Registered Nurse, Home Health Nurse OASIS - Fort Worth, TX

Registered Nurse, Home Health Nurse OASIS - Fort Worth, TX at Optum summary:
The Registered Nurse in Home Health provides skilled nursing care and assessments to patients in their homes within the Fort Worth area, ensuring the implementation and evaluation of individualized care plans. The role includes coordination with physicians, clinical teams, and caregivers, performing nursing interventions such as medication administration, wound care, and health teaching, while also managing documentation and patient outcomes using OASIS data.

This position requires travel, on-call duties, and offers benefits including tuition reimbursement, mileage reimbursement, and professional development opportunities.
$5,000 Sign On Bonus for External Candidates
This position is full-time with excellent hourly compensation, benefits within 30 days that include PTO, scrubs provided, annual reviews, tuition reimbursement, mileage reimbursement along with opportunities for continued career progression! All clinical licensures and required CEU costs are covered.
You will be traveling to patient homes in the Fort Worth area. Business hours are Monday - Friday 8am to 6pm and there is additional on-call during the week and weekends required on a rotating schedule. You will receive additional overtime and differential pay.
Well Med, part of the Optum family of businesses, is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team in Fort Worth, TX. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.
As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you'll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone.
At Optum, you'll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. We believe you deserve an exceptional career and will empower you to live your best life at work and erience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country.

Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Position Highlights &

Primary Responsibilities:

• Performs nursing assessments and develops, implements and evaluates plans of care in conjunction with the physician, patient and caregivers per agency policy and procedure

• Evaluates the effectiveness of the plan of care, the patient's response to care and outcomes of care and revises the plan of care as needed

• Re-evaluates patient nursing needs to include on-going assessments using the OASIS data set at appropriate time points

• Provides skilled nursing services that require substantial and specialized nursing care including medication administration, wound care, therapeutic treatments, and skilled teaching as ordered and indicated Plans and implements patient health teaching and health counseling regarding the

• disease process(es), self-care techniques and prevention and involves the patient's significant others in accomplishing health goals while promoting patient/family independence

• Participates in health promotion and disease prevention activities

• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures following the physician's plan of care

• Coordinates services and scheduling with the Clinical Team Manager (CTM) and Clinical Team Coordinator (CTC) to include recommendations for additional home health care services for patients to within 24 hours of Start of Care (SOC)

• Assesses the patient's condition during every home health care visit; insures assessments are communicated to the Clinical Team Manager on a daily basis; nursing interventions are implemented to meet patient needs and changed conditions

• Performs care management duties on patients as assigned including: notifying the physician of changes in the patient's condition or progress toward goals, obtaining needed physicians orders, reassessing the patient for recertification, supervision of LVNs and home health aides,…