Field Nurse - Home Care Division - SIGN ON BONUS - $5,000
About The Position
NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center offering sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care across numerous medical and surgical specialties. As a major regional healthcare resource, we are deeply committed to medical education and research, providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are core values, fostering an environment where talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace diversity and value individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. This exciting opportunity in the Home Care Division involves providing safe, high-quality, therapeutic, and age-appropriate nursing care using evidence-based practices. The Field Nurse will utilize clinical expertise in assessment, decision-making, practice, and patient education. A key aspect of this role is coordinating care with the interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes and satisfaction.
Requirements
- Current Registered Professional Nurse in New York
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing required
- Basic Life Support Certification through the American Heart Association
- Fluent written and spoken English language skills
- 1-2 years Acute care facility OR Home Health, Hospice, and Long Term Home Health Care Program
- Excellent communication (both oral and written), interpersonal, customer service skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Working knowledge of Computers
- Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
Responsibilities
- Performs other duties as assigned
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Assist Agency leadership with achieving corporate goals, improving quality of patient care outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- Participate in Agency quality assessment/performance improvement initiatives.
Benefits
- financial security benefits
- a generous time-off program
- employee resources groups for peer support
- holistic employee wellness program (physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
