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SolutionHealth

Nonprofit health system in southern New Hampshire

Licensed Practical Nurse Home Care

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeManchester, NH, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Graduate of an accredited school of Licensed Practical Nursing.
  • At least 2 years of previous clinical experience is required; home care experience is preferred.
  • New Hampshire Licensed Practical Nurse licensure is required.
  • Current Basic Life Support certification is required, or it must be obtained within 90 days of hire.
  • A valid driver's license is required for travel throughout southern New Hampshire, along with proof of automobile insurance.
  • A motor vehicle background report will be conducted.
  • Work schedules may include 8 to 12 hours per day, weekend, evening, and night coverage according to VNA needs. Staff are expected to cover absences by rotating or working extra time and are assigned to the VNA service area to meet patient needs.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver home health care to clients and patients of all ages and their families, addressing needs ranging from basic to complex and rapidly changing, using the nursing process.
  • Create a therapeutic environment by identifying and treating human responses to actual or potential health problems through case finding, health teaching, health counseling, and care supportive of or restorative to life and well-being.
  • Practice under the direction of the Clinical Manager and supervision of the RN, in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
  • Assess patients' physical and psychosocial status and the home environment.
  • Review medical data before delivering patient care, document and communicate patient status, and assess needs for the Home Care Nurses.
  • Under the direction of the Home Care RN, participate in developing patient care plans that facilitate health care, promote patient comfort and well-being, and include the patient and family.
  • Communicate appropriate information to patients, peers, managers, physicians, the department, and other agencies involved.
  • Apply problem-solving methodology and quality improvement to patient-care and organizational-process issues.
  • Provide nursing care while promoting patient dignity and a calm, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients and families.
  • Obtain prior authorizations and document adequately to prevent write-offs.
  • Explain insurance coverage and cost of care to patients or significant others.

Desired Qualifications

  • Home care experience is preferred.

About the Company

SolutionHealth

Nonprofit health system in southern New Hampshire

SolutionHealth is a nonprofit health system for southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. Its member organizations are Elliot Health System, Southern New Hampshire Health and Home Health & Hospice Care, which provide inpatient, outpatient, specialty, urgent, home-health and hospice services; primary care providers and specialists serve patients across the region. SolutionHealth keeps information technology as a shared function, while member organizations deliver clinical care through local systems. Elliot Health System and Southern New Hampshire Health formed the system in 2018, and Home Health & Hospice Care joined in 2022. SolutionHealth is a 501(c)(3) governed by a volunteer board and based in Bedford, New Hampshire.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Bedford, NH
Founded
2018

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