Home Care Admssions Nurse (LPN)
Springfield, Missouri
You'll help with admissions and assessments.
- Unit and setting
- Home Health
- License
- LPN license have a current unrestricted license to work in the state of Missouricurrent unrestricted Missouri license
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- current unrestricted Missouri license have a current unrestricted license to work in the state of Missouri Check your license
- Certification
- CPR certification and be CPR certified
- Education
- Certificate of Practical Nursing and/or associate degree LPN must be 21 years of age with a HS diploma and a Certificate of Practical Nursing and/or Associate Degree
- Experience
- 2 years direct patient contact in a skilled nursing facility or in-home care agency The LPN/RN must have a minimum of 2 years of direct patient contact with either a Skilled Nursing Facility or an In- Home Care Agency.
- Also asks
- at least 21 years old LPN must be 21 years of age
- Also asks
- high school diploma
What it pays
Benefits
- Benefitsmedical insuranceMedical, Vision, Dental, and Life insurance
- Benefitsvision insurance
- Benefitsdental insurance
- Benefitslife insurance
- Benefitspaid time offPaid Time off and holiday pay
- Benefitsholiday pay
More benefits (3)
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
- Paid Travel
The role and schedule
- Day to day
- wound care and dressing changes Treat wounds, change wound dressings, give injections, administer enemas
- Day to day
- injections
- Day to day
- enemas
- Day to day
- specimen collection from patients Collect specimens from patients
- Day to day
- medication administration and dispenser setup Administers medications and sets up medication dispensers.
- Day to day
- vital signs Measures and records vital signs
- Day to day
- hands-on care and patient education Provide hands-on care and patient education utilizing At Home Care Policy.
- Day to day
- outreach visits to LTC and hospital facilities Regularly visits LTC and Hospital facilities to assist with outreach and marketing
- Day to day
- sales presentations and community outreach Develops sales by making initial presentations; explaining products and services; and by performing community outreach.
- Day to day
- supervising assigned staff supervising assigned team members
- Details
- reports directly to the Director of Nursing The LPN/RN will report directly to the Director of Nursing.
The workplace
You are weighing At Home Care in Springfield, Missouri. This is a home-care setting in a city whose cost of living sits about 11% below the national level, with housing often described as highly affordable and a neighborly feel that…
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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Your fit
On your path
Home Health is a specialty you move into. Agencies want acute time first, then train the home-specific work.
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Job Purpose
Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members. The LPN/RN will report directly to the Director of Nursing.
Skills/
Qualifications
LPN must be 21 years of age with a HS diploma and a Certificate of Practical Nursing and/or Associate Degree, and have a current unrestricted license to work in the state of Missouri and be CPR certified. The LPN/RN must have a minimum of 2 years of direct patient contact with either a Skilled Nursing Facility or an In- Home Care Agency.
Job
Responsibilities
Provide skilled nursing interventions in the treatment of the patient’s illness, rehabilitative needs, and preventive care. Utilize a skilled approach in the provision of problem-specific therapeutic interventions, teachings, and training activities in accordance with the plan of care. Assists with admissions and assessments Regularly visits LTC and Hospital facilities to assist with outreach and marketing
Develops sales by making initial presentations; explaining products and services; and by performing community outreach. He or she will provide education to the clients, hospital staff, physicians, and community stakeholders on Home Care Services and the admission process. Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; and supervising assigned team members.
Confer with the RN supervisor regarding needed changes in the Plan of Treatment/Care. Provide hands-on care and patient education utilizing At Home Care Policy. Treat wounds, change wound dressings, give injections, administer enemas Collect specimens from patients Administers medications and sets up medication dispensers.
Measures and records vital signs Reports and observes changes in patient conditions to the Director of Nursing
What's around it?
Springfield, MOFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 11% below the US average
- Median rent
- $964/mo
- Household income
- $49,311/yr, all local households, not nurse pay