Job Description:
As a Registered Nurse, you will visit patients’ homes each day and provide them with a full range of clinical care, which may include such items as instruction on chronic disease management and medication, pain management, wound care, IV infusion, and post- operative instruction. Part of your job is to work with patients and provide the tools they need to ensure their own recovery. Seeing the end results of their recovery is just one of the many rewards of your position.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Providing case management as described in SOP for all cases involving nursing and therapy services
Making the initial evaluation visit as applicable and re-evaluating each patient’s nursing needs on a regular basis
Providing nursing services, treatments and diagnostic procedures requiring specialized skills and assuming full responsibility for each of your patients
Participating in in-service programs, as well as training, and teaching other nursing personnel
Developing and implementing the treatment plan for each patient under the direction of their physician
Observing and reporting symptoms, reaction to treatments, drugs, and changes in the patient’s physical or emotional condition
Evaluates and revises the plan of care, as necessary.
Provides those services requiring substantial specialized nursing skill based on the physician’s orders and the nursing diagnosis. Examples of such services include, but are not limited to, physical assessment, patient and family teaching, urinary catheter insertion and care, venipuncture and administration of IV fluids or medications, dressing changes, sterile and non-sterile etc.
Acts as the coordinator of the health care team in order to maintain the proper linkages with a continuum of care.
Provides reports to the patient’s physician about patient under care when the patient’s condition changes or there are deviations from the plan of care.
Initiating preventative and rehabilitative nursing procedures as appropriate