Registered Nurse RN Home Health

AdventHealth • DeLand, FL

103d

About The Position

The Home Health Registered Nurse (RN) Care Manager is a professional nurse who coordinates and directs the home care patients care based on individual patient needs. The RN Care Manager is responsible for independent management of the Home Health patient population requiring the use of advanced assessment, teaching and decision-making skills. The nurse is responsible for ensuring that appropriate referrals to other services are made, interdisciplinary conferencing takes place regularly, and appropriate documentation is completed. Relevant knowledge and experience is consistently applied to new patient populations. The Care Manager cares for a caseload of home health patients by evaluating the patient for appropriateness of home health and developing the home care plan in conjunction with the physician. S/he educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care. S/he provides follow up by evaluating effectiveness of the home care plan, and monitoring patient/familys response to the plan to achieve patient/family goals and top decile outcomes. The Care Manager also identifies performance improvement and home health standard of care initiatives and assists to design or implement programs to address needed changes.

Requirements

• Current Registered Nursing License in State of Practice
• Valid Driver's License and current car insurance
• BLS
• Minimum of 1 plus years relevant clinical RN experience

Nice To Haves

• Bachelors degree in nursing
• Recent, relevant experience in a Medicare-certified home health agency as a visit nurse
• Home Health Case Manager Certification COS-C

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and directs the care of a caseload of home patients when the primary skill needed is nursing.
• Provides comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation for that caseload as the primary nurse.
• Sets priorities of home care caseload adapting to the changing needs of the home care patients and families.
• Optimizes schedule daily to support productivity, efficiency and maintain best practice visit utilization.
• Utilizing assessment data, formulates a patient specific plan of care along with the patient, family and physician.
• Establishes individualized, realistic, measurable patient centered goals in consultation with the patient, family and other health care providers.
• Informs the physician, clinical manager, and other appropriate members of the health care team of changes in the patients condition and needs.
• Facilitates and coordinates interdisciplinary care conferences with groups of complex patients.
• Maintains an updated clinical record on each patient, meeting required deadlines for documentation.

Benefits

• Up to $5,000 Sign-On Bonus
• Benefits from Day One
• Paid Time Off from Day One
• Career Development
• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources
• Mental Health Resources and Support

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree