Home Health Nurse (RN or LPN)
On-siteEspañola, New Mexico, United States or Abiquiu, New Mexico, United States
Job Summary
Home Health Nurse (RN or LPN) for Giving Home Health Care performing in-home patient care under physician plans of care. 1099 contract opportunity with care delivered at patients’ residences across Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Responsibilities include executing physician prescribed plans of care, documenting care in the system, administering prescribed medications and therapies, conducting patient assessments and care coordination, assisting with activities of daily living, monitoring vitals and intake/output, wound care, communicating with family members, physicians, case managers, and other prescribers, and providing education to patients and families. Collaborates with CNAs and HHAs; supervises care assistants; requires travel to patients’ homes and building lasting patient relationships. Qualifications include nursing licensure (RN or LPN), CPR, required screenings, background considerations, and dependable transportation; must be comfortable working in a home-health, in-home setting with potential 12-hour or 6-hour shifts. The role emphasizes compassionate, patient-first care in a mission-driven, collaborative environment with equal opportunity employment and compliance with pay transparency laws.
Required Qualifications
- Education, licensing, and certification: graduate of an accredited college or university, Associate or Baccalaureate School of Nursing
- Current State or Compact License as a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse.
- Current CPR certification
- TB test and physical examination.
- Maintain required insurance.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity.
- Ability to stand or walk for prolonged periods, with the ability to lift up to 50 lbs and move patients.
- Ability to operate under stressful conditions and make quick decisions.
- Must have dependable transportation and be willing to commute to the patient’s home.
- Ability to provide basic medical management up to medically fragile end of life care.
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