong organizational, assessment, and problem solving abilities. It is also important that you display excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to interact well with patients, families, physicians, and staff.

Specific qualifications for the Home Care RN position include:

• Positive, Can-Do Attitude! (this is very important)
• Highly organized (able to keep your schedule and organize your visit route, complete all required documentation in a timely manner, collaborate with other members of the care team both within and outside the organization.)
• Valid, current, and unrestricted RN license in the state of Wisconsin
• 1-3 years of nursing experience in home care is a plus, but not required
• Strong sense of initiative and urgency in addressing unexpected patient crises
• Demonstrated knowledge regarding exposure to body fluids and chemicals, as well as to some hazardous equipment
• Current TB skin test (within 90 days of hire) or willing to take a TB test
• Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screen and physical
• Ability to travel as required. Current valid driver’s license and automobile insurance.
• Possess excellent computer skills (must be capable of charting electronically and adapting to technological changes)
• Physical abilities to adequately perform described duties (no physical restrictions)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, hear, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The employee must occasionally reposition or help ambulate patients. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.