RN - Home Health, Per Diem

Choose Your Schedule. Make a Difference. Thrive in Community-Based Care.

Guthrie Home Health is hiring Per Diem Registered Nurses to serve patients across Bradford, Sullivan, and parts of Tioga counties in Pennsylvania. If you’re a compassionate RN looking for flexibility and purpose, this role offers the freedom to work when it fits your life — while making a meaningful impact in the homes of those who need you most.

Whether you're picking up extra shifts or seeking a flexible way to stay clinically sharp, you'll be part of a supportive, interdisciplinary team that values your skills and your time.

Your Schedule :

• Per Diem Flexibility – Choose shifts that work for you
• Field-Based Role – Deliver care directly in patients’ homes
• Service Area – Bradford, Sullivan, and Tioga counties

Why Nurses Love Guthrie Home Health :

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About Guthrie Home Health – Towanda, PA

Guthrie Home Health is a CMS-rated Medicare-certified agency providing skilled nursing, therapy, social work, and home health aide services across Northern Pennsylvania. Our Per Diem RNs play a vital role in helping patients heal, remain independent, and thrive — while enjoying the flexibility and support of a respected health system.

Position Summary : The Registered Nurse (RN) provides professional, comprehensive nursing care for patients in an acute care environment. Accountable for the delivery of coordinated, safe, compassionate, therapeutic, evidence-based quality care to patients and families, based on individual physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and appropriate care strategies throughout the lifespan. Practices in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act in the state of employment, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses, and the ANA scope and standards of practice. Essential functions and specific skills for the job are found in the unit specific onboarding checklist and in standards that are applicable to the specialty.

Education, License & Cert :

Experience :

Essential Functions :

1. Employs Nursing Professional Practice : Assesses, diagnoses, plans, implements, and evaluates patients' care. Develops updates and coordinates the patients' plan of care to achieve patient goals and to optimize outcomes and transitions across the continuum. Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate. Performs and maintains the currency of essential competencies as required by a specific area of hire and population served.

2. Advocates : Effectively advocates for ethical and holistic care by partnering in care planning to promote the autonomy, dignity, rights, values, and beliefs of those we serve.

3. Facilitates Learning : Fosters a learning environment for patients / families, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team, including student; Facilities formal and informal learning for patients / families, nursing, other members of the healthcare team, and community.

4. Aligns Practice with Safety and Quality : Accountable for safety, identifies and corrects problems, and integrates evidence and best practice into nursing care; uses data and evidence to improve patient outcomes. Aligns patient safety, self-safety, and environmental safety as equally important for best outcomes.

5. Engages in Professional Development : Engages in ongoing professional development; practices at the top of license within the legal parameters of the Nurse Practice Act, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, and specialty standards. Promotes a culture of inquiry that explores, integrates, and disseminates research and evidence-based practice.

6. Leader in Practice Setting & Community : demonstrates leadership as change agents using the collaborative leadership skills of advocacy, influence and innovation. In partnering with colleagues appropriately delegates, coordinates care, and collaborates with others as equal members of the inter-professional care team to integrate nursing knowledge. Models professional behaviors as a representative of the nursing profession.

7. Participates in the planning and presentation of educational programs.

8. It is understood that this description is not intended to be all-inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of the position.

Other Duties :

1. Proficiency in Information Technology, such as electronic health records, communication systems, computers, and equipment necessary to perform essential functions of the position.

2. Skilled to work with a wide range of staff as part of an interdisciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff.

3. Ability to use independent, critical judgment in all aspects of patient care delivery.

4. Demonstrated interpersonal skills that convey a positive and supportive attitude.

5. Ability to effectively manage multiple responsibilities, urgent responses, and challenging situations.