RN - Home Health

Registered Nurse

Provides high quality professional health care to patients of all ages in their home environment. Plans, implements and evaluates nursing care for patients and families.

Essential Functions

• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patients for Home Health.
• Performs comprehensive initial and ongoing assessments to patients/families.
• Use assessment skills to determine patients physical and mental status and status of environmental and social support.
• Develops and modifies a plan of care for the patient and family based on a thorough assessment of problems, potential problems and the medical plan of treatment.
• Plan nursing interventions that are consistent with the standard nursing practice.
• Coordinates home health and interdepartmental services, medical care, community resources and resources within the home in developing the plan of care.
• Implements services and completes medical records in accordance with the care plan in compliance with the Home Health requirements, policies, procedures and protocols.
• Teaches and demonstrates care to the patient or family.
• Provides supervision to ancillary health care workers.
• Prepares, administers and documents medications and treatments as prescribed.

Experience/Education Requirements

• Graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
• One year of experience.
• Positive attitude, good mental and physical health.

Licenses/Certifications

• Current state of Illinois RN license.
• CPR Certification.

Benefits

• 401K
• Paid Time Off

Iroquois Memorial Hospital is a 25 bed hospital located in Watseka, Illinois. The hospital facility is comprised of clinical and diagnostic services which are dedicated to providing high quality health care services to the community. These services include but are not limited to an Emergency Room, full service OR suites, an inpatient care unit, therapy services, advanced medical imaging, Home Health, and Hospice Care. The hospital operates rural health clinics in Watseka, IL, Gilman, IL, Milford, IL, Saint Anne, IL and Kentland, IN. The hospital also operates a skilled nursing facility, Iroquois Resident Home, which is attached to the hospital property.

Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home