RN Registered Nurse Home Care

Location: Bronx, NY

About Us

With over 50 years of dedicated service to our communities, Personal Touch has been a trusted provider of home care and is a leading national home care agency. Our priority lies in ensuring exemplary patient care while fostering a supportive and empowering workplace culture for all team members. We are currently seeking compassionate and skilled professionals to join our team and continue our legacy of providing personalized and attentive care to patients in the comfort of their own home.

Why Choose Us

At Personal-Touch Home Care, we are committed to creating a rewarding and fulfilling experience for our team members. Our established history and reputation provide a stable and trusted foundation for your career. Join us in positively impacting the lives of our patients and their families.

Benefits

• Employee Recognition Programs: We acknowledge and celebrate your contributions.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Accident, and Long-Term Disability Coverage.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Supports a healthy work-life balance.
• Retirement Benefits: 401k plan to secure your financial future.
• Company-paid life insurance for peace of mind and financial protection.
• Opportunities for Professional Growth and Development.
• Employee Assistance Program: Supporting the well-being of you and your family.
• Perks Program: Exclusive deals and offers on products, services, and experiences.

About the Role

The Registered Nurse plans, organizes, and directs home care services and is experienced in pediatric nursing from birth through late teens, with emphasis on community health education/experience.

Responsibilities

• Completes comprehensive assessments of patient and family to determine home care needs at regular established timelines.
• 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.
• Develops the plan of care with the patient’s physician; establishes goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative nursing actions. Includes the patient and 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/family as appropriate per assessment and plan.
• Identifies discharge planning needs as part of the plan of care development and implements prior to discharge of the patient.
• Knowledge of high-tech nursing skills including but not limited to: indwelling/straight catheter insertion/removal, nephrostomy care, ostomy care, plural and abdominal catheter drainage care, infusion services, g-tubes, and negative pressure wound therapy.
• Working knowledge of all infection control procedures and safety precautions.
• Knowledge of the nurse's scope of practice and ability to apply professional theory, practice, and procedure showing appropriate application of the nursing process.
• Observe ethical and legal guidelines for safeguarding confidentiality of patients.
• Assess patient needs and physical status each skilled visit through health data assessment and patient interview. Re-evaluate patient needs through physical assessment, response to therapy, and any updated physician’s orders.
• Inform physician of any changes in patient condition, response to care, progress, etc.
• Obtain and clarify orders for Plan of Treatment revisions.
• Prepares clinical notes and updates the primary physician when necessary and at least every sixty days. Completes and submits all documentation in accordance with policy and procedures.
• Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physician’s orders as required.
• Communicates with other health-related persons to coordinate the care plan.
• Participates in on-call duties as defined by the on-call policy.
• Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary supplies and services are available.
• Instructs, supervises, and evaluates home health aide/personal care aide care provided every 14 days or as stipulated by law and regulation.
• Instructs, supervises, and evaluates LPN/LVN care provided at least every 30 days.
• Exercises professional management and coordinates care between and among involved parties in home, community providers, and pediatric tertiary specialists.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited college/university.
• Current active and unrestricted nursing license in New York.
• Pediatric care experience in the acute and/or home care environment.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Current certification in Basic Life Support for Health Care Professionals.
• Minimum of 1 year of recent acute or home care experience, preferably in an institutional setting.
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, basic math skills, nursing skills per competency checklist.
• Basic knowledge of computer operating systems and software applications to communicate and document care.

Pay

• $50 per visit - $125 per visit.
• Start of Care (SOC) - $100.00 per visit with an extra $25 bonus if notes are completed within 24 hours.
• Follow-up/Revisit - $50.00 per visit with an extra $25 bonus if notes are completed within 24 hours.

Job Type: Fee-for-Service, Paid per Visit