Infusion Nurse Educator - Portland

Option Care Enterprises; Portland (OR); Sur place; USD 85 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Option Care Health is seeking an Infusion Nurse Educator to educate and train patients, caregivers, and facility staff on OCH services and products within home or alternate infusion settings. The role includes executing patient assessments and coordinating with the sales team for smooth transitions under a physician's plan of care.

The Educator will provide in-home and unit-based education, document education activities, and ensure patient safety and continuity of care across the care delivery

Responsabilités

• Initiates, develops, and implements intermediate nursing care plans and treatments, evaluating progress and adapting the plan as needed.
• Assesses patient needs and status during skilled visits, updating plans and communicating changes to physicians.
• Provides training and mentorship to Infusion Nurse I's to ensure patient safety and compliance.
• Communicates with the Clinical team, providers, patients, and families to facilitate continuity of care and timely documentation for billing.
• Coordinates discharge planning and prepares discharge instructions and summaries for home care transitions.
• Ensures compliance with agency operations, policies, procedures, standards, and regulatory guidelines.
• Maximizes efficiency through use of computers and automation technologies.

Description du poste

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:

Infusion Nurse Educator is a licensed Registered Nurse responsible for providing clinical education and training to ensure successful transition of patients to an Option Care Health care delivery model. This role is also responsible for providing 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 physicians plan of care.

The Infusion Nurse Educator will also be responsible for partnering with the sales team to safely and effectively transition patients to on to OCH services.

Job Description:

• Evaluate, educate, and train patients, caregivers, and facility staff about how OCH services & products will be facilitated in an alternative site, in-home, or virtually in order to ensure successful transition of patients to an Option Care Health delivery model.
• Conduct patient assessments and evaluations to determine patient viability to join the OCH care delivery model.
• Partner with, and coordinate with the OCH sales team to understand clinical transition educational needs, and to develop improvements aimed at increasing patient transition volume.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information and observes legal guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Option Care information.
• Provides proper documentation of education utilizing OCH applications and technology.
• Coordinates the transition of patients from hospital to home or alternate care settings by collaborating with facility staff, providers, and internal teams to ensure timely discharge, therapy education, and continuity of care.
• Provides in-person patient and caregiver education, gathers pre-admission and insurance information, and facilitates the initiation of services to support safe and effective care at home.

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

• 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.
• 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 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