Regional Registered Nurse - Northwest AR

Regional Registered Nurse - Northwest AR at Northwest Home Health summary:
The Regional Registered Nurse provides comprehensive nursing care to home health patients across multiple locations in Northwest Arkansas. This role involves assessing patient needs, developing care plans, coordinating with healthcare professionals, and ensuring compliance with medical and regulatory guidelines. The position offers flexibility, career growth opportunities, and emphasizes building trusted relationships with patients and their families.
We are hiring for a Regional Registered Nurse.
This field home health nurse would rotate/float between our agencies in Springdale, Fort Smith, and Harrison in the Northwest AR area.
Home Health experience required.
At Northwest Home Health - Springdale, a part of LHC Group, we embrace a culture of caring, belonging, and trust and enjoy the meaningful connections that come from it: for the whole patient, their families, each other, and the communities we serve—it truly is all about helping people. You can find a home for your career here.
As a Regional Registered Nurse, you can expect:

• flexibility for true work-life balance

• opportunities for career growth

• the ability to build trusted nurse-patient relationships

• employee-focused wellness and support programs
If you love nursing and want to strengthen your experience, this is a great opportunity for you.
The Regional Registered Nurse (RN) in Home Health provides and directs provisions of nursing care to patients in their homes as prescribed by the physician and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and agency policies.

• Coordinates total plan of care with other health care professionals involved in care and helps to achieve and maintain continuity of patient care by planning and exchanging information with physician, agency personnel, patient, family, and community resources. All done within a Point of Care setting.

• Makes the initial and/or comprehensive nursing evaluation visit, determines primary focus of care, develops the plan of care within state specific guidelines, and submits accurate, complete, and timely documentation in collaboration with physician orders.

• Performs patient comprehensive assessments at designated time points and develops the appropriate plan of care.

• Ensures patients meet home health eligibility and medical necessity guidelines as defined by payer source.
License Requirements

• Current RN licensure in state of practice

• Current CPR certification

• Current Drivers License, vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle or public transportation.
Keywords:
home health nurse, patient care, care coordination, nursing assessment, care plan development, RN licensure, CPR certification, patient evaluation, clinical documentation, healthcare compliance