Position Summary: Provides nursing care to patients and/or residents generally in their homes at the direction of a Registered Nurse within a given service area by performing the following duties personally. Responsible for ensuring that all critical tasks are fulfilled on a timely basis.
Critical Tasks:
Maintains exclusive focus upon patients, the quality of their care, their individual needs and their medical outcomes without significant distraction by administrative and non-patient contact activities.
Complies fully with all patient medical records and information privacy regulations, state and federal.
Takes all steps necessary to fully ensure patient/resident and medical data confidentiality and security by all clinic staff.
Ensures that patients and residents are comfortable and well cared for according to state and federal regulations as well as contemporary nursing practices.
Ensures exceptional and very highly responsive nursing care for all patients and residents through personal actions.
Maintains awareness of comfort and safety needs of patients and residents.
Observes patients and residents, records significant conditions and reactions, and notifies supervisor of patient's condition and reaction to drugs, treatments, and significant incidents.
Takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs to detect deviations from normal while assessing condition of patients and residents.
Assists patients with wound care, transferring and activities of daily living in a manner that creates self-dependency by patients.
Administers vaccines, collects specimens and performs phlebotomy services for laboratory purposes.
Provides medications to patients only as specifically ordered and documented with 100% accuracy in terms of medicine, dose and timing.
Fills Mediset Medication Organizers and syringes for later use by patients with 100% accuracy and instructs patients/guardians on proper medication administration methods.
May provide limited personal services such as making beds, patient bathing, feeding patients, administering medications, and ensuring residence environmental safety.
Reviews physician's orders, lab requests, or follow-up needs with patients and residents.
Charts patient and resident data in compliance with Medicare requirements while accurately noting abnormal findings and changes in patient condition.
Collects samples such as urine, blood, and sputum, from patients for testing.
Performs all duties only within competency, certification and licensure limitations.
Performs all duties with the highest level of cleanliness and when appropriate, sterility.
Designs and participates in health awareness and wellness activities within the assigned service area.
Demonstrates ability to regularly change priorities to accomplish all tasks despite frequent interruptions.
Demonstrates ability to clearly communicate, both orally and in writing, while performing all essential functions.
Performs other special projects and duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications: