Home Health RN

Job Summary

The Home Health RNs provide personalized care tailored to each patient's needs, balancing independence with support from a collaborative care team.

PATIENT CARE

• 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.
• Develops a care plan, establishing goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporating 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.
• Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.
• Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan of care.
• Identifies discharge planning needs as part of the care plan development and implements prior to discharge of the patient.
• Acts as Case Manager when assigned by Clinical Manager and assumes responsibility to coordinate patient care for assigned caseload.

COMMUNICATION

• Prepares clinical notes and updates the primary physician when necessary and at least every 60 days.
• Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports any changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physician’s orders as required.
• Communicates with community health related persons to coordinate the care plan.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

• Participates in on-call and holiday duties.
• Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.
• Instructs, supervises and evaluates home health aide care provided in accordance with state and federal regulations.

Position Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• One (1) to two (2) years of acute care experience in an institutional setting preferred.
• Current licensure in state and CPR certification.
• Complies with acceptable professional standards and practice.
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, basic math skills; nursing skills per competency checklist.
• Prolonged or considerable walking or standing.
• Able to lift, position or transfer patients.
• Able to lift supplies and equipment.
• Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling or crouching.
• Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills.
• May occasionally be in a position to lift and/or carry an item weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Licensed driver with automobile that is in good working order and insured in accordance with the organization requirements.
• Requires knowledge of potential exposure to communicable diseases and bodily fluids.
• Requires working under stress in emergency situations during irregular hours.