LPN - Home Care & Clinic Float

Job Details

Level: Entry |

Job Location:

Bluestem PACE - Hutchinson, KS 67502 | Position Type:
Full Time | Education Level: Nurse License | Travel Percentage:
Occasional to Daily Local Driving | Job Shift: Day | Job Category:
Health Care | Bluestem PACE is looking for a full‑time Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join our expanding team as a Clinic/Homecare Float!

Join our team and enjoy outstanding benefits! At Bluestem Communities, we value our full‑time team members and offer a benefits package designed to support both your personal and professional well‑being.

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (medical & childcare available)
• AFLAC products
• Voluntary life insurance

• 401(k) plan with company match
• Gradifi student loan payment program
• Payactiv:
  Early access to earned wages

• Group term life and AD&D insurance
• Short‑term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and six (6) paid holidays
• Bluestem Wellness Center membership
• Meal discounts at our dining locations

Our benefits are designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally. Explore the full range of benefits and learn more about how Bluestem Communities can be the right fit for you—visit our Careers page today!

The primary function of the Clinic/Homecare RN is to assess, coordinate, monitor, and provide health care services and treatment for Bluestem PACE participants. This role encompasses rendering skilled nursing and palliative care services, planning and monitoring in‑home services, and assisting in the supervision of home care aides, while also coordinating quality improvement development, support, data collection, and analysis.

• Provide direct patient care in home and at clinic based upon policy and procedures standards of care and regulatory bodies.
• Conduct initial comprehensive assessments, unscheduled nursing assessments and participates in IDT.
• Responsible for the skilled nursing care, palliative care, and home care needs of the group of participants assigned.
• Facilitates the integration of new participants into the Bluestem PACE health care delivery system including medication, immunizations, and routine monitoring of chronic problems through the health record and nursing care plan development.
• Provides ongoing nursing assessments on a scheduled basis and submits PACE data requirements for caseload participants.
• Provides liaison with primary care provider in the event of an episodic illness; assists in coordinating services provided by primary care provider.
• Assists participants in maintaining optimum health; provides health education and counseling to participants and caregivers facing chronic conditions and end of life issues.
• Reports changes in the participants’ conditions to a physician or responsible party promptly and takes follow‑up action as necessary.
• Prepares and administers medications, enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition and treatment as ordered.
• Responsible for the completion of care plans utilizing the nursing process of assessment, establishing goals, planning interventions, and evaluations for the assigned participants.
• Responsible for a documented encounter at least monthly on assigned participants.
• Responsible for the completion of the supervisory visits on the participants assigned and notifying Clinical Service Director if care issues arise.
• Assures nursing services are documented in a timely, legible and accurate manner.
• Assure that home care charts are up to date.
• Document care in the participant’s medical record consistent with documentation policies and workflows.
• Follows established standards of nursing practices and implement program policies and procedures.
• Follows, supervises and evaluates the implementation of the Participant’s Bill of Rights.
• Assumes responsibility for compliance with federal, state and local regulations.
• Actively participates in Case Management.
• Provides updates to team regarding participants’ change in health or functional status.
• Participates in monthly quality assurance.
• Responsible for participant safety,…