Job Description:
The Registered Nurse (RN) with Homecare is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of Hospice/Home Health adult and pediatric patients and their families intheir home setting. The RN provides the best clinical practice in an environment of caring and healing while working autonomously in the home. Utilizing the nursing process, the RN delivers care in compliance with hospice/home health policies and procedures, legal and regulatory standards. The RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members.
What does it mean to be a part of our Homecare & Hospice team?
Home is where families gather, where special occasions are celebrated, and where memories are made. Most of all, home is where you feel comfortable, relax, reflect, and heal. Intermountain Homecare & Hospice is privileged to be the caring hands of Intermountain Healthcare in the home bringing quality, compassion, skill, and excellence. Homecare allows patients to be at home, where they want to be, through their health journey. This exciting work allows you to develop your clinical skills while experiencing this unique and highly rewarding care environment.
Enhance your career by learning unique skills such as wound care, injection and medication administration, IV monitoring, and patient/caregiver education.
As a Homecare Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive, patient-centered care to individuals in their homes, assisting with their medical needs, and helping manage chronic conditions. This role allows you to use your clinical knowledge to perform a variety of tasks including wound care, IV therapy, patient education, and more. The RN will be required to educate patients and caregivers on treatment plans, medication administration, and health management strategies.
Why Work With Us:
- Autonomous Practice: Enjoy the independence of managing patient care while receiving support from a collaborative healthcare team.
- Skill Development: Gain specialized experience in areas such as wound care, medication management, and IV therapy, all in a homecare setting.
- Meaningful Work: Deliver compassionate care to patients in their own homes, where comfort and healing can take place.
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible shifts Monday through Friday business hours, allowing you to balance work with your personal life.
Compensation and Benefits:
Competitive Pay Rate based on experience
Incentives: Up to $337 annual caregiver incentive and a $1,500 referral bonus
Opportunities for Professional Development through training and certification programs
- Various insurance options through Select Health, Intermountain Health's insurance company
- Onsite fitness centers and discounts to local gyms
- Be Well caregiver incentive program – up to $400 per year and $200 for spouse/partner
- Over 302,000 discount offers across 10,000 cities on everything from movie tickets, pizza and the zoo to car rentals and hotels
- Paid Time Off including but not limited to Parental Leave, Long and Short-Term Disability
- 401(k) with up to 6% employer contribution
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If you're ready to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients, apply now to join the Intermountain Homecare & Hospice team! Minimum Qualifications
- Current RN License in state of practice. License is verified
- Current BLS Certification for healthcare providers.
- Current drivers license, insured and reliable transportation and an acceptable driving record.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- Ability to transfer patients independently
- Ability to commute to the office at least twice daily to electronically transfer patient files or have other access to the Internet for electronically transferring patient files twice a day.
- RNs with less than 12 months of working experience as an RN prior to joining Intermountain must obtain their BSN within five years of their start date.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
- Two years working as an RN.
- Previous experience in an Acute Care, Home Health, or Hospice setting.
Physical Requirements:
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, and driving a vehicle.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of furniture, equipment, power cords on the floor, etc). Need to ascend and descend stairs or uneven surface in order to access patients.
- Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.
Location:
Homecare - St George
Work City:
St George
Work State:
Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$34.19 - $50.73
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
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