As a Home Care Registered Nurse, you will visit multip patients’ homes each day and provide them with a full range of personalized care, which may include such items as instruction on chronic disease management and medication, pain management, wound care, IV infusion, and postoperative instruction. Part of your job is to work with patients and provide the tools they need to ensure their own recovery. Seeing the end results of their recovery is just one of the many rewards of your position.
Your specific duties as a Home Care Registered Nurse will include:
• Providing case management as described in the Home Health Authority scope of practice and regulation for all cases involving nursing and therapy services
• Making the initial evaluation visit as applicable and re-evaluating each patient’s nursing needs on a regular basis
• Providing nursing services, treatments and diagnostic procedures requiring specialized skills and assuming full responsibility for each of your patients. Provide that diagnostic procedure is under the supervision of treating physician of patient and in compliance with Home Health Authority Home Healthcare Standard of practice.
• Participating in in-service programs, as well as training, and teaching other nursing personnel
• Developing and implementing the treatment plan for each patient under the direction of their physician
• Observing and reporting symptoms, reaction to treatments, drugs, and changes in the patient’s physical or emotional condition
• Initiating preventative and rehabilitative nursing procedures as appropriate for the patient’s care and safety. Effecting changes in environment to ensure patient safety and security.
• Maintaining clinical and progress notes for each patient receiving care and providing progress reports to their physician
• Coordinating services for patients as needed to other agencies and health care providers as appropriate.
• Counseling the patient and their family in meeting nursing and related needs
• Providing supervision of home health aide services and preparing written instructions for care provided by home health aides
• Maintaining confidentiality of patient and agency.
• Submitting required documentation in a timely manner
• Reporting observed or suspected child or adult abuse pursuant to mandated requirements.
• Assisting the Head Nurse and Home Care Program manager in decision making and policy formation as it pertains to the Home Care Program.
• Participating in surveys, studies and special projects as assigned
• Maintaining accurate time records
• In addition to scheduled hours, participating in weeke call schedule.
• Observing agency’s attendance requirements and dress code.
• Conserving agency resources and adequately maintaining agency property, supplies, and equipment.
• Adhering to all agency polices, including but not limited to, infection control and safety, education, reporting and practice implementation.
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• D license or Eligibility letter for license
• 1-3 years of nursing experience; home care experience, preferred
• Experience in Medic, ER, or ICU experience, a plus
• Solid supervisory skills
• Excellent communication skills, flexible and able to interact positively with the rest of the staff.
• Strong sense of initiative and urgency in addressing unexpected patient crises
• Self-directed, able to work without presence of immediate supervisor.
• Commitment to regulatory compliance and to submitting all documentation in a timely fashion
• Demonstrated knowledge regarding exposure to body fluids and chemicals, as well as to some hazardous equipment
• Ability to see and hear adequately to respond to auditory and visual requests
• Evidence of adequate health status to perform duties
• Ability to pass a background screen
• Physical abilities to adequately perform described duties Home Care Staff Nurse
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, hear, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift
a move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
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