RN Home Health - Part-time

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities:

Patient Care:

• Completes an initial assessment of patient and family to determine home care needs.  Provides a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness (es).
• Regularly re-evaluates patient nursing needs.
• Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.
• Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a care plan which establishes goals, based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative nursing actions.  Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.  Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician.
• Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing needs.
• Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan.
• Identifies discharge planning needs as part of the care planning development upon admission.

Communication:

• Prepares clinical notes and updates the primary physician at least every sixty days and/or as needed.
• Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports and changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physicians orders as required.
• Communicates with community health related persons to coordinate the care plan.

Additional Duties:

• Participates in on-call duties as defined by the on-call policy.
• Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.
• Instructs, supervises and evaluates home health aide care provided every fourteen days.