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Summary
IU Health Home Health provides our patients with comprehensive care delivered by a highly trained interdisciplinary team. The IU Health Home Health LPN will work closely with the RN case manager to provide skilled care in patients’ homes. The traditional, complementary, alternative, and holistic services that IU Health Home Health professionals offer add to our patients’ overall quality of life.
Home Health nurses will experience a team approach to serve patients while enjoying flexibility and autonomy to provide individualized care. Nurses provide one-on-one patient centered care utilizing critical thinking and clinical skills including (but not limited to) infusion therapy, central line care, catheter care/management, wound care, VAC management, ostomy care/management and patient education. Imagine having the time to connect with patients and families, establish meaningful relationships and assist them to achieve their treatment goals throughout the care continuum. The opportunity to deliver quality care with autonomy, while having the work-life balance this position offers, provides significant self-satisfaction and personal reward for Home Health LPNs.
Being an IU Health Home Health nurse means building a professional nursing career designed by you, with competitive benefits, a culture that embraces your outstanding strengths, provides work-life balance and supports your personal and professional goals. If you are seeking an organization where you can engage professionally, develop clinical expertise, foster learning, cultivate new relationships and fuel your spirit of inquiry, join us!
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed for you, which includes Medical-Dental-Vision, a matching 401K, PTO, tuition reimbursement program, wellness program, and more!
Shift
This is a 5 day a week 8 hour position with some on call responsibilities.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Requires graduation from a nationally accredited licensed practical nursing program.
- Requires an active Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) license in the state of Indiana or an active Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) LPN license.
- Requires Basic Life Support certification through the AHA. Other advanced life support certifications may be required per unit/department specialty according to patient care policies.
- Successful completion of orientation required.
- 1-2 years of relevant experience preferred.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at IU Health. IU Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, national origin, gender identity and/or expression, marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Indiana University Health is Indiana’s most comprehensive health system, with 16 hospitals and nearly 40,000 team members serving Hoosiers across the state. Our partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine gives our team members access to the very latest science and the very best training, advancing care for all. We’re looking for team members who share the things that matter most to us. People who are inspired by challenging and meaningful work for the good of every patient. People who are compassionate and serve with a purpose. People who aspire to excellence every day. People who are always ready to apply themselves.
