Registered Nurse (Ventura County) Home Health
Omega Home Health Care Services•Ventura, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Omega Home Care is seeking Registered Nurses with home health experience to provide care in Ventura County, including Ventura, Oxnard, Santa Paula, Port Hueneme, Moorpark, Ojai, and surrounding areas. The role involves assessing patients and families, developing and updating individualized care plans, providing prescribed nursing care and treatments, educating patients and families, and coordinating care with the agency, physicians, and community health providers. The nurse also ensures needed equipment and services are arranged and supervises home health aide care every two weeks. The position is per diem, with work performed on the road.
Requirements
- Current California license to practice as a registered nurse.
- Ability to perform lab draws.
- Ability to perform wound care.
- Experience with IVs, including PICC lines, central lines, and midlines.
- Tracheostomy management skills.
- Graduate of a National League for Nursing-accredited school of nursing.
- Current CPR certification.
- Valid driver’s license and insured automobile in good working order meeting state or organizational requirements.
- At least two years of home health experience is required, according to the application requirements.
- Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision.
- Excellent observation, problem-solving, verbal and written communication, and nursing skills as demonstrated by a competency checklist.
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload independently.
- Reliable transportation.
Nice To Haves
- At least one year of the stated two years of nursing experience in public health or home care nursing is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Complete initial assessments of patients and families to determine home care needs.
- Perform physical assessments and obtain histories of current and previous illnesses.
- Regularly reassess patients’ nursing needs and revise care plans as patient status and needs change.
- Use health assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
- Develop care plans with goals based on nursing diagnoses and therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative nursing actions, involving patients and families in the planning process.
- Initiate appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
- Administer medications and treatments as prescribed by physicians.
- Counsel patients and families on nursing and related needs and provide health care instructions as appropriate to the assessment and care plan.
- Identify and implement discharge-planning needs before patient discharge.
- Prepare clinical notes and update the agency when necessary.
- Communicate patient needs and changes in condition to the agency and obtain or receive physician orders as required.
- Communicate with community health-related persons to coordinate care plans.
- Ensure arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.
- Instruct, supervise, and evaluate home health aide care every two weeks.
- Supervise home health aides.
