Travel Home Health RN

Patterns Hiring is seeking a travel nurse RN Home Health for a travel nursing job in St Albans, Vermont
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• Specialty:
  Home Health
• Discipline:
  RN
• Duration:
  13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type:
  
  Travel

Hopsice coverage required when on‑call.

• Effectively fill out and complete OASIS documentation in accordance with Agency policies and procedures, State and Federal regulations, and keep up to date on changes.
• Utilize the nursing process to assess patient/caregiver needs and provide quality care in accordance with evidence‑based practice, State and Federal regulations, Vermont State Board of Nursing, and VNAHSR policies.
• Develop and communicate a realistic plan of care for each patient, ensuring patient/caregiver involvement.
• Serve as Case Manager for assigned patients, actively managing case loads and visit times in accordance with agency productivity standards.
• Implement medical plan of care, nursing interventions, and procedures to ensure safe effective quality of care.
• Stay up to date on high‑tech skills; IV use and maintenance, wound VAC, complex wound care, infection control standards.
• Collaborate with LPNs to ensure plan of care is followed, delegate tasks, review documentation, annotate visit notes and act on recommendations.
• Evaluate aspects of implemented plan of care, addressing problems, patient responses, and overall quality.
• Maintain accurate nursing documentation for integration with health care team.
• Follow agency protocol with McKesson processes: locking‑down visits, follow‑up notes, visit completion.
• Educate patients and caregivers on medication side effects, treatment options, discharge instructions, reportable conditions, and services.
• Identify inter‑disciplinary needs and communicate documentation to covered disciplines.
• Accurately fill all Agency, State and Federal forms (HHABN, Medicare Notice of Non‑Coverage) promptly.
• Carry out visits efficiently, ensuring supervisory visits not combined with routine visits when necessary.
• Assess patients’ needs for HCA services, coordinate PIC, and provide ongoing supervision.
• Transmit incident reports (infections, injuries) to QI Specialist promptly.
• Coordinate safe patient discharges and/or transfers, ensuring necessary paperwork and information processed.
• Coordinate patient care with physicians, providers, team members, vendors in support of plan of care.
• Participate in monthly peer review audits, give constructive feedback and accept feedback professionally.
• Schedule, coordinate, and facilitate case conferences with Manager and team members.
• Advocate for patient care issues to ensure overall quality is sensitive to each patient/family’s needs.

• 2 years of Home Health experience required.
• AHA BLS required.

Patterns Hiring Job
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Pay package is based on 8‑hour shifts and 40 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with a tax‑free stipend amount to be determined.

• Referral bonus