Home Health Registered Nurse; RN

Overview

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Aveanna Healthcare’s Certified Business Line offers short-term and long-term home health services to individuals under Medicare and Medicaid, Private Insurance, and Private Pay. We serve a diverse patient population with varying needs, including chronic conditions, behavioral health challenges, monitoring requirements, skilled nursing, and therapeutic needs. Patients range from children to geriatric individuals and receive care at home through skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and home health aide services.

The services are tailored to each patient’s needs and can improve quality of life for those who wish to remain in their own homes.

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing and documenting skilled nursing care in accordance with the developed care plan and physicians’ orders, while maintaining confidentiality and professional boundaries at all times.

• Develop a plan of care through physician orders, client input, and nursing assessment to include medical interventions and measurable goals and outcomes.
• Educate clients and their family members based on the client’s specific needs.
• Properly orient and train primary caregivers to ensure optimal functioning for each client.
• Coordinate the continuum of hands-on client care through documentation and timely communication with the client’s physician and other caregivers.
• Provide care in the patient’s home using skills such as phone triage, patient education, observation/assessment, wound care, infusions, catheter care, and PICC line dressing changes.

• Attention to detail
• Time management
• Effective problem-solving and conflict resolution
• Good organization and communication skills

• Speak, read, write, and understand English
• Ability to travel
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds
• Prolonged walking, standing, bending, kneeling, reaching, twisting; ability to climb stairs
• Visual and hearing acuity; strong sense of smell and touch
• Ability to reposition patients and move equipment without assistance
• Ability to respond appropriately to emergency situations in the home or during transport

• Function in varied environments with potential exposure to allergens and other conditions
• Possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and infectious diseases

• An active RN license in the state of application
• Current CPR certification (with hands-on component)
• TB skin test current within last 12 months
• Must have reliable transportation
• Must be able to read and write English

• Medicare skilled nursing experience
• Basic understanding of Oasis
• 1-year RN experience in a healthcare setting

Aveanna Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. Employees must comply with health-related requirements, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to medical or religious exemptions as appropriate.