Home Health: RN Overnight (after-hours, 11pm-8am)

Job Description

Job Description

The After Hours RN is primarily responsible to plan, organize and direct home care services and is experienced in nursing, with emphasis on community health education/experience. The professional nurse builds from the resources of the community to plan and direct services to meet the needs of individuals and families within their homes and communities.

Position: Overnight ( After Hours) RN for Home Health

Compensation: Stipend + Pay-Per-Visit (PPV)

• After-hours shift stipend: $150 per shift worked
• Pay period: 7 days per pay period which includes every other weekend
• Visit coverage: $75 per visit
• Additional hourly pay: $42–$45/hour (depending on experience) for non-visit activities such as orientation, meetings, in-services, and training/education

Location: Twin Cities Greater Metro.  This position requires that you drive covering the entire metro area, northwest: St. Michaels, southwest: Chaska, southeast: Hastings, northeast: Forest Lake and in-between. Plus mileage reimbursement of 72.5 cents per mile

Shift Schedule: 11pm-8am, 7 shifts per pay period, which will include every other weekend and are required to work 2 holidays per year

Schedule:

Week 1: Sunday OFF/Monday 11p-8a/Tuesday 11p-8a/Wednesday OFF/Thursday OFF/Friday 11p-8a/Saturday 11p-8a

Week 2: Sunday 11p-8a/Monday OFF/Tuesday OFF/Wednesday 11p-8a/Thursday 11p-8a/Friday OFF/Saturday OFF  

Lifespark Benefits Include:    

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} 
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company! 

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:  

• Completes assessments of patient and family to determine skilled home care needs
• Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis
• Assess the problem based on conversation with client/patient, family or caregiver
• Uses clinical judgment, knowledge and experience to direct conversation and guide decision-making to give self-care advice, refer client/patient to physician, instruct client/patient contact emergency assistance, or dispatch appropriate community resource
• Provides direct/triage client/patient care as defined in the State Nurse Practice Act
• Counsels the client/patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs
• Provides health care instructions to the client/patient as appropriate per assessment and plan of care
• Provides education when appropriate
• Reassures the rapid and effective transmission of client/patient data between all relevant parties
• Promotes evidence-based practice
• Establishes and maintains strong collaborative arrangements with other health care professionals
• Completes skilled visits to prevent rehospitalizations
• Completes annual mandatory training
• Completes evaluation visits and routine visits
• Lead by example in establishing rapport with client/patient
• Ensure positive/professional communication within the care team
• Customer service resolution; escalate concerns
• Completes clinical documentation same day and updates primary physician when necessary
• Communicates with physician regarding the client/patient needs and reports any changes in the client/patient condition; obtains/receives physician’s orders as required
• Communicates with community health related persons to coordinate the care plan
• Extremely skilled at listening and interpreting subtle indications such as tone of voice, hesitations or incomplete responses
• Inspires others and encourage them to seek advice and solutions to problems
• Honors Client Confidentiality, Rights, Privacy, and Reporting Maltreatment Expectations
• Understands and Accepts Clients’ Diagnosis
• Understands and accepts emotional needs of client
• Accepts unique client symptoms and behaviors
• Understanding of Confidentiality & Data Protection Act
• Adheres to Emergency Procedure and Response Expectations
• Identifies home safety issues and notifies appropriate community resource
• Demonstrates proper procedures: handling, lifting, transfers
• Escalates employee work injury per protocol
• Overview of Process, Types of Reports and Forms
• Follow-up Required – Escalating Event
• Other duties as assigned
  • Manage safety concerns for clients and clinicians, escalating when appropriate

Qualifications:

• One to two years of recent acute care experience in an institutional setting
• One year of home health care experience preferred
• Recent triage experience in clinic, ALF, SNF, or Home Health 
• Experience in customer service/direct member contact field preferred
• Experience supervising caregivers
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Current Minnesota Nursing License
• Must pass a MVR check based on Lifespark company policy

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. 

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