Registered Nurse at Optum

WellMed, part of the Optum family of businesses, is seeking a Registered Nurse RN Field Home Health to join our team in Austin, Texas. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Provides skilled nursing services and assists with the coordination of home health care services for assigned patients.  Ensures quality and safe delivery of home health care services in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and policies.

  
This is a field base position that requires traveling around the Austin Texas area and surrounding counties supporting Homecare Dimensions’ Patients. Required on calls (weekday and weekends), mileage reimbursement and shift differential offered.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Performs nursing assessments and develops, implements and evaluates plans of care in conjunction with the physician, patient and caregivers per agency policy and procedure


• Evaluates the effectiveness of the plan of care, the patient’s response to care and outcomes of care and revises the plan of care as needed


• Re-evaluates patient nursing needs to include on-going assessments using the OASIS data set at appropriate time points


• Provides skilled nursing services that require substantial and specialized nursing care including medication administration, wound care, therapeutic treatments, and skilled teaching as ordered and indicated


• Plans and implements patient health teaching and health counseling regarding the disease process(es), self-care techniques and prevention and involves the patient’s significant others in accomplishing health goals while promoting patient/family independence


• Participates in health promotion and disease prevention activities


• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures following the physician’s plan of care


• Coordinates services and scheduling with the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) and Clinical Team Coordinator (CTC) to include recommendations for additional home health care services for patients to within 24 hours of Start of Care (SOC)


• Assesses the patient‘s condition during every home health care visit; insures assessments are communicated to the Clinical Team Manager on a daily basis; nursing interventions are implemented to meet patient needs and changed conditions


• Performs care management duties on patients as assigned including: notifying the physician of changes in the patient’s condition or progress toward goals, obtaining needed physicians orders, reassessing the patient for recertification, supervision of LVNs and home health aides, attending and documenting case conferences, coordination of care by reporting of significant findings to others on the healthcare team, and planning for, notification of and documenting the discharge of the patient


• Documents all communications with the patient, family, physician, CTM, pharmacy, other disciplines, and appropriate others as indicated on communication notes


• Prepares a written plan for the Home Health Aide to follow, if applicable


• Expresses verbal and written communication in a clear, positive and cooperative manner

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications: 

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing


• Current unrestricted Texas RN license or compact license


• BLS certification


• 1+ years of experience in home health care or related environment


• Proven developed computer skills


• Demonstrated ability to lift and transfer patients


• Access to reliable transportation that will enable you to travel to client and/or patient sites within a designated area

Preferred Qualifications: 

• IV certification


• Wound experience

In 2011, WellMed partnered with Optum to provide care to patients across Texas and Florida. WellMed is a network of doctors, specialists and other medical professionals that specialize in providing care for more than 1 million older adults with over 16,000 doctors’ offices. At WellMed our focus is simple. We’re innovators in preventative health care, striving to change the face of health care for seniors. WellMed has more than 22,000+ primary care physicians, hospitalists, specialists, and advanced practice clinicians who excel in caring for 900,000+ older adults. Together, we‘re making health care work better for everyone.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.  

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.