Travel Nurse RN - Home Health - $2,524 per week

Premier Medical Staffing Services is seeking a travel nurse RN Home Health for a travel nursing job in Portage, Wisconsin.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Home Health
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Minimum experience: 2+ years home health experience, preferred
• Must have travel experience
• Required Certifications: AHA BLS, Active WI or Compact license, Valid Driver's license, OASIS cert a PLUS
• Guaranteed Hours Per Week: 38 with flex to 40 hours per week
• Weekend rotation is every 3rd-4th weekend currently
• The range is every 4-6 holiday rotation
• Floating Requirements: at times, when there is a low patient census, possibility of floating to other territories to assist when needed
• Shift requirement: 8 hr variables days, Roughly 8a-430p, but depending on census there may be flexibility to start and end times
• REQUIRED EDUCATION: Associate Degree or Certificate
• Charting Experience: Oasis REQUIRED. Epic preferred

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

• On-call: 1-2x during the week and every 3rd or 4th weekend (at least one per month)
• Response time: The clinician has 15 mins to return the answering services call. If the clinician does not call back within 15 minutes, the answering service will place a second call to the clinician and then the on-call clinical manager
• Traveler is guaranteed set hours per week, except during holidays where unit is closed

MORE INFORMATION:

• Start Date: ASAP
• Primary Location: Aspirus Home Health Portage Home Health - seeing patients Portage WI
• Travel Requirements: 20-25 patients, 4.5 visits per day on average
• It can vary from 60+ miles per day depending on the territory, patient census, staff availability, ect. Try to keep it to a minimum as much as possible
• The clinician working the weekend for admissions/routines will be also be on-call their assigned weekend
• Most often it is triaging the calls, not necessarily having to make additional visits
• The clinician can determine if it something that can be handled over the phone (such as a scheduling question or a medication question) or if the patient requires a visit by the RN (such as foley catheter troubleshooting, wound vac issue, etc.)
• The clinician is expected to contact the patient via phone and triage accordingly depending on what the call pertains to
• Unit Information: Oasis admissions, all time points, episode management, dr calls and coordination of care, documentation in EMR timely, clinical competencies in wound, IV, ports, Lab draws, chronic disease management
• Assist in case managing the Stevens Point/Plover area patients
• Hard worker, Time management, Resilient and Manages Change well, Social candidates, Dependable and Accountable, Compassionate, Positive Attitude
• Scrub Colors: N/A
• SHIFT NOTES: 8hr variable days

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