RN Home Care Infusion-FT (Bergen/Hudson/Passaic Counties)

About the role

The Home Care Infusion RN position at Hackensack Meridian Health at Home focuses on providing professional nursing care to patients in their homes. This role requires adherence to organization policies and procedures, as well as external regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing care to patients in their home through assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of home nursing care needs on an individual and continuous basis.
• Demonstrate competency with infusion therapy.
• Absolutely comply with appropriate physician orders in a timely manner and ensure visit frequency follows physician orders.
• Absolutely ensure that documentation reflects compliance with physician's orders and addresses progression to goals being met at discharge.
• Absolutely ensure that assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation of patient care follow policy, procedure, and standard of care.
• Ensure holistic care for the patient and significant other.
• Absolutely ensure safe patient care is provided.
• Absolutely demonstrate knowledge and competency in completion of assigned treatments and procedures according to established standards and policies.
• Utilize an interdisciplinary team and accurately document all activities.
• Absolutely demonstrate clinical judgment and critical thinking reflecting professional standards of care and codes of ethics which provide for safe and effective patient outcomes.
• Absolutely document clinical decisions through the appropriate EMR system.
• Identify appropriate payors and remain in compliance with authorizations for self and other disciplines as necessary.
• Meet payor source guidelines.
• Maintain visit frequency with authorization range.
• Utilize secure messaging to insurance nurses for all authorizations.
• Absolutely ensure documentation of assessment, interventions and planning meet organization time lines.
• Complete nursing assessment, medication reconciliation and collaborate with physicians on Plan of Care.
• Update care plan within two weeks of change in patient status.
• Implement specific teaching strategies to meet established goals on the plan of care.
• Absolutely ensure documentation reflects appropriate teaching strategies in the medical chart that are consistent with goals and plans.
• Report patient care problems to manager or appropriate nursing management personnel and/or physician in a timely manner with possible solutions.
• Absolutely ensure documentation indicates case communication.
• Absolutely utilize a manager as a resource.
• Act as liaison among physicians, Manager of Clinical Practice and other members of the health care team to ensure effective coordination and appropriate resource referrals.
• Absolutely assure that coordination of services is effective and meets client's needs.
• Communicate pertinent patient information and Plan of Care during transfers of patient care loads, either on a daily basis or whenever vacation days/time-off are scheduled.
• Complete routine assignments accurately, consistently and independently in a timely manner without the need for supervision.
• Meet productivity requirements on a consistent basis.
• Absolutely maintain awareness of new/updated standards and incorporate these into nursing practice throughout the continuum of care.
• Absolutely assure documentation in the medical chart demonstrates knowledge of current practices' guidelines.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Absolutely demonstrate flexibility with job responsibilities in all areas.
• Adhere to HMH's Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
• Lifts a minimum of 50 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 50 lbs. and stands a minimum of 8 hours a day.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in Nursing or Diploma Certificate in Nursing.
• Minimum of one (1) or more years of RN Experience.
• Ability/Experience with Inserting IVs.
• Competency Requirements: With previous and recent IV experience (preferred) within one (1) year: Demonstration with preceptor inserting peripheral line, accessing ports, PICCs and central lines. Or Without previous experience or experience not within one (1) year: Will complete a vascular access device (VAD) course through HMH and follow up practicum experience in HMH outpatient infusion setting and return demonstration with preceptor inserting peripheral line, accessing ports, PICCs and central lines.
• Successful Completion of Infusion Test within probationary period with grade of 80% or higher.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office platforms.