Admission Registered Nurse (RN)

Job Highlights

• Get to know your individual patients in their own environment
• Flexible workday, with an option to start and end your day from home
• Maintain a high level of autonomy
• Travel time and mileage reimbursement given
• Excellent benefits
• Become an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Strong clinical support and educational resources provided
• Work in an environment where agency culture fosters teamwork and excellence

Duties

• Completes an initial assessment of patient and family to determine home care needs.
• Provides a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es).
• Regularly re-evaluates patient nursing needs.
• Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.
• Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a care plan, which establishes goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
• Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician.
• Provides direct patient care as defined in the State Nurse Practice Act.

Requirements

• Active NH RN license
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• One (1) year of healthcare experience required; home health care experience preferred
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, basic math skills; nursing skills per competency checklist
• Proof of Flu vaccination
• Reliable transportation
• Valid driver's license
• Automobile insurance
• Physical exam within the last year
• Two-step TB test