Home Health Registered Nurse; RN): Shifts, PEG Tube, Trach Wound Care

We are seeking a Licensed Registered Nurse for home health care.
Patient is bedbound and requires skilled nursing care, including wound care (sacral area), PEG tube feeding, and tracheostomy management.

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.

• Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.

• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.

• Document the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.

• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.

• Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions.

• Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including establishing priorities.

• Other Registered Nurse (RN) duties as assigned.

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) License for the state in which the nurse practices.

• Current Health Certificate (per facility Registered Nurse (RN) contract or state regulation).

• Current PPD or Chest X-Ray.

• Current BLS card.

• One year prior Registered Nurse (RN) experience preferred.

• Competitive salary

• Flexible work hours where you create your own schedule

You can expect a 1 patient: 1 nurse ratio, tailored scheduling, and an ideal drive time when you work with The Lakes Home Care . Most importantly, you can expect a rewarding, memorable career when working in a home environment and caring for medically-fragile patients in your community.