As a full-continuum provider, AHN Healthcare@Home is dedicated to improving the lives of our patients at any stage from the rehabilitative services of home health to the compassionate, end-of-life care of hospice.

AHN Healthcare@Home employs nearly 1,800 full-time and part-time clinical and non-clinical professionals. Choosing a career path with AHN Healthcare@Home will allow you to develop and use your skills in any one of our specialty practices, including, home health, palliative, or hospice. If you share our commitment to delivering the highest quality care and keeping clients safe at home, then join our team of compassionate professionals.

AHN Healthcare@Home serves patients and families across Pennsylvania.
Complete the Quick Application and discover an opportunity in your area.

Complete the Quick Application and discover an opportunity in your area.

Home Health Registered Nurse

CATEGORY: Nursing
AVAILABILITY: Full-time & Part-time

Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality care in the home by developing a plan of care in collaboration with the patient/caregiver, the patient’s physicians, and other care disciplines.
• Follow disease management processes and established protocols to ensure the goals determined in the plan of care are met.
• Educate patients and caregivers on the management of their illness to encourage compliance and prevent rehospitalizations.
• Reassess patients to determine if plan of care needs have changed or if it may be appropriate to recommend other disciplines, advanced care planning, or hospice.
• Oversee and document home health aide and licensed practical nurse care plans.
• Organize daily schedule by assessing individual patient needs and priorities.
• Document in Homecare Homebase (HCHB), AHN Healthcare@Home’s EMR, through a company-provided tablet.

Qualifications:

• Must hold, in good standing, a license as a Registered Nurse, issued by the state in which you work.
• A minimum of one (1) years of experience working as a Registered Nurse including some medical/surgical experience and/or an acute care or home care setting is preferred.
• Strong communication and organizational skills and high standard of ethics and compliance.
• Ability to document within an electronic medical record.
• Associate Degree from an accredited School of Nursing or higher preferred.

Hospice Registered Nurse
AVAILABILITY: Full-time & Part-time

Responsibilities:

Provide skilled nursing assessment, planning, and coordination of services in order to maximize the comfort and health of patients and families, under the general direction of the Medical Director and/or the attending physician. Educate contracting facilities and community members and meet with multidisciplinary team and groups to market hospice services.

• Accurately complete required documentation within 24 hours of patient visit
• Assume responsibility for a patient/family caseload that includes the assessing, planning and implementation, and evaluation phases of the nursing process
• Initiate communication with attending physicians, multidisciplinary hospice team members, and agencies as needed to coordinate optimal care and use of resources for the patient/family
• Communicate with physicians, agencies, and team to coordinate patient/family care
• Obtain data on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that may influence patient/family health status and communicate that data in team meetings to formulate an Interdisciplinary Plan of Care
• Maintain up-to-date patient records so that problems, plans, actions, and goals are accurately and clearly stated and changes are reflected as they occur
• Coordinate physical care of the patient and instruct primary caregivers, volunteers, and Home Health Aides in providing direct care as appropriate
• Review and update Hospice Certified Nursing Assistant care plan per agency guidelines and standards
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings to facilitate discussion of patient/family status in order to evaluate and revise the interdisciplinary team plan of care
• Provide appropriate support at time of death and period of bereavement as needed
• Complete all mandatory education requirements
• Represent the company in professional and community activities as requested
• Attend and participate in all required agency meetings
• Understand Medicare-disease specific criteria, hospice level of care, and hospice benefit
• Ensure the clients have prescribed medications and/or treatment supplies, updating file as changes occur
• Profile/reconcile medications in conjunction with pharmacy vendors and physician
• Follow up as needed and appropriately with doctor’s office, hospice multi-disciplinary team, and management staff pertaining to any concerns regarding patient care
• Communicate with physicians, agencies, and team to coordinate patient/family care
• Participate in quality initiatives with problem-solving via action items
• Comply with Company’s Core Values and Core Competencies
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor

Qualifications:

• Associate degree from an accredited School of Nursing
• Holds, in good standing, a license as a Registered Nurse issued by the state in which you work
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience working as a Registered Nurse including Hospice experience
• Proficiency in agency IT programs or demonstrated proficiency in all tools for documentation
• Able to meet the physical demands of providing nursing care, ambulating patients, transferring patients, assisting with exercises, etc.
• Able to transfer patients as needed according to proper techniques of body mechanics to promote patient and staff safety
• Possesses and maintains current CPR and BCLS certification