Registered Nurse

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DUTIES

To provide nursing care in accordance with the client’s plan of care to include comprehensive health and evaluation, monitoring of the client’s condition, health promotion and prevention coordination of services, teaching and training activities and direct nursing care.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Coordinate total patient care by conducting comprehensive health and psycho-social evaluation, monitoring the client’s condition, promoting sound preventive practices, coordinating services and teaching and training activities
2. Takes the interdisciplinary approach in providing quality care for the patient
3. Includes patient and family/Caregivers in developing the Plan of Care
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing service on an ongoing basis
5. Performs admission, transfer, re-certification, resumption of care and discharge OASIS for the home care patient
6. Consults with the physician concerning alterations of Patient Care Plans, checks with the appropriate supervisor and makes changes, as appropriate
7. Coordinates patient services
8. Participates in case conferences, discusses with the supervisor problems concerning the patients and how they may best be handled
9. Discusses with the appropriate supervisor the need for the involvement of other members of the health team such as the Home Health Aide, the Physical Therapist, the Speech Therapist, the Occupational Therapist, the Medical Social Worker, etc.
10. Participates in the patient’s discharge planning process
11. Continually strives to improve his/her nursing care skills by attending in-service education, through formal education, attendance at workshops, conferences, active participation in professional and related organizations and individual research and reading
12. Adheres to Federal, state and accreditation requirements including Medicare and Medicaid regulations
13. May be requested by Director of Nursing to fill in for the other nurses