Registered Nurse

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:

• 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