Home Health Weekend Registered Nurse
About The Position
The Home Health Weekend Registered Nurse uses the nursing process—assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation—to provide individualized care in patients’ homes. The role serves patients across developmental stages and is primarily responsible for initial assessments and case development, based on the nurse’s experience and competency evaluation. The nurse also performs visits that are not start-of-care visits as needed to help ensure physician orders are followed and patients receive quality care. The nurse assesses and manages new patients, coordinates care with a multidisciplinary team, and conducts follow-up visits when necessary. The position typically works Friday through Sunday, with additional work times possible, and serves adolescents, adults, geriatric patients, and pediatric patients.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited or approved school of nursing through an associate degree, diploma, or BSN program.
- Current license to practice professional nursing in the state where care is provided (North Carolina or South Carolina).
- Two years of nursing experience.
- Ability to coordinate hand-eye movements to give injections and use a computer; communicate and read English; and manipulate patient-care equipment to transfer and guard patients safely.
- Ability to develop positive interactions with patients, their families, physicians, and staff.
- Ability to transfer or maneuver objects weighing at least 50 pounds; frequently push, move, and lift patients; position, bathe, and ambulate patients; and occasionally reach overhead, climb stairs, and perform fine motor tasks.
- Ability to assess patients, formulate care plans, select interventions, evaluate responses to care, and explain or teach patients about their condition and recovery; ability to prioritize duties, learn new skills and techniques, and use supportive services.
- Ability to visually assess patients and use sight to implement and evaluate care, and to use hearing to auscultate sounds, hear alarms, and communicate effectively.
- Valid North Carolina driver’s license and an operational vehicle.
- Ability to work typically Friday through Sunday, with additional work times possible.
Nice To Haves
- Home health experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Assess, interpret, plan, implement, and evaluate patients according to their age and diagnosis.
- Manage assessments of new patients and coordinate care with a multidisciplinary team; perform follow-up visits when necessary.
- Communicate information in accordance with agency policies, procedures, and discipline-specific guidelines.
- Contribute to program effectiveness.
- Organize and perform work effectively and efficiently.
- Maintain and adjust the schedule to enhance agency performance.
- Demonstrate a daily commitment to agency values, mission, and vision.
- Maintain positive interpersonal relationships with agency members.
- Maintain and promote customer satisfaction.
- Perform non-start-of-care visits as needed to ensure physician orders are followed and patients receive quality care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
