RN WEEKEND - Home Health

Independence Health System Careers•Greensburg, PA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves providing direct and indirect patient care in a home health setting. The Registered Nurse (RN) will maintain professional and technical knowledge, ensure quality of care, protect patients and employees through adherence to safety protocols, and document patient services. The position requires maintaining patient confidence, identifying patient needs, establishing a compassionate environment, and promoting patient independence. The RN will also resolve patient problems, maintain cooperative relationships with healthcare teams, and ensure the proper functioning of equipment and supplies. A key aspect of the role is to work collaboratively with case managers and other agency staff to ensure continuity of care and to provide direct and indirect supervision of Home Health Aides. Specific to the Maternal/Child Nurse Role, responsibilities include providing prenatal nursing services, assessing and monitoring high-risk pregnancies, instructing and assessing postpartum patients and newborns, and assessing child development. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited Nursing Program required.
Strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, sound judgment, and knowledge of legal aspects and liability of nursing practice.
Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience.
Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Pennsylvania required.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) approved curriculum of the American Heart Association (CPR and AED) program required.
Act 33 with renewal
Act 34 with renewal
Act 73 FBI Clearance
Valid Driver’s License (if out of state hire, the record report from applicable state driver’s license department is required)

Nice To Haves

One (1) year experience in medical/surgical nursing or other healthcare related field
IV and phlebotomy training
Certification in an applicable area
Experience in Healthcare setting

Responsibilities

Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending education workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following system/hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
Maintain continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs using Nurse Knowledge Exchange techniques.
Maintain patient confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.
Identify patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients, and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.
Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
Promote patient's independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching patient/family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions.
Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.
Resolve patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
Maintain a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information, responding to requests, building rapport, and participating in team continuous quality improvement and problem-solving methods.
Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Ensure operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements by following manufacturer's instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, calling for repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
Maintain nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level, anticipating needed supplies, placing and expediting orders for supplies, verifying receipt of supplies, and using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following Home Health & Hospice and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and controlled substance regulations.
Document patient care and services by charting in patient and department records.
Maintain continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs using Nurse Knowledge Exchange techniques.
Maintain nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; placing, and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish results.
Work collaboratively with the case manager, and on call RN, and other agency staff in the provision of patient care.
Ensure communication of patient care needs to the primary care staff in order to facilitate continuity of care.
Provide direct and indirect supervision of personal care provided by the Home Health Aides in the patients’ homes, in accordance with federal regulation and accrediting bodies.
Provide prenatal nursing services, which include instruction, assessment and monitoring of the physical and emotional status of the patient with a high-risk pregnancy for early detection and intervention of complications.
Instruct and assess the postpartum patient and newborn for early detection and intervention of complications.
Instruct and assess the newborn and child’s physical and emotional development, adjustment, and/or abnormalities and reports to the physician.
Other duties as assigned.