RN - Home Healthcare - PRN

Presbyterian Healthcare Services • Pueblo, CO

2d • $44 - $59 • Remote

About The Position

Provide compassionate, skilled nursing care in the comfort of patients’ homes. Support recovery and independence through personalized health plans and education. Make a meaningful impact by delivering quality care where it matters most.

Requirements

• Associates degree in Nursing required.
• New Mexico RN License required.
• BLS Required at time of Hire
• Must have current valid driver's license and auto insurance.
• Minimum 1 year in direct patient care setting or home healthcare preferred

Nice To Haves

• Direct Home Health Experience HIGHLY PREFERRED

Responsibilities

• The Home Health RN Case Manager provides comprehensive nursing care and case management for patients in their homes and community settings.
• Ensures that care delivery meets quality and utilization standards while achieving optimal clinical outcomes.
• Developing, coordinating, and scheduling individualized care plans through a multidisciplinary team.
• Maintaining timely and accurate documentation.
• Serving as a patient advocate.
• Communicating effectively with healthcare providers, support services, and community resources to deliver efficient, cost-effective care.
• Mentoring newly hired nurses.
• Ensuring compliance, continuity of care, and patient satisfaction.
• Ensures the quality and safe delivery of home health services.
• Completes assessments that are timely, and appropriate of physical, mental, psychological/social (behavioral), functional, financial, treatment, resource, and spiritual needs of patients.
• Provides skilled nursing care services by planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, evaluating, and documenting all aspects of nursing care in accordance with physician/APC plan of care.
• Coordinates patients care through collaboration with patient/care giver, multidisciplinary team, and physician/APC.
• Intervenes consistently and changes interventions with orders to meet changes with patient/caregiver needs.
• Evaluates each visit the effectiveness of interventions and the patients response to intervention.
• Provide direct patient care by assessing patient for care needs, resources to meet needs and developing a home care plan of care in conjunction with physician.
• Assures completion of required OASIS assessments according to regulations for home care and QAPI measures.
• Ensures plan of care is followed and that documentation complies with regulatory requirements.
• Maintains a department productivity standard for visits and caseload management.
• Demonstrates professional accountability for self-scheduling patient case load with appropriate frequency and duration, and concurrently updates schedule throughout the day as needed so that ongoing patient needs can be met.
• Assure patients on case load are notified timely of their visits, any unplanned schedule changes, and accommodate patients preferred schedule as available.
• Precepts newly hired nurses, students and serves as a resource person and professional role model as needed.
• Maintain communication with the multidisciplinary team s and assures that orders for necessary care plan changes are obtained and communicated timely to the team.
• Initiates documentation in the home and completely records all care delivery so that receiving staff have record of care delivered in a timely manner per agency policy and procedures.
• Oversight and delegation of the plan of care within the care team as appropriate to LPNs and CNAs.
• Assumes professional responsibility for current nursing practice and clinical standards of care.
• Participates in agency continuous quality improvement and process improvement project (PIP) activities as required.
• Assume other leadership roles as required by the department.
• Responsible for holiday coverage, select weekend coverage and evening call for agency and patient home visits as required on a rotating basis.
• Performs other functions as required.

Benefits

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• EPIC electronic charting system
• free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree