Home Care Nurse
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Job Description
About Hackensack Meridian Health
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) positions itself as a healthcare organization where team members are central to its mission of improving patients’ lives. The culture is rooted in connection and collaboration, emphasizing that employees are integral team members. HMH is committed to advancing its mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change within the community.
The company offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package to its full- and part-time benefit-eligible team members, which includes:
• Comprehensive Health Benefits
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Travel Reimbursement
• 401(k) match (also available for eligible Per Diem team members)
• Tuition Reimbursement
HMH fosters an exceptional work environment through innovative wellness programs, robust learning and development opportunities, aiming for employee fulfillment and professional growth.
About the Job: Home Care Nurse
This role is for a Registered Nurse looking for a change, specifically in home healthcare. The job description highlights a return to “the HOME” as a way to rekindle love for nursing, emphasizing focused, one-on-one patient care in a comfortable, less distracting setting. It offers a flexible schedule and the opportunity for valuable and meaningful 1:1 time with patients.
Core Responsibilities:
The Home Care Nurse is responsible for providing professional nursing care to patients in their homes, encompassing assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of home nursing care needs. This is done on an individual and continuous basis, adhering to organizational policies, procedures, and external regulations.
Key Duties Include:
• Ensuring compliance with physician orders regarding care and visit frequency, with documentation reflecting progression towards discharge goals.
• Conducting patient care (assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation) according to policy, procedure, and standard of care, demonstrating holistic care for patients and their significant others.
• Providing safe patient care and demonstrating competency in assigned treatments and procedures.
• Utilizing the interdisciplinary team and accurately documenting all activities.
• Ensuring clinical judgments and critical thinking align with professional standards of care and ethics, leading to safe and effective patient outcomes, with proper documentation of clinical decisions.
• Identifying appropriate payors and maintaining compliance with authorizations for self and other disciplines, utilizing secure messaging for authorizations.
• Completing documentation of assessment, interventions, and planning within organizational timelines, including nursing assessment, medication reconciliation, and collaboration with physicians on the Plan of Care, updating it as patient status changes.
• Implementing specific teaching strategies to meet established goals on the plan of care, ensuring documentation reflects these strategies.
• Reporting patient care problems to management and/or physicians promptly with possible solutions, and appropriately utilizing managers as resources.
• Acting as a liaison among physicians, Manager of Clinical Practice, and other healthcare team members for effective coordination of services and appropriate resource referrals.
• Communicating pertinent patient information and Plan of Care during transfers of patient care loads.
• Completing routine assignments accurately, consistently, and independently, meeting productivity requirements.
• Acting as a clinical supervisor for para-professional home health aide staff, completing supervisory visits within regulatory timeframes and participating in their evaluation.
• Maintaining awareness of new/updated standards and incorporating them into nursing practice, ensuring documentation reflects current practices’ guidelines.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned, demonstrating flexibility.
• Adhering to HMH’s Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
• Physical requirements include lifting, pushing, and pulling a minimum of 50 lbs., and standing a minimum of 8 hours a day.
Required Qualifications:
• Education: Associate’s Degree in Nursing or Diploma Certificate in Nursing.
• Experience: At least six (6) months RN experience OR at least 1 year of LPN experience (preferably in home care or hospice).
• Skills: PC Experience/Skills.
• Licenses & Certifications: NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License, AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Education: BSN.
• Licenses & Certifications: IV Certification.
