Home Health RN
Kaneohe, HI
Host Healthcare
5x8 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Opportunity: Temporary Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health

Location: Kāne‘ohe, Hawaii
Employment Type: Temporary

Job Description

• Provide excellent patient care through collaboration and coordination of case management programs.
• Act as a liaison between patients, families, nurses, physicians, multidisciplinary teams, and healthcare benefactors to optimize patient outcomes.
• Serve as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient care issues.
• Lead coordination of patient care with other disciplines, ensuring appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Monitor interdisciplinary care plans to align with patient clinical course, continuing care needs, and covered services.
• Discuss resource utilization, consultations, treatment plans, length of stay, and discharge plans with physicians.
• Focus on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain and substance abuse patients, and homeless patients.
• Collaborate with acute care case managers to ensure ongoing care appropriateness.
• Coordinate patient transfers to tertiary centers, ensuring continuity of treatment and services.
• Provide oversight and collect data for regulatory and accreditation compliance.
• Manage frequent emergency department visitors by reviewing previous and current admissions.

Contract Length

• 13 weeks

Requirements

• Valid Registered Nurse (RN) license in Hawaii
• Minimum 2 years of Home Health nursing experience, including experience within the last year
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
• Experience working in a Home Health setting
• Completion of at least one travel nursing assignment
• Proficiency with OASIS documentation system

Organizational Expectations

• Adhere to the organization's mission, vision, and values.
• Comply with behavioral standards, policies, procedures, and handbooks.
• Follow the guiding principles of the Code of Conduct.

Work Schedule

• Day shifts

Note: Mileage reimbursement is provided at a rate lower than the IRS established rate.