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For nurses who value both clinical independence and meaningful patient relationships, home health and hospice nursing offers an opportunity to bring skilled care directly into the patient’s home. This Registered Nurse position with Alacare Home Health & Hospice allows experienced nursing professionals to use their clinical judgment, assessment skills, and compassionate approach while providing personalized care to patients with a wide range of healthcare needs.
The role goes beyond routine bedside care, combining comprehensive patient assessments, skilled nursing services, education, care coordination, and clinical supervision. You’ll work closely with physicians, care managers, LPNs, home care aides, patients, and caregivers to identify changing needs and ensure appropriate care, making strong communication, sound decision-making, and respect for patient privacy essential to success in the position.
Registered Nurse Job Description
Showcase all of your nursing skills! This position offers you the opportunity to use state-of-the-art technology while delivering compassionate, personalized nursing care.
Duties include:
- Patient assessments, including physical, emotional, psychosocial, environmental and educational components
- Providing skilled nursing care to home health and hospice patients in their homes
- Identifying patient needs and making timely referrals to other disciplines in collaboration with the physician and care manager
- Supervising LPNs and home care aides
- Providing comprehensive teaching to patients and their caregivers
- Timely and appropriate documentation of patient’s status
Registered Nurse Requirements
Home health and hospice nursing are both challenging and rewarding! This job requires a person who can work independently, while never forgetting that home care is a team effort.
Other requirements include:
- Nursing degree from an accredited school of nursing (Diploma or Associate Degree)
- Current Alabama registered nurse license
- Comfort in communicating with elderly people who have multiple nursing care needs
- Willingness to work in home environments of patients who may have values or standards different from your own
- Facilitation of positive nurse-physician relationships
- Ability to make evaluations and decisions based on measurable or verifiable criteria
- Ability to turn, lift, carry, and otherwise transport the patient
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Respecting the patient’s privacy and maintaining confidentiality
- Current Alabama driver’s license and automobile liability insurance
- CPR Certification
About Alacare Home Health & Hospice
Founded in 1970, Alacare Home Health & Hospice is Alabama’s oldest and largest family-owned, Medicare-certified home health agency. Headquartered in Birmingham, AL, Alacare is dedicated to providing patients throughout Alabama the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitative, palliative, and hospice care available in the most cost-effective environment—the patient’s own home.
Overall, this Registered Nurse position offers a meaningful opportunity for nurses who want to combine clinical expertise, independence, and compassionate patient care in a home health and hospice setting. With responsibilities spanning assessment, education, coordination, supervision, and documentation, the role provides a rewarding environment for nurses who are committed to delivering high-quality care while supporting patients and families in their own homes.
