Home Health Registered Nurse CM

Job Description

Job Description

Description : Position Summary :

To provide nursing care in accordance with the client’s plan of care to include comprehensive health and psychosocial evaluation, monitoring of the client’s condition, health promotion and prevention coordination of services, teaching and training activities and direct nursing care.

Position Summary Expanded :

Under the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act, (“The Unity Bill”) this position is considered a “Safety-sensitive position. “Safety-sensitive” is defined to include “any job that includes tasks or duties that could affect the safety and health of the employee performing the task or others.” Employees working in “safety-sensitive” roles are subject to this exception and subject to disciplinary action in the event of a positive test for marijuana or its metabolites.

Primary Position Responsibilities :

• Provides skilled nursing services in accordance with the orders of a physician and under the plan of care in patient’s home. Has the responsibility for the observation, assessment nursing diagnosis, counsel, care and health teaching of the ill, injured or confined and the maintenance of health and prevention of illness.
• Records the health needs of the patient.
• Performs and completes Comprehensive OASIS assessments and associated paperwork in accordance to agency policy to include start of care, recertifications, resumptions of care and discharge visits
• Coordinates the care of all patients in his / her case load
• Makes referrals to other agencies or services as needed
• Provides summary reports to the patient’s physician about patients under care, when the patient’s conditions changes, deviations from the plan of care or at least every 60 days.
• Participates in in-service programs, staff meetings and weekly Case Conference meetings.
• Complies with Home Health Compliance Plan, Infection Control and HIPPA policies
• Available to work after hours and weekends on an on-call basis, per policy to meet the client care requirements.

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