Home Health Nurse Observatory

UPMC Home Health is hiring a full-time RN for the Bellevue, Observatory, West View and North Side areas.

Are you a nurse looking for a rewarding career where you can provide direct, one-on-one patient care? UPMC Home Healthcare 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.

Monday - Friday daylight shifts with rotations for on-call and weekends. As an RN with UPMC Home Healthcare, 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 a home setting.

Why choose UPMC Home Healthcare

• 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 accredit school of professional nursing required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Prior nursing experience preferred

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances :

• Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse either in the state where the facility is located or in a state covered by a licensure compact agreement with the state where the facility is located OR TPP
• CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
• Automotive Insurance
• Driver's License
• Act 33
• Act 34
• OAPSA
• Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state.

Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran