RN Home Care Infusion Per Diem

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change. At Hackensack Meridian Health at Home, we recognize our full- and part-time benefit eligible team members by offering a Total Rewards package including comprehensive Health Benefits, generous Paid Time Off, Travel Reimbursement as well as an investment in your future with a 401(k) match and Tuition Reimbursement.

Per Diem team members are eligible to participate in Travel Reimbursement and may be eligible to receive a 401(k) match. From  you’ll find information, resources and tools to be successful at HMH, including benefits, wellness programs and development opportunities.

Are you a nurse looking for a change? Do you feel overwhelmed and spread too thin in your current job? A return to the HOME could make you fall in love with nursing all over again. Focus on one patient at a time with Hackensack Meridian Health  nurses spend meaningful 1:1 time with patients in their homes, where they feel most comfortable.

Do what you do best, with a flexible schedule in a setting with fewer distractions.

• The Home Care Infusion RN is responsible for providing professional nursing care to patients in their home through assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of home nursing care needs on an individual and continuous basis of assigned patients in accordance with organization policies and procedures and external regulations. Demonstrate competency with infusion therapy.
• Assure compliance with physician orders in a timely manner and that visit frequency follows physician orders. Ensure documentation reflects compliance with orders and progress toward goals at discharge.
• Ensure that assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation of patient care follow policy, procedure and standard of care. Demonstrate ability to care for a patient and significant other in a holistic manner. Provide safe patient care. Demonstrate knowledge and competency in completion of assigned treatments and procedures according to standards and policies. Utilize an interdisciplinary team and accurately document all activities.
• Ensure clinical judgments and critical thinking reflect professional standards of care and ethical codes to provide safe and effective patient outcomes. Document clinical decisions in the EMR system.
• Identify appropriate payors and remain in compliance with authorizations for self and other disciplines as necessary. Meet payor source guidelines. Maintain visit frequency within authorization ranges. Use secure messaging to insurance nurses for all authorizations.
• Document assessment, interventions and planning to meet organization timelines. Complete nursing assessment, medication reconciliation and collaborate with physicians on Plan of Care. Update care plan within two weeks of changes in patient status.
• Implement teaching strategies to meet goals on the plan of care. Document teaching strategies in the medical chart consistent with goals and plans.
• Report patient care problems to manager or appropriate nursing leadership in a timely manner with possible solutions. Document case communication. Utilize a manager as a resource.
• Act as liaison among physicians, Manager of Clinical Practice and other health care team members to ensure effective coordination and appropriate resource referrals. Ensure coordination of services meets client needs.
• Communicate pertinent patient information and Plan of Care during transfers of patient care loads, including daily basis or when time off is scheduled.
• Complete routine assignments accurately, consistently and independently in a timely manner without supervision. Meet productivity requirements consistently.
• Maintain awareness of new/updated…