Registered Nurse Home Health

Job Description

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.

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 is where families gather, where special occasions are celebrated, and where memories are made. Most of all, home is where you feel comfortable, relax, reflect, and heal. Intermountain Home Health is privileged to be the caring hands in the home bringing quality, compassion, skill, and excellence. 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.

• Autonomous Practice:
  Enjoy the independence of managing patient care while receiving support from a collaborative healthcare team.
• Meaningful Work:
  Deliver compassionate care to patients in their own homes, where comfort and healing can take place.
• Work-Life Balance:
  Flexible shifts, allowing you to balance work with your personal life. Monday through Friday 8AM-5PM.

• 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
• Experience:
  
  RNs with less than 12 months of experience as an RN must complete their BSN within five years of their start date.
• Note:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN)
• One year of RN experience in Acute Care, Home Health, or Hospice settings

• 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…