RN (Registered Nurse) for Home Care
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
Job Summary: Serves as a supervisor to all field staff to assure agency policies and federal and state regulations; serves as liaison among the agency field staff, patients, hospitals, the medical community and general community.
Duties and Responsibilities:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES ARE:
- Appropriately evaluates the patient, initially and periodically throughout care;
- Develops and implements appropriate treatment programs to address problems identified; develops realistic personal goals with patient; re-evaluates, sets new goals and adjusts care accordingly in consultation with physician or intermediate care provider.
- Advises, consults and instructs on treatment or procedures, and supportive activities to patients, family members and other home health team members.
- Observes, records and reports to physician and/or supervisor, patient’s reaction to treatment, patient’s progress and any changes in patient’s condition.
- Assists patient and family with community resources needed to adjust to physical, mental and social limitations.
- Coordinates other service team members, both in formal and informal care conferences, to assure sufficient flow of information to support care of patient.
- Informs patient, family and physician verbally and in writing as needed regarding plan of care, progress, or changes and pending discharge.
- Provides accurate and timely documentation of care in accordance with agency policy and pay source requirements.
- Meets regulatory agency and/or pay source requirements regarding patient care.
- Effectively manages a caseload as established by agency.
- Participates, as requested, in orientation of new staff, in-service education, continuing education, utilization review and QI/QA programs.
- Uses agency approved software to enter evaluations and visit documentation.
OTHER DUTIES: Other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This position supervises LPN and CNA direct care staff according to agency policies.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
- Licensed in Colorado as a Registered Nurse without stipulations.
- Experience of a minimum of one (1) year as an RN, prefer home health experience.
ABILITIES, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, professional journals, and legal documents.
- Ability to read and interpret physicians’ orders and notes from other caregivers as well as respond to them verbally and in writing.
- Ability to effectively present information to patients and employees and community.
- Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to improvise in a home setting.
- Ability to send/receive emails and use the internet for research and informational purposes.
- Ability to use computer for communication and documentation purposes.
- Ability to use independent judgment to manage and impart confidential information.
- Skill to attend to multiple tasks at once which are time sensitive.
- Thorough knowledge of home health care practice, communication skills, and case management.
- Basic knowledge of Windows operating system and ability to advance computer skills as required.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, the public, and supervisors.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Active Colorado RN license,
- Current CPR certification;
- Current TB screening upon hire and annually thereafter;
- Possession of a valid Colorado Driver's License with reliable transportation and applicable car insurance.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to regularly sit, stand, stoop, bend, kneel, walk, balance, crouch, crawl, push, pull, reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.
- Ability to frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
- Ability to occasionally climb
- Ability to occasionally use sense of smell.
- Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 100 pounds.
- Ability to perform the anticipated level of physical assist required to provide safe patient care. If the anticipated level of assist is greater than that which the employee can safely provide, the supervisor is to be notified immediately.
- Ability to use close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception.
- Ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- The employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.
- The work environment is highly variable, as care is provided in private homes.
- Lighting, acoustics, air quality, temperature and environmental hazards are not predictable.
- The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, household pets/animals, fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
- The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate.
TRAVEL:
The employee is required to travel frequently to complete home health visits.
