What are the responsibilities and job description for the Home Health RN position at CHP Home Care & Hospice?
- Great benefits!
- Provide care in your local area!
- Limited on-call due to dedicated call staff
- Flexible schedules to meet your needs!
Provide excellent in-home care and enjoy a flexible schedule that enables you to balance work and life. Work one-on-one with patients in their homes. Challenge and expand your nursing and case management skills and realize the satisfaction of impacting physical, emotional, and spiritual health needs.
Benefits
At CHP Home Care & Hospice, we provide an employee benefits package that includes competitive pay rates, paid mileage, uniform allowance, flexibility in schedules and positions, full medical, dental, vision, short and long-term insurance, 403(b) retirement, and paid time off.
Come be a part of this well-established, growing, home health and hospice organization
About Our Company
Come be a part of our forward-looking company with the potential for growth and opportunity. CHP is a local, nonprofit organization established to care for our communities. We are looking for energetic team members to provide exceptional care through compassion, care, and respect.
What You Will Do
Deliver one-on-one care for clients in the home setting, including routine nursing procedures (blood pressure, injections, and vital signs), observation, assessment, medication management, IV therapy, and wound care. Patients requiring home health nursing services can include patients who are chronically ill, disabled, or elderly, individuals recovering from an accident or injury, and the terminally ill. Home Health RNs provide education about diagnosis and the plan of care and listen and respond to patient requests and concerns.
Job Responsibilities
- Monitor patient’s condition and assess their needs to provide the best possible care and advice
- Observe and interpret patient’s symptoms and communicate them to physicians
- Collaborate with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients
- Perform routine procedures (blood pressure measurements, administering injections, etc.) and fill in patients’ charts
- Adjust and administer patient’s medication and provide treatments according to physician’s orders
- Inspect the facilities and act to maintain excellent hygiene and safety (decontaminating equipment, sanitizing surfaces, preparing beds, etc.)
- Provide on-call visits in emergencies
- Foster, a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families
Skills
A successful home health and hospice RN uses a variety of skills and clinical knowledge to provide the most comprehensive care.
- Strong interpersonal skills that allow getting to know your patients, build personal rapport, and establish trust while increasing the patients' comfort
- Initiative to make independent decisions when required and accept direction and requests from patients
- Compassion for patients and their families
- Outstanding organizational and multi-tasking skills
- Patient with excellent problem-solving skills
- Flexibility to work in a variety of living environments
- Knowledge of clinical skills including changing bandages, giving tube feedings, administering shots, and setting up and monitoring IVs
- Knowledge of health and safety guidelines and procedures (sanitation, decontamination, etc.) and willingness to follow them at all times
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a registered nurse
- Driver’s license and reliable, insured, vehicle
- Valid Ohio nursing license
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: From $31.42 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
- Home Health
- Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Physical Setting:
- Outpatient
Work Location: In person
Salary : $31
