PRN Registered Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

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

• Coordinates total consumer care by conducting comprehensive health and psychosocial evaluation, monitoring the consumer's condition, promoting sound preventive practices, coordinating services and teaching and training activities
• Evaluates the effectiveness of nursing service to the consumer and family on an ongoing basis
• Performs admission, transfer, re-certification, resumption of care and discharge paperwork for the home care consumer.
• Prepares and presents consumer's record to the Clinical Record Review Committee as indicated
• Consults with the attending physician concerning alterations of Consumer Care Plans, checks with the appropriate supervisor and makes changes, as appropriate
• Coordinates consumer services
• Submits clinical notes no less often than weekly, and progress notes and other clinical record forms outlining the services rendered as indicated
• Submits a tally of consumer care visits made each day
• Participates in case conferences, discusses with the supervisor problems concerning the consumers and how they may best be handled
• Discusses with the appropriate supervisor the need for the involvement of other members of the health team
• Obtains orders for paraprofessional service and submits a referral to the appropriate personnel
• Participates in the consumer’s discharge planning process
• Cooperates with other agencies providing nursing or related services to provide continuity of care and to implement a comprehensive care plan
• Participates in staff development meeting
• Continually strives to improve his / her nursing care skills by attending in-service education, through formal education, attendance at workshops, conferences, active participation in professional and related organizations and individual research and reading
• Participates in the development and periodic revision of the physician's Plan of Treatment and processes change orders as needed
• Submits clinical notes per agency policy, and progress notes and other clinical record forms outlining the services rendered
• Participates in the consumer’s discharge planning process
• Maintains an on-going knowledge of current drug therapy
• Adheres to Federal and state requirements
• May be requested by Nursing Supervisor to fill in for the other nurses

• Conducts an initial and ongoing comprehensive assessment of the consumer’s needs at appropriate time frames
• Obtains a medical history from the consumer and / or a family member particularly as it relates to the present condition
• Conducts a physical examination of the consumer, including vital signs, physical assessment, mental status, appetite and type of diet, etc.
• Evaluates the consumer, family member(s) and home situation to determine what health teaching will be required
• Evaluates the consumer's environment to determine what assistance will be available from family members in caring for the consumer
• Evaluates the consumer's condition and home situation to determine if the services of a Nurse Aide will be required and the frequency of this service
• Explains nursing and other Agency services to consumers and families as a part of planning for care
• Develops and implements the nursing care plan
• May be requested by the Nursing Supervisor to fill in for other nurses who are on vacation or sick.

• Nursing services, treatments and preventative procedures requiring substantial specialized skill and ordered by the physician
• The initiation of preventative and rehabilitative nursing procedures as appropriate for the consumer's care and safety
• Observing signs and symptoms and reporting to the physician reactions to treatments, including drugs, as well as changes in the consumer's physical or emotional condition
• Teaching, supervising and counseling the consumer and caregivers…