Home Infusion RN - Per Diem - Coventry

Option Care Home Health LLC; Coventry (CT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Option Care Health, Inc. is the nation’s largest home infusion provider, delivering intermediate nursing care in the home or infusion suites under physician plans of care.

An Infusion Nurse II coordinates and provides direct patient care with supervision to ensure patient safety and continuity. Responsibilities include developing and implementing nursing plans, assessing patients, mentoring colleagues, educating patients and families, and ensuring timely clinical documentation and billing.

Qualifications

• Licensed registered nurse providing intermediate direct patient care.
• Ability to educate patients and families/caregivers.
• Coordinate and document care under physician plans of care.

Responsibilities

• Initiates, develops, and implements intermediate nursing plan of care treatments.
• Assesses patient needs and status at each visit and updates plans accordingly.
• Provides training and mentorship to less experienced nurses as needed.
• Delivers patient-centered teaching to enable independence with prescribed therapy.
• Communicates with clinical team, physicians, patients, and families to ensure continuity of care.
• Completes documentation in real-time and adheres to billing timelines.
• Coordinates discharge planning and prepares discharge summaries.

Skills

Nursing care

Patient education

Clinical documentation

Care plan implementation

Education

Registered Nurse (RN) license

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

An Infusion Nurse II is a licensed registered nurse who coordinates and provides intermediate 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 structured supervision of the designated supervisor.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Initiates, develops, and implements intermediate nursing plan of care 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 training and mentorship to Infusion Nurse I's as needed to ensure patient safety and compliance.
• 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.
• 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 to the nursing department to comply with established timelines 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