Home Health Nurse Specialist - Homecare​/Field Staff

Overview

Get to know Home Care!

Children’s Mercy Home Care is the only full-service pediatric home-health agency in the region. We utilize the services of highly trained registered nurses and therapists who assist patients and families with their medical needs as they transition to their home environment. We provide comprehensive medical care, such as infusion therapy and wound care, for children with complex medical needs. Other team members include nurse Liaisons, physical, occupational, speech and neonatal pediatric respiratory therapists, as well as experts in pharmacy, medical social work and durable medical equipment and supplies.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, we actively coordinate the patient’s individualized plan of care.

We provide short-term medical care, education, encouragement, and support to help our patients and families attain the highest level of health and independence. The Children’s Mercy Home Care Team teaches the child’s parents or legal guardians how to independently provide the care ordered. Our goal is to prevent hospital readmissions and ensure the best possible outcomes.

Our Home Health Nurse Specialists provide comprehensive medical care and perform a wide range of skilled nursing services including acute and rehabilitative care, assessment of high-risk newborns, assessment and teaching of various systems, diabetes and asthma teaching, wound care, infusion therapies and central line care, wellness and/or disease-focused education, and other specialized treatments. We see patients from birth to 18 years of age for a broad range of conditions including pre- and post- transplant care, multi-congenital abnormalities, cancer care, wound care, failure to thrive and feeding difficulties, and preterm newborns to name a few.

Our skilled nursing visits typically last around one hour and our nurses see several patients a day. Our Home Health Nurse Specialists see patients in the comfort of their own home, at school or daycare, or a relative’s house.

Our Home Health Nurse Specialists have a lot of autonomy and manage their own caseload. They enjoy the flexibility of seeing patients outside of the walls of the hospital or clinic, and in the comfort of their own home. Home Health Nurse Specialist care for patients with a wide variety of acuities and diagnoses, so no day is ever the same.

They coordinate care and communicate with the patient’s entire care team. They assist patients and families to thrive and succeed  ability to stand alongside them during that journey is a side of nursing that many never get to experience, and our Home Health Nurse Specialist describe it as one of the most rewarding parts of their job!

At Children’s Mercy, we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcomed within our walls. A successful candidate for this position will join us as we strive to create a workplace that reflects the community we serve, as well as our core values of kindness, curiosity, inclusion, team and integrity.

• Develops and implements a comprehensive plan of care for the patient/family which promotes independence and optimal patient outcomes.
• Promotes therapeutic, safe, efficient, cost-effective and family centered care.
• Meets the educational needs of patient/family, utilizing principles of teaching/learning.
• Promotes CMHC through service excellence.
• Participates in performance improvement activities.
• Attends education programs, CMHC meetings and assigned committees and promotes learning within CMHC staff, new staff orientation and visiting students.

• Associate s Degree
• Current employees hired before September 1, 2013 are grandfathered and permitted to continue in the direct care nursing role.
• Direct care nurses hired after September 1, 2013 without a BSN, must complete their degree within 5 years of their hire date
• Bachelor s Degree
• Preferred for all direct care nurses hired after September 1, 2013.
• One of the following:
  Licensed RN - Kansas, Registered Nurse Multistate License Kansas required upon hire
• One of the following:
  Licensed RN - MO, Registered Nurse Multistate License Missouri required upon hire
• RN Compact license for all states besides KS…