Home Health Registered Nurse (RN): 12 Hour Shifts, PEG Tube, Trach, & Wound Care Experience
Miami, Florida
We are seeking a Licensed Registered Nurse for home health care.
- Shift and hours
- 12-hour shifts
- Unit and setting
- Wound-Care · Home Health Patient is bedbound and requires skilled nursing care, including wound care (sacral area), PEG tube feeding, and tracheostomy management.Bedbound patient
- License
- RN license Current Registered Nurse (RN) License for the state in which the nurse practices.Current RN license for the state where the nurse practices
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- Current RN license for the state where the nurse practices Current Registered Nurse (RN) License for the state in which the nurse practices.
- Certification
- Current BLS card Current BLS card.
- Also asks
- Current health certificate Current Health Certificate (per facility Registered Nurse (RN) contract or state regulation).
- Also asks
- Current PPD or chest X-ray Current PPD or Chest X-Ray.
Preferred
- Experience
- 1 year prior RN experience One year prior Registered Nurse (RN) experience preferred.
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- Below most Florida staff postingsFlorida staff postings that state pay run $1,080/week to $2,140/week, the middle half $1,260/week to $1,750/week, across 1,633 postings.
Benefits
- BenefitsCompetitive salaryCompetitive salary
- BenefitsFlexible work hours where you create your own scheduleFlexible work hours where you create your own schedule
- BenefitsTailored schedulingtailored scheduling
- BenefitsIdeal drive timean ideal drive time
The role and schedule
- Patients
- Medically-fragile patients in the community caring for medically-fragile patients in your community
- Day to day
- Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
- Day to day
- Assess signs of physiologic and psychosocial change Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.
- Day to day
- Collect and interpret data; document nursing diagnoses Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.
- Day to day
- Document plan of care with diagnoses, outcomes and interventions Document the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
- Day to day
- Perform interventions per priorities, plan of care and hospital policy Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.
- Day to day
- Revise plan of care after evaluation and medical changes Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
- Day to day
- Use clinical judgment to set priorities for assigned unit/floor Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including establishing priorities.
- Day to day
- Wound care (sacral area) Patient is bedbound and requires skilled nursing care, including wound care (sacral area), PEG tube feeding, and tracheostomy management.
- Day to day
- PEG tube feeding
- Day to day
- Tracheostomy management
- Scheduling
- Self-scheduling offered
- Details
- Care delivered in the patient’s home when working in a home environment
Support on this unit
- Nurse to patient
- 1 patient to 1 nurse 1 patient: 1 nurse ratio
The workplace
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Your fit
Questions to ask
- Can you walk me through differentials?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are floating and staffing support handled day to day?
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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We are seeking a Licensed Registered Nurse for home health care.
Patient is bedbound and requires skilled nursing care, including wound care (sacral area), PEG tube feeding, and tracheostomy management.
Responsibilities
Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.
Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.
Document the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.
Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including establishing priorities.
Other Registered Nurse (RN) duties as assigned.
Requirements
Current Registered Nurse (RN) License for the state in which the nurse practices.
Current Health Certificate (per facility Registered Nurse (RN) contract or state regulation).
Current PPD or Chest X-Ray.
Current BLS card.
One year prior Registered Nurse (RN) experience preferred.
The Lakes
Benefits
Competitive salary
Flexible work hours where you create your own schedule
You can expect a 1 patient: 1 nurse ratio, tailored scheduling, and an ideal drive time when you work with The Lakes Home Care . Most importantly, you can expect a rewarding, memorable career when working in a home environment and caring for medically-fragile patients in your community.
What's around it?
Miami, FLFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 14% above the US average
- Median rent
- $1,758/mo
- Household income
- $62,462/yr, all local households, not nurse pay