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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Torrance, CA
Torrance, California

About this job

Providence is calling a Registered Nurse for Home Health ( Full Time / Evening Shift ) to Providence Little Company of Mary Home Health based in Torrance, CA.

This position will provide afternoon and after-hours coverage for visits, intake in the Los Angeles, South Bay and Westside areas, and administrative work from 12:30p-9:00p, or 12:00p-8:30p.

Eligible for sign-on bonus for external candidates.

In this position you will:

* Provide skilled nursing care within the scope of the Nurse Practice Act.

* Provide patient care in the home environment primary to the young, middle, and older adults

Required qualifications for this position include:

* Current California Registered Nurse ( RN ) License

* Current Basic Life Support ( BLS ) card for Healthcare Providers from the American Heart Association

* 1 years experience as a Registered Nurse

* Current valid Driver's License with no excessive violations or accidents

* Meets minimum state requirement for auto insurance.

Preferred qualifications for this position include:

* 6 months experience in Home Care

* Bachelors Degree in Nursing

* Public Health Nurse Certification

About the Home Health you will serve:

As an integral part of the respected Providence Health & Services for over 25 years, our highly skilled healthcare professionals provide a full range of Home Health and clinical specialty programs to patients experiencing an illness, hospitalization or surgery or, for those receiving treatment for a chronic or acute illness. Providence Home Health embraces everyone from new mothers and their babies to the elderly with chronic health problems.

Our team of health care professionals starts with the patient and his or her physician and may include: registered nurses; certified home health aides; social workers; physical, occupational and speech therapists. Our specialist care includes patient assessment and monitoring; bedside protime monitoring; IV therapy, total parenteral nutrition; gastric feeding tube (G-Tube) for long-term enteral nutrition; V.A.C. therapy used to promote healing in acute or chronic wounds, fight infection and enhance healing of burns; pain management; injections; and ostomy management. From same-day referrals and a smooth transition from hospital to home, to attentive follow-up and communication with your own doctor, we provide care and support for you every step of the way to help restore your health to its fullest potential. Our goal is to equip our patients with the education and resources eneded to regain and maintain good health.

As a member of Providence Health & Services, a Catholic-sponsored healthcare ministry, we believe strongly in respecting the dignity of each person, and give special concern to the most vulnerable members of our community.