RN - Homecare

MedCadre; Ogden (UT); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MedCadre is seeking an RN to provide home-based hospice/home health care to adults and children, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care in the patient’s home.

Responsibilities include autonomous home visits, coordination with the health team, and ensuring compliance with standards and documentation. Strong clinical skills, communication, and ability to work in diverse home environments are essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to commute to the office at least twice daily to electronically transfer patient files.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care in home hospice/home health setting.
• Follow nursing process and adhere to policies and regulatory standards.
• Coordinate care with interdisciplinary team and educate patients/families.

Skills

Nursing process

Assessment

Critical thinking

Plan of care

Coordination of care

Education

ASN or Nursing diploma

BSN preferred

Tools

Basic computer skills

Job description

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse (RN) with Homecare is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of Hospice/Home Health adult and pediatric patients and their families in their home setting.

Job Responsibilities

• The RN provides the best clinical practice in an environment of caring and healing while working autonomously in the home.
• Utilizing the nursing process, care is delivered in compliance with hospice/home health policies and procedures, legal and regulatory standards.
• The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.
• Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative and developmental skills as appropriate).
• Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.

Plan

• Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
• Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education.
• Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up).

Implement

• Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination and collaboration as appropriate.
• Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions.
• Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.

Evaluate

• Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient and family satisfaction.
• Revises plan of care as indicated, and reassesses changes as appropriate.

Professionalism

• Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others.
• Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice: complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

Transfer of Patient Files

• Electronically transfers patient files to the office at least twice daily.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Required Skills & Experience

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to transfer patients independently.
• Ability to commute to the office at least twice daily to electronically transfer patient files or have other access to the Internet for electronically transferring patient files twice a day.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Two years working as an RN.
• Previous experience in an Acute Care, Home Health or Hospice setting.

Required Skills ['NURSING PROCESS', 'ASSESSMENT', 'CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS', 'INDIVIDUALIZED PLAN OF CARE', 'COORDINATION OF CARE']

Additional Skills ['DELEGATION', 'BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS', 'VERBAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS', 'PATIENT CARE DELIVERY', 'EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE', 'THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION', 'TECHNOLOGY', 'DOCUMENTATION', 'PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN AN ACUTE CARE, HOME HEALTH OR HOSPICE SETTING']

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, and driving a vehicle.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of furniture, equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).
• Need to ascend and descend stairs or uneven surface in order to access patients.
• Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Education Requirement

Required Education

ASN or Nursing diploma.

Preferred Education

Bachelor’s degree in nursing ("BSN") from an accredited institution.

Required Certifications & Licensure

• Current RN License in state of practice. License is verified.
• Current BLS Certification for healthcare providers.
• Current driver’s license, insured and reliable transportation and an acceptable driving record.

Preferred Certifications & Licensure

-N/A

Languages

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Minimum Degree Required

Associate's Degree (Community College, MBO) Reason: FMLA/LOA