Registered Nurse at UPMC - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Registered Nurse, Home Health Harrisburg

Are you a nurse looking for a rewarding career where you can provide direct, one-on-one patient care? UPMC Home Healthcare is hiring caring, skilled, and compassionate registered nurses to join our home health nursing team! You’ll work in a home setting with a diverse patient population throughout these surrounding communities. Working outside of a medical facility, you’ll have an opportunity to get to know patients as you guide their care in the comfort of their homes.

Monday - Friday daylight shifts with rotations for on-call and weekends. As an RN with UPMC Home Healthcare, you’ll collaborate with our team of specialized nurses, rehabilitation therapists, social workers, dieticians, aides, and trained administrative staff to provide personalized patient care in a home setting.

Why choose UPMC Home Healthcare

• Establish rapport with patients and their families as you guide their treatment plan in-home.
• Sign-on bonus available for new graduates and experienced staff
• Grow your career with a career ladder designed for your professional advancement.
• Make your career work for you with flexible shift options, including a dedicated weekend program with premium rates and benefits.
• Work 8-hour or 10-hour shifts for full-time
• Care for your total well-being with UPMC’s robust benefits package – physically, financially, and emotionally – including tuition reimbursement and discounted RN-to-BSN programs.
• Receive mileage reimbursement (at the federal rate).

Final title and pay will be determined by education, experience, and certifications.

Responsibilities:

• Your role as the nurse will establish patients’ plans of care in collaboration with physicians, patients, and utilization management (UM) professionals to meet physicians’ orders and patients’ needs.
• RN will coordinate case management activities across a multi-disciplinary health care team to ensure appropriate, quality patient care.
• Initiate, deliver, and evaluate patient- and family-centered health teaching.
• Strive to help patients achieve optimal health outcomes, delivering compassionate care with an emphasis on the patient's experience.
• Complete all required documentation including visit assessments, OASIS, 485 and verbal orders accurately and promptly on a laptop or in written documentation while in the patient's home and according to all applicable regulatory standards.
• Attend compliance training and adhere to the organization’s standards of conduct, policies, and procedures in addition to all local, state, and federal regulatory guidelines.

• The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below. They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patients' status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients' requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.
• Zero (0) to two (2) years of experience preferred. Six (6) months of nursing experience in an Acute Care or Skilled Care Facility or Home Health or Hospice Care preferred. BSN preferred.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families. Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment. Good clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving abilities required as related to various aspects of patient care. Critical thinking skills necessary to exercise and to lead others in application of the nursing process. Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients. Successful completion of Home Health/Hospice Orientation upon hire.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse either in the state where the facility is located or in a state covered by a licensure compact agreement with the state where the facility is located.
• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire.
• Graduate nurses must complete licensure examination within SIX (6) MONTHS of hire or within one year of graduation, whichever comes first. Though temporary permits are valid for one year from the date of graduation, not one year from issue of permit (or until the results of the examination are known at which time it becomes null and void), UPMC requires that GNs take the licensure examination within 6 months of their start date or they will be terminated or demoted from the GN position, at the discretion of the BU.
  
• Automotive Insurance
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Driver's License
• Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
• Act 33
• Act 34
• OAPSA

*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.
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