About Us
InTouch Home Care, Inc. is a growing, Medicare-certified, Joint Commission-accredited provider of home health nursing and rehabilitation services across 9 counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are adding a per diem Registered Nurse to serve patients on the Peninsula.
The Role
As a Home Health RN, you will assess, plan, and coordinate skilled nursing care for patients in their own homes. You will manage your own caseload and work with patients, families, physicians, and community partners to help patients recover and stay safely at home.
What You'll Do
- Complete start-of-care, recertification, resumption-of-care, and discharge assessments, including a full physical assessment and illness history
- Complete accurate, timely OASIS documentation that supports the plan of care, medical necessity, and homebound status
- Re-evaluate patient needs regularly and revise the plan of care as the patient's condition changes
- Develop individualized care plans with goals based on nursing diagnoses, involving the patient and family
- Administer medications and treatments as ordered by the physician, and perform medication reconciliation and review
- Provide skilled interventions such as wound care, disease management, and post-hospital recovery
- Provide patient and family education and counseling, including teach-back
- Identify discharge planning needs at start of care and carry out the discharge plan
- Serve as case manager, coordinating care for your assigned caseload and working with therapy and other disciplines
- Perform blood draws and IV therapy as patient needs require
- Supervise and evaluate home health aides every two weeks, and LVNs monthly (RNs only)
Communication & Documentation
- Complete clinical notes and visit documentation promptly and in line with Medicare and agency standards
- Update physicians on changes in patient condition, obtain orders as required, and follow up on order signatures
- Coordinate care with community health partners
- Stay in contact with the agency through our HIPAA-compliant messaging app
- Support quality and compliance standards, including accreditation and regulatory requirements
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited nursing school
- Active California RN license and CPR certification
- 1–2 years of recent acute care experience in an institutional setting
- Home health experience preferred
- OASIS documentation knowledge preferred (OASIS-E experience a plus)
- Familiarity with Medicare home health regulations preferred, including homebound criteria, skilled need, face-to-face requirements, and PDGM
- Experience with a home health EMR preferred
- Strong assessment, communication (verbal and written), problem-solving, and basic math skills, with nursing skills per competency checklist
- Valid driver's license and a reliable, insured vehicle that meets state and agency requirements
- Able to walk or stand for long periods; lift, position, and transfer patients; lift supplies and equipment; and reach, stoop, bend, kneel, or crouch as needed, with the vision and hearing required for nursing duties
Why Join InTouch
- Flexible per diem scheduling
- Autonomy and one-on-one patient care
- AI scribe tools for documentation, so you spend less time charting and more time with patients
- Supportive clinical team with OASIS and documentation QA support
- Mileage reimbursement
InTouch Home Care, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.