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Position Summary

The Hospital at Home Registered Nurse works in the Hospital at Home program and is responsible for delivering high-quality patient care across diverse populations. They employ their monitoring, assessment, planning, and critical thinking skills to provide acute care within this framework. This role involves conducting virtual patient care visits as directed by the care team and protocol.

Position Summary

The Hospital at Home Registered Nurse works in the Hospital at Home program and is responsible for delivering high-quality patient care across diverse populations. They employ their monitoring, assessment, planning, and critical thinking skills to provide acute care within this framework. This role involves conducting virtual patient care visits as directed by the care team and protocol.

The RN utilizes their nursing knowledge to solve complex patient problems and collaborates with the Medically Home team and service providers to ensure evidence-based care with clinical protocols. Delegating patient care activities is part of their responsibility, with a focus on maintaining patient safety and adherence to institutional standards and documentation guidelines.

They establish therapeutic relationships with patients and caregivers, guiding them through the Hospital at Home care phases. This role acts as a professional nursing practice role model, promoting a culture of safety and participating in quality and safety investigations. Compliance with state and hospital regulations, along with participation in quality improvement and chart review audits, are also essential aspects of this role.

Position: Registered Nurse

Department: Hospital at Home

Schedule: 24 Hours (Nights / Every Other Weekend)

Essential Responsibilities / Duties

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing high-quality patient care to various patient populations within the framework of Hospital at Home and includes the following key elements:
• Utilizes monitoring, assessment, planning, intervention, and critical thinking skills to care for acute care patients in the Hospital at Home program
• Conducts virtual patient care visits for diverse patient populations as directed by the care team and protocol
• Utilizes nursing knowledge to identify, solve, and prevent complex patient problems
• Leverages the resources and expertise of the Medically Home team and service provider network to implement collaborative workflows, policies, protocols, and guidelines that support safe, reliable, high-quality, evidence-based care with clinical protocols as the foundation
• Delegates activities or tasks related to patient care while retaining accountability for the outcome and responsibility for the delivery of nursing care Monitors and responds to biometric data per health system protocols
• Promotes adherence to institutional standards and documentation guidelines
• Ensures all interventions in the patient’s care plan are implemented efficiently and with a patient-centered approach.
• Takes appropriate action to ensure patient safety
• Establishes therapeutic relationships with patients and caregivers. Guides patients and caregivers across the continuum of the Hospital at Home phases of care
• Serves as a role model for professional nursing practice
• Promotes a culture of safety, participates in quality and safety investigations, root cause analyses, and other process improvement efforts
• Ensures compliance with reporting requirements for Sentinel Events and Serious Incidents
• Actively facilitates new patient admissions to Hospital at Home; assumes additional patient intake responsibilities as directed by program leadership; implements Medically Home guidelines throughout…