UPMC
Location
Williamsport, PA | United States
Job description
UPMC Susquehanna Home Care & Hospice is hiring a casual RN to help support the Inpatient unit.
Are you a nurse looking for a rewarding career where you can provide direct, one-on-one patient care? UPMC Susquehanna Home Care & Hospice 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.
This role is casual with various shifts for day, evening, night shift. 8 and 12 hour shifts available. As an RN with UPMC Hospice, 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 our inpatient unit.
Why choose UPMC Hospice IPU?
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.
Graduate of an accredited nursing program
New graduate and experience nursing considered
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 are necessary to exercise and to lead others in the application of the nursing process. Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients. Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances: Graduate nurses must complete licensure examination within FOUR 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 4 months of their start date or they will be terminated or demoted from the GN position, at the discretion of the BU.
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Registered Nurse (RN) OR Temporary Practice Permit (TPP)
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UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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