Registered Nurse; RN - Home Health

Join Capital Health Care Network as a Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health and play a vital role in delivering high-quality care to patients in their homes.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to full‑time employees, including:

• PTO
• 401‑k with company match
• Health insurance
• Company‑paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program

The Registered Nurse plans, organizes, and directs home‑care services, focusing on community health education and patient/family-centered care. The professional nurse utilizes community resources to meet the needs of individuals and families in their homes and communities.

• Completes an initial assessment of patient and family to determine home‑care needs, including a full physical assessment and history.
• Regularly re‑evaluates patient nursing needs.
• Initiates plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status changes.
• Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a care plan with goals based on nursing diagnosis, incorporating therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative actions.
• Initiates preventive and rehabilitative procedures; administers medications and treatments as prescribed.
• Counsels patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.
• Provides health‑care instructions appropriate to assessment and plan.
• Identifies discharge‑planning needs and implements them before discharge.

• Prepares clinical notes daily and updates primary physician at least every sixty days.
• Communicates patient needs and changes in condition to physicians, obtaining orders as required.
• Coordinates care plan with community health personnel.

• Participates in on‑call duties.
• Ensures arrangements for equipment and other supplies are available.
• Instructs, supervises, and evaluates home‑health aide care every fourteen days.

• Registered nurse licensed through the State Board of Nursing.
• Current CPR certification and a valid driver’s license.
• At least one year of general nursing experience (home health, clinical, surgical or critical care).
• Self‑directed, works with little supervision; good organizational skills.
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication, problem‑solving, basic math, and nursing skills per competency checklist.
• Physical ability: prolonged walking/standing, lifting, positioning, transferring patients and supplies, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching; adequate visual acuity and hearing.
• Licensed driver with an insured automobile in good working order.
• Flexible and cooperative in fulfilling role obligations.