- Specialty
- Home Health
- Type
- Travel
- Shift
- Days
- Hours
- 40/week
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start
- 09/14/2026
Job description
Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Home Health for a travel nursing job in Lombard, Illinois.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Home Health
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 09/14/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Home Hospice RN – Job Summary
Shift: Day, 8-hour shifts | 40 hours/week
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:30 PM
Guaranteed Hours: Yes
Key Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of Home Hospice or Home Health experience
- Active RN license
- BLS certification
- Valid Driver’s License
- Valid Auto Insurance and personal vehicle
- Experience with EPIC Remote Client
- First-time travelers accepted
Required Skills
- Home hospice and end-of-life care
- Pain and symptom management
- Patient and family education
- Care coordination and triage
- Wound care and dressing changes
- Wound VAC management
- Weekly wound measurement and photography
- Drain care: PleurX, nephrostomy, Foley
- End-of-life planning
- Strong organization and time-management skills
Patient Population
- Adults only
- Failure to thrive
- Advanced cancers
- End-stage COPD
- Terminal illnesses and end-stage disease processes
Workload
- Approximately 4–5 patients per day
- Total caseload of approximately 12–15 patients
Territory
Coverage includes areas such as:
Lynwood, Calumet, Calumet City, Calumet Park, Riverdale, and Dolton
Additional Details
- Home visits required
- Quarterly in-person team meetings at Trinity Hospital
- Initial supply pickup at the regional office in Oak Brook
- Phone, laptop, and trunk stock provided
- Other Hospice RNs and management available by phone
- Orientation: NEO plus approximately 1–2 weeks, based on experience and comfort level
- No weekends
- No on-call
- No holidays
- Free parking
- Scrubs: Navy blue or any solid professional color; no graphics, logos, or designs
About Care Career
Care Career brings together a portfolio of leading healthcare staffing organizations, each delivering specialized talent solutions across the industry. Wherever you want to go, We Make It Happen.
With travel nursing jobs across the country, you can discover the possibilities that create the lifestyle and financial position that you have dreamed of.
Care Career is a modern, transparent staffing firm creating the ultimate community of US.
Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Weekly pay
- Medical benefits
- Continuing Education
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits