Registered Nurse Home Health PRN

Intermountain Health • Denver, CO

21h • Remote

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) with Home Health is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of Home Health patients and their families in their home setting. The RN provides the best clinical practice in an environment of caring and healing while working autonomously in the home. Utilizing the nursing process, the RN delivers care in compliance with hospice/home health policies and procedures, legal and regulatory standards. The RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members. Home is where families gather, where special occasions are celebrated, and where memories are made. Most of all, home is where you feel comfortable, relax, reflect, and heal. Intermountain Home Health is privileged to be the caring hands in the home bringing quality, compassion, skill, and excellence. Home Health allows patients to be at home, where they want to be, through their health journey. This exciting work allows you to develop your clinical skills while experiencing this unique and highly rewarding care environment. Enhance your career by learning unique skills such as wound care, injection and medication administration, IV monitoring, and patient/caregiver education.

Requirements

• Current RN License in the state of practice
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers
• Valid driver’s license with reliable transportation, acceptable driving record, and current auto insurance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN)
• Effective Communication Skills – Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with patients, families, and healthcare teams
• RNs with less than 12 months of experience as an RN must complete their BSN within five years of their start date.
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, and driving a vehicle.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.
• Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling portable equipment, including heavy items.
• Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of furniture, equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).
• Need to ascend and descend stairs or uneven surface in order to access patients.
• Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Nice To Haves

• One year of RN experience in Acute Care, Home Health, or Hospice settings

Responsibilities

• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of Home Health patients and their families in their home setting.
• Providing the best clinical practice in an environment of caring and healing while working autonomously in the home.
• Delivering care in compliance with hospice/home health policies and procedures, legal and regulatory standards.
• Utilizing the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members.
• Developing clinical skills such as wound care, injection and medication administration, IV monitoring, and patient/caregiver education.

Benefits

• Flexible shifts, allowing you to balance work with your personal life.
• Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
• Up-front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution through the PEAK program.
• 100+ learning options to choose from, including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, and professional skills and certificates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level