Home Health Registered Nurse

4 wk. ago
Company BJC HealthCare
Location Glen Carbon, Illinois
Category Personal Care & Home Health
Employment Type Full-time
Posted on April 29, 2026
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Job Description

Additional Information About the Role

Make a Difference—One Patient at a Time

Join BJC Home Care as a Home Health Registered Nurse

BJC Home Care is seeking compassionate RNs ready to deliver meaningful 1:1 patient care in an under‑served community—while enjoying work‑life balance and flexibility.

As a Home Health RN, you’ll build trusted relationships with patients, work independently, and stay supported by a collaborative care team. This role allows you to practice at the top of your license and see the real impact of your work every day.

Schedule & Location

  • 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
  • Weekend rotation: generally every 4th
  • 4–6 on‑call nights/month
  • 2 holidays per year
  • Primarily Godfrey/Alton

Why Choose BJC Home Care?

  • 1:1 patient care
  • Company‑provided cell phone & laptop
  • Mileage reimbursement: $0.70/mile (IRS rate)
  • Up to $15,000 bonus for eligible candidates

Grow with the BJC RN Career Ladder

Advance your career through BJC’s nationally recognized RN Career Ladder—designed to support professional growth, leadership, and education. Higher ladder levels come with increased pay, allowing you to grow without leaving patient care.

 

 

*BJC Career Ladder Progression available: 

  • The BJC RN Career Ladder differentiates BJC as the place for nurses to work in the greater St. Louis area. 
  • This is a tool to empower nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression.
  • The BJC RN Career Ladder promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education and service excellence and gives staff the opportunity to continue doing what they do best - caring for patients - while having the opportunity to advance to the next step in their career.
  • Moves to higher ladder levels will result in a percentage increase of current pay that aligns with the new job description.

 

*must be willing to provide coverage in all Illinois covered regions during on-call

*Position requires registration with the Family Care Safety Registry

 

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Overview

BJC Home Care offers patients and their families a complete range of home care services, including skilled nursing services, adult and pediatric hospice and supportive care, rehabilitation therapy, home infusion therapy, infusion treatment rooms, home medical equipment and high-tech respiratory care. Specialty home care programs also are available, including adult and pediatric asthma, cardiac, diabetes, orthopedic and wound care programs.


BJC Home Care provides care to thousands of patients in both Missouri and Illinois. Serving more than 25 counties, it has become the largest home care network in the region and one of the largest in the country.

 

 

The Alton Intermittent Home Care Department of BJC Home Care Services provides home visits to patients in Alton, Illinois and several nearby counties, with 24 hour on-call home care nursing supervision. Our JCAHO accredited, multi-disciplinary approach combines leading edge technology with a firm belief in the powerful recuperative advantages of receiving home care.


Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Evaluates the client and furnishes services requiring substantial and specialized skill, appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures, and instructions to assist the client in learning appropriate self-care techniques. When assigned as case manager, the staff nurse is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care related to that patient.

 

Responsibilities

  • Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs.
  • Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care. Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care.
  • Promotes respect, equity and empathy in interactions with diverse and vulnerable populations through care delivery (e.g. support for emotional, spiritual, and cultural preferences of patient, family and/or caregivers). Practices collaborative problem solving, service recovery and advocacy for patient family centered continuity of care. Implements care by integrating data from the interprofessional team and critical thinking in a safe and timely manner.
  • Evaluates changes in patient's condition, informs and collaborates with family and/or caregivers, and communicates with interprofessional team as changes occur in plan of care, updates plan of care in EMR. Evaluates current nursing care to ensure evidence-based practice and quality patient outcomes.
  • BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

    • Minimum Requirements

    Education

  • Nursing Diploma/Associate's
    • - Nursing

    Experience

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