Home Infusion Nurse - Per Diem - Dunmore

Optioncare; Dunmore (Lackawanna County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Option Care Health seeks a Senior Infusion Nurse to provide expert infusion care in home or alternate infusion suites under a physician's plan of care. The role involves direct patient care with minimal supervision, ensuring patient safety and continuity of care.

Responsibilities include advanced treatment planning, patient education, and collaboration with the clinical team to optimize outcomes while maintaining compliance with policies and HIPAA regulations.

Qualifications

• Licensed registered nurse with infusion nursing expertise.
• Ability to educate patients and families on treatment plans.
• Experience documenting patient care and coordinating with physicians.

Responsibilities

• Initiates and manages advanced infusion care plans and treatments.
• Evaluates patient progress and adjusts care as needed.
• Educates patients and families and trains lower-level staff.
• Performs timely and accurate clinical documentation for billing and care continuity.
• Coordinates discharge planning and provides patient instructions.

Skills

Infusion nursing

Patient education

Clinical documentation

Care coordination

Education

RN license

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

Extraordinary Careers. Endless Possibilities.

With the nation's largest home infusion provider, there is no limit to the growth of your career.

Option Care Health, Inc. is the largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider in the United States. With over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians, we work compassionately to elevate standards of care for patients with acute and chronic conditions in all 50 states. Through our clinical leadership, expertise and national scale, Option Care Health is re-imagining the infusion care experience for patients, customers and team members.

Join a company that is taking action to develop an inclusive, respectful, engaging and rewarding culture for all team members. At Option Care Health your voice is heard, your work is valued, and you're empowered to grow. Cultivating a team with a variety of talents, backgrounds and perspectives makes us stronger, innovative, and more impactful. Our organization requires extraordinary people to provide extraordinary care, so we are investing in a culture that attracts, hires and retains the best and brightest talent in healthcare.

Job Description Summary:

A Senior Infusion Nurse is a licensed registered nurse, considered to be an expert with infusion nursing care, who develops, coordinates, and provides direct patient care to patients in the home, or in an alternate infusion suite, to ensure patient safety with continuity and compliance under a physician's plan of care. Works under very little, or no supervision of the designated supervisor. Job Description:

Job Responsibilities (listed in order of importance and/or time spent)

• Initiates, develops and implements advanced and complex nursing plan of treatments; evaluating patient progress towards goals. Organizes and participates in the provision of direct patient care, performs treatments, administers medications, and educates patients and families/caregivers. Modifies plan of treatment in response to changing patient status or physician orders to achieve established or revised patient care goals.
• Assesses patient needs and physical status at each skilled visit through health data access and patient interview. Re-evaluates patient needs through physical reassessment, response to therapy, and supplemental physician orders. Obtains and clarifies physician orders for plan of treatment revisions, informs physician promptly of significant changes in patient's condition, and provides written summary to physician within supplemental order.
• Provides effective and safe teaching using patient-centered care approach for patient and family to achieve independence with prescribed therapy and care needs through active participation per plan of treatment goals.
• Provide training & mentorship to lower-level nurses.
• Actively participates in facility process improvement program and assists Supervisor or Nurse Manager with chart audit functions as applicable.
• Researches and recommends changes in care delivery to align with nursing best practices.
• Effectively and timely communicates with Option Care's Clinical team, medical providers, patients, and families/caregivers to facilitate continuity of care. Prepares clinical documentation in real-time during visits and submits it to the nursing department to comply with established time lines for billing optimization. Completes all documentation legibly and applies approved abbreviations and documentation error correction practices per Option Care's policy.
• Coordinates discharge planning and prepares discharge summaries with patient instructions and thoroughly reports patient care needs, progress and goals when transferring care.
• Demonstrates compliance with agency operations, Option Care's policies and procedures, professional standards, local, state, federal regulations/guidelines, and accreditation standards.
• Maximizes work efficiency through the use of computers and other automation technologies to validate plan of treatment orders, communicates patient care provided, and follows assigned visit schedule.
• Responds promptly and appropriately to patient requests. Initiates emergency procedures as necessary.
• Accepts accountability for own practice through ethical and professional conduct. Follows established programs and practice within policies and procedures reflective of Option Care's mission, values, and objectives.
• Observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Option Care information including adherence to HIPAA regulations.
• Speaks knowledgeably about Option Care's scope of services and effectively instructs patients about related financial obligations for care and service charges.
• Attends and completes required training modules, in-services, and continuing education to maintain competency and professional licensure for demonstrated knowledge regarding the care and management of patients in the home and/or alternate care settings. Effectively provides oversight and coo