Home Health RN - PT/FT

Home Health Registered Nurse (RN) - Part Time/Full Time

Summary

To provide nursing care in accordance with the patient’s plan of care to include comprehensive health and psychosocial evaluation, monitoring or the patient’s condition, health promotion and prevention coordination of services, teaching, and training activities and direct nursing care.

Responsibilities Include:

• Coordinate total patient care by conducting comprehensive health and psychosocial evaluation, monitoring the patient’s condition, promoting sound preventive practices, coordinating services and teaching and training activities.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing service to the patient and family on an ongoing basis.
• Perform admission, transfer, re-certification, resumption of care and discharge OASIS for the home care patient.
• Consult with the attending physician concerning alterations of Patient Care Plans, check with the appropriate supervisor and makes changes as appropriate.
• Coordinate patient services.
• Participate in case conferences and discuss with the Clinical Director problems concerning the patients and how they may best be handled
• Discuss with the Clinical Director the need for involvement of other disciplinary members of the health care team.
• Obtains orders for paraprofessional services and submits referrals to the appropriate personnel.
• Participate in the patient’s discharge planning process.
• Participate in case conferences.