Registered Nurse - Home Care - Green Bay

Clarity Care•Green Bay, WI

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse works one on one with clients through Clarity Care’s Residential and Occupational Health Departments, focusing on our internal and external customer’s needs to help them achieve improved quality of life, employment, and a sense of independence. This role involves providing quality nursing services, assisting in planning and coordinating home care and residential services, and ensuring compliance with all State, Federal, and Nursing regulations.

Requirements

Current licensure as a registered nurse under s.441.06, Wis. Stats.
Training and experience in the provision of personal care services or in a related program.
Undergo successful orientation and participate in competency-based assessments of skills on a regular basis as required by state law.

Responsibilities

Provide quality Nursing services to Clarity Care clients
Assist in planning, developing, implementing, coordinating and evaluating home care and residential services provided to clients.
Comply with all State, Federal, and Nursing regulations.
Perform client assessments, admissions and discharges.
Evaluate the need for services and make referrals to other services as appropriate.
Secure written orders from the client’s physician, renewed every three months unless physician specifies otherwise or client needs change.
Develop a plan of care for the client, considering client preferences, interpreting the plan to personal care workers, including a copy in the client’s health record, and reviewing it at least every 60 days.
Promptly notify a client’s physician or other appropriate medical personnel and lead representative of any significant changes in the client’s condition.
Develop appropriate time and service reporting mechanisms for personal care workers and instruct employees on their use.
Provide written instructions and demonstrate services to personal care workers or residential employees.
Evaluate the competency of personal care workers or residential employees.
Supervise, delegate, evaluate, and instruct Clarity Care and contracted Home Care employees as needed.
Take accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments and record in client records.
Document patient care services by charting in client and department records.
Promote client’s independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, or family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answer questions.
Participate in the agency’s Occupational Health program by screening the health of new employees.
Administer, read and document results of a 2 step TB test on new employees.
Participate in on call rotation as directed.
Travel to remote locations as needed.