Find your calling at Mercy!
The Registered Nurse (RN) utilizes the nursing process to provide safe, effective, and patient-centered care while maintaining professional accountability for assigned patients. The RN evaluates the effectiveness of care provided by other direct caregivers and coordinates patient care collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams. This position upholds patient rights, maintains confidentiality, and performs all duties in alignment with Mercy’s mission, values, and Service Standards.
Position Details:
FSM Home Health provides short-term, insurance-approved care focused on delivering high-quality patient outcomes in the comfort of patients’ homes. Services are generally provided for 60 days or less, with care authorized in 60-day increments.
This role serves patients within a 50-mile radius of Fort Smith, Arkansas, supporting a defined service area limited to the state of Arkansas. RNs work a standard Monday–Friday schedule (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM) with occasional participation in weekend call rotation on a voluntary basis.
Home Health nursing offers a high level of autonomy, requiring strong time management, independent decision-making, and effective patient scheduling. The role involves detailed electronic documentation and consistent use of technology, making comfort with digital systems essential.
Candidates should be organized, adaptable, and confident working independently in the field. Reliable transportation is required, with mileage reimbursed per organizational policy.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
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Why Mercy?
From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support including RN to BSN Assistance, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.
From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.
At Mercy, care is more than a job - it’s a calling.
Every day, our caregivers bring compassion, skill and purpose to the communities we serve across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Whether you're building your career at the bedside, in a clinic or supporting care behind the scenes, you’ll find meaningful ways to make an impact - while growing in a way that’s uniquely yours.
As a physician-led, integrated health system with more than 50 hospitals and nearly 1,000 care sites, Mercy combines advanced technology, collaboration and a shared commitment to better care.
Rooted in a faith-based mission and inspired by the legacy of the Sisters of Mercy, our work is guided by a deep sense of purpose - to care for the whole person and serve our communities with compassion and dignity.
Here, you’ll find an environment where you’re supported to grow, connected to a team that cares and empowered to do your best work.
Because at Mercy, there are many paths - but one calling.
