RN Home Health Weekend

Responsibilities

• Performs the functions of the home health aide.
• Performs and monitors basic patient care according to policies and procedures.
• Provides a safe and comfortable environment in the patient’s home.
• Ensures privacy and demonstrates concern for the dignity of patient in performing all patient care.
• Completes assignments in a timely manner.
• Assumes on‑call responsibility per policy and procedures.
• Communicates patient care problems or potential problems to the Administrative Staff and/or other interdisciplinary team members to assure continuity and coordination of care.
• Provides care based on physical, psychosocial, communication, safety, education level, and related criteria for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients per the established age‑specific standards.
• States and utilizes admission criteria per agency guidelines.
• Completes OASIS documentation within federal guidelines.
• Completes and documents full system assessment, including assessment of physical and psychosocial aspects and identifies age‑specific criteria upon admission and each visit thereafter.
• Reports significant observed changes in patient condition to Administrative Staff and/or physician.
• Documents patient status and care or services furnished in appropriate areas defined by the documentation policy and procedure.
• Documents home health aide supervisory visits as per standard.
• Performs CPR when directed by patient’s representative’s wishes.
• Displays safe, efficient, and prudent use and maintenance of D.M.E. and medical supplies and adaptive equipment; notifies admin/doctor if safely issues R/T DME in home.
• Demonstrates bag technique per policy and procedure.
• Applies and maintains equipment according to the Policy and Procedure Manual.
• Utilizes supplies effectively and to ensure cost containment.
• Maintains integrity of the IV site while performing patient care.
• Performs treatments/procedures according to specific standards (e.g., vital signs, patient weights, specimen collection, ostomy care, catheterization, wound care, dressing changes, suctioning, gastric tube feeding and maintenance).
• Performs and monitors patient teaching according to the policy and procedures.
• Coordinates care so that medications are administered as ordered by a physician and in compliance with medication administration policies.
• Coordinates the care team to facilitate a change in the level of care in compliance with the change‑in‑level‑of‑care standard.
• Identifies the stages of death and dying.
• Accurately and timely completes plan of treatment and recertification as per Medicare guidelines; completes OASIS SOC/ROC, OASIS Recertification, and Discharge OASIS per guidelines.

• Current Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which services will be provided, or current multi‑state Registered Nurse license through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• Valid driver’s license.
• CPR certification within 30 days of hire date.

• One year of Home Care Nursing and two years of prior nursing experience.

• Frequent walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, and feeling necessary for nursing duties during the shift.
• Must be able to lift, move, and position patients of all weights with varying assistance in a fair manner on a regular and recurring basis.
• Must be able to read and write legibly in English.
• Hearing and visual acuity within normal range, as required for assessment tasks.
• Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects; physical demand requirements exceed those for Light Work.
• Must be able to operate a motor vehicle safely.

• Exposure to bodily fluids, human tissues, contagious diseases, sharps, and explosive gases.
• Exposure to toxic gases, fumes, and odors.
• Exposure to high stress and constant interruptions.
• Exposure to electrical current.
• Exposure to radiation from x‑rays.
• Exposure to bad road conditions.
• Exposure to wind, rain, snow, sleet, mud, high and low temperatures, animals and insects, and…