Weekend RN: In-Home Care & Care Coordination

Advocate Health; West Allis (WI); On-site; USD 68,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocate Health in West Allis, Wisconsin is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide direct patient care within an interdisciplinary team. You will perform comprehensive physical, psychosocial, and environmental assessments, follow and update care plans, and collaborate with physicians and the RN Case Manager to ensure continuity of care.

The role requires strong clinical skills, excellent communication, the ability to make sound judgments, and the capacity to lift up to 50 lbs as part of patient

Qualifications

• Proficiency in clinical skills with the ability to work under direction and make sound judgments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to develop rapport and maintain positive, professional relationships with a variety of patients, staff and physicians.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively make critical, independent decisions.
• Good organization, prioritization and problem solving skills.
• Ability to multi-task with frequent interruptions.

Responsibilities

• Performs all scheduled visits and collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team as necessary.
• Conducts thorough physical, psychosocial and environmental assessments of assigned patients and updates plan of care where appropriate and as a result of visit finding.
• Communicates with physicians to confirm and update patient's plan of treatment that may be necessary as a result of assigned visits. Communicates those changes to the RN Case Manager.
• Provides on-going assessment of patient response to treatments, medications and teaching and applies interventions as appropriate.
• Partners with the RN Case Manager to provide discharge planning according to agency standards and utilizes interagency/system and community resources to assure continuity of care after discharge.
• Accurately documents and updates patient records according to agency, state and federal guidelines.
• Communicates problems to physicians and RN Case Manager, and clearly states plans, actions and goals so that changes are reflected as they occur.
• Follows published policies and procedures and regularly monitors changes or additions to them.
• Performs various patient positioning and transporting duties, which require lifting and pushing/pulling, while utilizing proper technique.

Skills

Clinical nursing skills

Communication skills

Patient care planning

Team collaboration

Critical thinking

Education

RN licensure

Nursing program completion

Tools

BLS certification

Job description

Advocate Health in West Allis, Wisconsin is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide direct patient care within an interdisciplinary team. You will perform comprehensive physical, psychosocial, and environmental assessments, follow and update care plans, and collaborate with physicians and the RN Case Manager to ensure continuity of care.

The role requires strong clinical skills, excellent communication, the ability to make sound judgments, and the capacity to lift up to 50 lbs as part of patient