Registered Nurse
- Employer
- HealthCare Talent
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
- Closing date
- Jul 27, 2021
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- Profession
- Nurse
- Specialty
- Medical Management
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Job Description
Job Summary
The Registered Nurse provides skilled nursing care and all applicable regulations to participants and performs related administrative tasks. Physical attendance at a facility and/or participant's home is essential to performing the job duties.
Responsibilities:
Requirements
Job Summary
The Registered Nurse provides skilled nursing care and all applicable regulations to participants and performs related administrative tasks. Physical attendance at a facility and/or participant's home is essential to performing the job duties.
Responsibilities:
- Triages participant and staff phone calls to s to determine the priority of care and routes accordingly.
- Schedules outside appointments for participants when necessary.
- Assists in the examination, testing, and treatment of participants.
- Completes certification/recertification orders and discharge summaries
- Implements orders written by primary care physician(s).
- Instructs participants and family regarding medications and treatment instructions.
- Schedules specialist and other appointments for participants and assists in hospital admissions.
- Performs general nursing care on participants including administering prescribed medications and treatments.
- Documents all necessary information and maintains participant medical record(s) and fulfills agency charting and reporting requirements.
- Administers medications, provides training in self-administration of all non-scheduled medications, and monitors medication compliance.
- Provides health counseling to participants and their families on an individual or group basis.
- Assists in the examination, assessment, evaluation testing, and treatment of participants.
- Observes, records, and reports participant's condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to physicians
- Perform nursing care to clients in their place of residence.
- Assess and re-assess participants to determine individual needs and to ensure the least restrictive environment.
- Assesses participants to determine the change in condition that necessitates a change in the level of care and coordinates the plan of care with Home Care resources.
- Furnishes those services requiring substantial specialized nursing skills.
- Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
- Prepares clinical and progress notes for each client visit and summaries of care conferences for clients promptly as per Agency policy.
- Conducts client care conferences on clients assigned to his/her care.
- Participates in peer review and quality management as assigned.
- Participates in utilization review of medical records as assigned.
- Processes orders and notifies physicians of client needs and changes in condition. Completes certification/recertification orders and discharge summaries.
- Determines the amount and type of nursing needed by each client.
- Ensure that quality care is delivered by the home care team to site participants via periodic participant/caregiver inquiry, intermittent review of the care plan, and trending of data from various reports/supervisory visits in collaboration with the Home Care Manager.
- Refers to Physical Therapist, Speech-Language Pathologist, Occupational Therapist, and Medical Social Worker for those clients requiring their specialized skills.
- Supervises the LPN every 30-days and supervises the HHA/CNA every 14-days (or per regulatory requirements) and teaches other nursing personnel.
- Additional work functions and duties may be assigned
Requirements
- Travel may be required
- Overnight travel may include local or out of state
- Valid and Current RN License
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