Home Health Registered Nurse Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Two (2) years experience as a Registered Nurse in a clinical care setting and one (1) year full time hospice.
• Graduate of an accredited Diploma, Associate, or Baccalaureate School of Nursing.
• Current State license as a Registered Nurse
• Current driver’s license
• Nursing skills as defined as generally accepted standards of practice.
• Knowledge of state and federal regulations.
• Good interpersonal skills
• Reliable transportation and valid auto liability insurance
• Prolonged standing and walking required, with ability to lift up to 50lbs and move patients.
• Requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and patient needs, and to make quick decisions and resource acquisition; meet patient/family individualized psychosocial needs.
• Requires eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity.
• Ability to communicate with patients, families, physicians, co-workers, and visitors to be able to exchange accurate information regarding patient condition and health status.
• Ability to exchange and express information by means of language and communicate information effectively.
• Ability to hear the nature of sounds.
• Ability to give full attention to what other people are saying, take time to understand the points being made, ask questions as appropriate, and not interrupt at inappropriate times.
• Ability to make independent judgments and decisions.
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Ability to view tablet, Electronic Health Record, and review, assess, record or type data quickly and accurately.
• Ability to determine resources needed to provide quality patient care.
• Ability to travel to patient homes and office/support center locations as needed to deliver care or for education purposes.

Responsibilities

• Assess hospice patients utilizing the Nursing Assessment and LCD criteria to identify their physical, psycho-social, and environmental needs.
• Develop and document the plan of care in correlation with the Assessment
• Provides nursing care utilizing infection control measures (OSHA)
• Work with Interdisciplinary Group/Team to ensure patient/family needs are met.
• Communicate with attending physicians, hospice physicians, and other physicians involved in the patient’s care.
• Timely submission of all required paperwork.
• Demonstrates commitment and professional growth by participating in hospice-sponsored in-service programs and maintaining or improving competency. Participates in the Hospice’s QAPI program.
• Promotes the Hospice’s philosophy and administrative policies.
• Meets productivity standards.
• Performs on-call responsibilities and provides on-call services to patients and their families as assigned.
• Provides effective communication to patients, their family members, team members, and other health care professionals.