Home Health Registered Nurse

Optimal Care is where your dedication meets a rewarding career. 

As a clinician owned and operated company, we create the opportunity and environment for each employee to realize their highest potential while maintaining a personalized focus on our Patients and Families every day. We are the Midwest's premier provider of Physician Services, Home Health, and Hospice Care. Our integrated care delivery model incorporates technology, innovation and best practices. We produce value based outcomes by managing chronic disease process, rehabilitation and end of life care.

We live a simple Mission: Serve Together, Provide Value, and Deliver Exceptional Quality Care. 

What does this mean for you? At Optimal Care, you have our resolute commitment to being an exceptional place to work. Your expertise, passion and commitment to exceptional quality care will continue to thrive. With you we can build a remarkable place to work. 

Exceptional Benefits:

• Minimum of 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Company Vehicle Program for field roles
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• HSA and FSA options including Dependent Care
• Company paid Short Term Disability
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Mileage Reimbursement 
• Pet Insurance
• ID and Fraud Protection
• And more...

About the Role

Practice nursing the way it was meant to be - with time, autonomy, and the ability to truly impact your patients' lives. As a Home Health Registered Nurse, you'll provide comprehensive skilled nursing care to patients in their homes, helping them recover, manage chronic conditions, and achieve their health goals in the comfort of their own environment.  This role is perfect for an RN who values independence, clinical decision-making, and building meaningful relationships with patients and families. You'll manage your own caseload from admission to discharge, collaborating with physicians and a multidisciplinary team while having the autonomy to make clinical judgments that directly shape patient outcomes.

What You'll Do

Provide Comprehensive Nursing Care

• Conduct initial evaluations and ongoing OASIS assessments at appropriate time points
• Deliver skilled nursing services requiring specialized expertise according to physician orders
• Initiate diagnostic, preventive, and rehabilitative nursing procedures
• Demonstrate proficiency in phlebotomy, medication administration, and wound care
• Monitor and respond to changes in patient conditions promptly

Manage Your Caseload

• Assume primary responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating care
• Develop, implement, and revise individualized plans of care based on patient needs
• Make clinical decisions about when to involve other disciplines or escalate concerns
• Plan and coordinate patient discharges from services
• Maintain accurate documentation within 24 hours of visits

Teach and Empower Patients

• Educate patients and families on home nursing procedures and self-care techniques
• Teach disease prevention, injury management, and health promotion strategies
• Work toward patient and caregiver independence as the ultimate goal
• Provide counseling appropriate to each patient's condition and learning needs
• Use evidence-based teaching materials and techniques

Coordinate Multidisciplinary Care

• Collaborate with physicians, therapists, social workers, and other healthcare professionals
• Initiate and participate in client care conferences for complex cases
• Assign and supervise home health aide services, conducting required supervisory visits
• Supervise LPN/LVNs and paraprofessionals providing care
• Ensure continuity of care across all providers

Maintain Clinical Excellence

• Communicate significant findings, problems, and changes to physicians and supervisors
• Report unsafe conditi