Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Home Health Clinical Support Specialist for a nursing job in Joshua Tree, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Clinical Support Specialist
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours
- Employment Type: Staff
Shift: Day, 8:30am to 5:00pm, must participate to be on call some nights weekends
Hours: 8
Job Type: Full Time
Under general supervision, this position is assigned to provide skilled nursing care to patients in their homes, following the orders of the attending physician, and to function as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
- Maintain established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality improvement program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Evaluate and assess the patient and his/her home environment.
- Communicate with the physician and other team members in order to develop and coordinate the care plan and to report any changes in the patient’s condition.
- Assist in implementing the patient’s care plan.
- Maintain current, accurate documentation in the client’s medical record.
- Maintain health care instruction to the patient as appropriate.
- Assess patient’s pain and obtain appropriate orders for symptom control.
- Serve as the liaison between the patient, support staff and physician.
- Enhance professional growth and development through participation in education programs, current literature, in-service meetings and workshops pertaining to home care and hospice care.
- Attend required number of departmental meetings per year.
- Direct and supervise home health aides.
- Demonstrates sensitivity and competence in the care of the ill and/or dying adolescent, adult, geriatric and pediatric patients relative to determining each patient’s age related physical, psychological and cultural needs.
Minimum Education
- Associate Degree in Nursing or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited school.
Minimum Experience
- 1 year of experience as an RN in an institutional setting
Required Certification/Registration
- CPR Certification
- California RN license
- Valid CA Driver’s license
- Current automobile insurance.
Preferred Courses/Training
- Courses in Home Health and/or Hospice
- Public Health Nurse Training
Skills: Administrative
- Prior supervisory experience of Aides preferred
Skills: Machine
- Knowledge of use of Personal Computer
Physical Demands
- Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling and crouching.
- Lifts supplies/equipment
- Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfers patients
- Lifting requirement 25#
- Prolonged, extensive or considerable standing/walking
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Tenet Desert Job ID #2603018754. Posted job title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health