Registered Nurse Home Health

Intermountain Health • Denver, CO

4d • $37 - $56 • Remote

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a compassionate and skilled caregiver who plays a critical role in providing patient-centered care within the comfort of their homes. This position involves taking responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care that supports patients in maintaining their independence and improving their quality of life. The home health RN uses the nursing process, leveraging technology, therapeutic interventions, evidence-based practices, and seamless coordination with multidisciplinary team members to deliver meaningful care that aligns with the patient's unique needs and goals. 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 four 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 patient care.
• Utilizing the nursing process, technology, therapeutic interventions, and evidence-based practices.
• Coordinating with multidisciplinary team members.
• Providing patient-centered care within the comfort of their homes.
• Supporting patients in maintaining their independence and improving their quality of life.
• Wound care.
• Injection and medication administration.
• IV monitoring.
• Patient/caregiver education.

Benefits

• Shift Differentials available
• 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: Mid Level