About the Role
The Registered Nurse (RN) at Elmwood Healthcare - Home Health (Elmwood Home Care) will be responsible for delivering comprehensive nursing care to patients in their homes. You will perform a range of clinical tasks, coordinate care with other healthcare professionals, and provide education and support to patients and their families. The RN will work independently and collaboratively to ensure that each patient receives the highest standard of care tailored to their individual needs.
Department | Clinical Operations > Skilled Nursing |
Status / Type | Full Time (40-Hours / Week) |
Schedule | Monday through Friday; 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.; On-Call Rotation |
Environment | Field-Based |
Key Responsibilities:
Patient Care:Â Provide direct nursing care, including administering medications, wound care, IV therapy, and other treatments as prescribed by the physician. Monitor and assess patients' conditions and adjust care plans as needed.
Assessment and Evaluation:Â Conduct comprehensive assessments of patients' health status, including vital signs, medical history, and physical examinations. Develop and implement individualized care plans based on assessment findings and patient goals.
Care Coordination:Â Collaborate with physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to coordinate care and ensure a cohesive approach to patient management. Communicate effectively with the interdisciplinary team to address any changes in patients' conditions or needs.
Patient and Family Education:Â Educate patients and their families on disease management, medication administration, self-care techniques, and lifestyle modifications. Provide guidance and support to help patients and families manage health conditions and enhance their quality of life.
Documentation:Â Maintain accurate, detailed, and timely documentation of patient care, including progress notes, treatment plans, and any changes in patients' conditions. Ensure documentation complies with company policies, insurance requirements, and regulatory standards.
Health and Safety Compliance:Â Adhere to infection control practices, safety protocols, and all relevant regulations to ensure a safe care environment. Use medical equipment and supplies safely and appropriately.
Emotional Support:Â Provide compassionate support to patients and their families, addressing concerns and offering comfort and reassurance as needed. Foster a positive and supportive relationship with patients to encourage adherence to care plans.
Direct Patient Care / Nursing Skills:
Medication Management
Education and Reconciliation
Wound Care (Basic and Advanced, NPTW, etc.)
Infusion Therapies (Excluding IV Push)
Drain Care and Management
Catheter Care and Management
-Ostomy Care and Management
VAD Management and VAD Site Care (Excluding Discontinuation)
Venipuncture and Blood Sample Collection via VAD
Qualifications
Education: Associate's, Bachelor's Master’s or Doctoral degree in Nursing from an accredited program.
Licensure:Â Current and valid license to practice Registered Nursing (RN) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Experience:Â Minimum of one (1) year of experience as a Registered Nurse (RN), preferably in a home healthcare setting.
Skills:Â Strong clinical assessment and therapeutic skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
Certifications:Â CPR Certification with Basic Life Support (BLS) or Advanced Life Support (ALS) is required.
Other Requirements: Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and willingness to travel to patients' homes within the designated service area.
Elmwood Healthcare - Home Health
Elmwood Healthcare is looking for a committed, eager, passionate and experienced professional to join the team of highly-skilled individuals within our community-based health system.
Elmwood Healthcare's Home Health Division, Elmwood Home Care, is a multi-setting Medicare-Certified, dual-program Joint Commission accredited organization, providing both skilled medical home health care and non-skilled home care services to hundreds of communities by way of Agency branch locations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Our committment to quality and focus on enhanced, specialized care has been defining in the organic evolution of Elmwood Home Care, and our attention to high-demand and high-acuity care in the home-based setting has allowed us to deliver our reimagined home health care services to thousands of patients already. This focus, in areas such as home-infusion therapy, advanced wound care and wound management, home-safety and falls prevention, to name a few, have been met with enormous success and positive clinical outcomes for our patients and their families.
Such unique and hands-on approaches to clinical care and home-based community health management work to capture Elmwood Healthcare's system-wide emphasis on the key ideals that we embody, including: Innovation; Individual patient-centered approaches to a wide-range of specialty, chronic and acute care; Health equity and access to promote longevity, sustainability and the provision of high-quality care in community-based settings, allowing our community populations to safely and effectively age in place; And, at the forefront, the highest standards in the provision of high-quality community-based care.
Driven by a passion for community health, Elmwood Healthcare believes in the ways that community-based healthcare positively impacts our communities. Through the delivery of unmatched care, a culture of safety and respect, and endless opportunity for personal, professional and career development, we are committed to igniting change within the healthcare industry. Our focus and goal is to bring care back to the patient, and bring healthcare professionals back to doing what they love- caring for others.
Elmwood Healthcare, at large, supports and cares for communities by providing compassionate, innovative and personalized care. Through a comprehensive, community-based systems approach, we are committed to the delivery of the highest-quality of patient-centered care. Through this model, we maximize patient success and reduce hospital re-admissions to promote higher-rates of successful outcomes. For our patients, this is all possible when care is delivered in the comfort of their own home.
The dedication to each patient Elmwood Healthcare cares for goes well beyond the scope of intermittent services, with primary focus on communication, continuity and growth. Holding ourselves, our teams and our partners in the community accountable to the highest standards of care and operational integrity, Elmwood Healthcare champions the promotion of health-equity, access to viable and necessary community resources and enhanced equal opportunities for each patient and each member of our team alike.
Through these core ideals, Elmwood Healthcare places emphasis on personal and professional growth, skill acquisition through continuous hands-on training, and long-term career development within the organization to promote the development of our professionals, thereby supporting and enhancing integrated access to high quality care for our patients and their families.
Our standards are modeled to mirror those of federally-supported accrediting bodies and lead us to our commitment to ongoing and absolute compliance with local, state and federal regulations, allowing Elmwood Healthcare to further promote large scale positive impacts on our communities.
The execution of our philosophies and missions solidify Elmwood Healthcare as a pioneer community-based healthcare innovation. Pillared by models that emphasize patient-centered approaches, our goals focus on upholding quality, safety, access and equity in healthcare. Elmwood Healthcare emboldens an evolving and limitless vision of opportunity that seeks to continually empower our patients and families, our team-members and our partners in the communities that we serve.