Field Nurse, Home Care - Per Visit EASTERN LONG ISLAND (1 Year of Home Care Experience Highly Preferred. Up to $96.45 per visit.)

NYU Langone Health • Garden City, NY

99d • $65 - $72 • Remote

About The Position

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is seeking a Field Nurse, Home Care - Per Visit for the Eastern Long Island area. This role involves providing safe, quality, therapeutic, and age-appropriate nursing care using evidence-based practice. The nurse will utilize clinical expertise in assessment, clinical decision-making, practice, and patient education. A key aspect of the role is coordinating care with the interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes and satisfaction. The position offers per-visit rates for weekend initial visits ($96.45), weekday initial visits ($91.10), and revisits ($65.00).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing required for employees hired after 9/1/2020 (those who were hired prior to 9/1/2020 are grandfathered).
• Current and valid New York State Registered Professional Nurse license.
• Current and valid BLS certification.
• Knowledge of standards of practice for all areas of patient care.
• Excellent communication (oral and written), organizational, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Basic computer skills.

Nice To Haves

• 1 Year of Home Care Experience Highly Preferred
• Bachelor s Degree Nursing
• Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Completes a comprehensive nursing assessment including but not limited to physical, functional, psychosocial, emotional, cognitive, sexual, cultural, age related, environmental, spiritual, transpersonal and economic factors in a systematic and ongoing process while honoring the uniqueness of the patient.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Assist Agency leadership with achieving corporate goals, improving quality of patient care outcomes and patient satisfaction. Participate in Agency quality assessment performance improvement initiatives.
• Complete and maintain accurate, complete and timely documentation reflecting the assessment, examination, diagnosis, prognosis, plan of care, education intervention and evaluation according to Federal, Department of Health and The Joint Commission requirements.
• Identifies deficits and barriers to effective knowledge understanding of education provided to patients. Employs strategies to optimize patient engagement. Demonstrates caring behaviors toward patients, family and other caregivers.
• Delivers direct nursing care, ongoing assessment, teaching and training to patients caregivers that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity, rights, values, and benefits using evidence based nursing practice.
• Responsible for the coordination of care by interacting and collaborating with other members of the healthcare team to optimize patient outcomes, patient satisfaction and health care goals.
• Derives the diagnoses and needs from the assessment data, validates the diagnoses, and collaborates with the patient, family, caregivers and physician to develop an individualized plan care to attain expected quality outcomes.

Benefits

• financial security benefits
• a generous time-off program
• employee resources groups for peer support
• holistic employee wellness program, which focuses on seven key areas of well-being: physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level