Registered Nurse - Jesup, GA
About The Position
Primecare Home Care Services is a licensed Private Home Care provider offering Skilled Nursing, Personal Care Services, Companionship, and Structured Family Caregiving. The organization emphasizes care, integrity, compassion, reliability, honesty, punctuality, and professionalism, and aims to foster a supportive and collaborative environment that encourages personal growth and professional development. The Registered Nurse travels to clients' homes to complete supervisory visits as needed for clients receiving personal care assistance. The RN ensures client records comply with state regulations. A company car and fuel are provided. The position also involves assessing clients' needs, overseeing caregivers, maintaining care plans, arranging caregiver orientations, and completing monthly supervisory assessments. Supervisory visits are not billable through Medicaid.
Requirements
- Current Indiana RN license to practice nursing and render services in accordance with the provisions of the Indiana Registered Professional Nurse requirements.
- Knowledge of current methods of home management and the provision of skilled nursing/PSS care.
- Ability to supervise and coordinate the work of others, evaluate situations, make decisions, and communicate and deal effectively with others.
- Working knowledge of Rules and Regulations for Private Home Care Providers, Chapter 290-5-54.
- Working knowledge of the policies and procedures of ICWP, CCSP, SOURCE, and GAPP.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret regulations and other documents.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to present information effectively and tactfully to coworkers, employees, and others.
- Exceptional English written and verbal communication skills, including accurate grammar and business correspondence knowledge.
- Ability to write memos, reports, and correspondence that conform to prescribed style and format.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and positive working relationships.
- Organized, detail-oriented, courteous, proactive, self-motivated, dependable, and customer-service driven.
- Ability to balance multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with changing deadlines and priorities.
- Ability to work sensitively and effectively with individuals of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
- Ability to use department equipment, including telephones, personal computers, adding machines, copiers, and fax machines.
- Ability to lift and carry up to 30 pounds using appropriate body mechanics.
- Corrected vision, hearing within normal range, and ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with medically fragile patients.
- Experience in home health.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and supervise the care of members receiving homecare services.
- Review referrals, evaluate members’ skilled needs during initial and subsequent visits, and identify and assign appropriate staff to provide needed care.
- Develop and revise member care plans as appropriate; review care plans during each supervisory visit and communicate revisions to appropriate staff.
- Supervise personal care support personnel; an LPN may supervise them.
- Complete supervisory assessments, including observing each Personal Care Support caregiver or LPN providing care to the member.
- Arrange orientation for each Personal Care Support personnel member or LPN to each member they serve.
- Complete the monthly supervisory assessment.
- Ensure client records comply with state regulations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
