Location: Wilkes Barre,PA, USA
Requisition #:199189
Location:Wilkes-Barre, PA 18703
Category:Nursing
Salary:$35.00 - $41.00 per hour
Position Details
Position Overview
The Registered Nurse Home Health is responsible for providing and documenting skilled nursing care in accordance with the developed care plan and physicians' orders for each individual patient while adhering to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries at all times.
Coverage area: Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming, Wayne, Monroe
Schedule: PRN weekend visits needed every other weekend or every weekend
Essential Job Functions:
* Develop a plan of care through physician orders, client input, and nursing assessment to include medical interventions and measurable goals and outcomes.
* Educate clients and their family members based on client's specific needs.
* Properly orient and train primary caregivers to ensure the most optimal functioning level for each client.
* Coordinate the continuum of hands on client care through documentation and timely communication with the client's physician and other caregivers.
* Provide care in patients home using a variety of skills such as phone triage, patient education, observation/assessment, wound care, infusions, catheter care, PICC line dressing changes etc.
Requirements:
* An active RN License in the state of application
* Valid CPR
Preferred:
* Medicare Skilled Nursing experience
* Basic understanding of Oasis
* 1-year RN experience in a health care setting
As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.