Staff RN III - Home Health FT Days

Core Competencies

• Adheres to infection prevention guidelines
  
  
• Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care
  
  
• Assesses patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status
  
  
• Communicates with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care
  
  
• Complies with Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals
  
  
• Complies with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals
  
  
• Interprets common variables affecting patient care and follows reporting process
  
  
• Maintains regulatory compliance consistent with quality standards and ethical obligations of the profession
  
  
• Participates in activities in alignment with the Magnet Model
  
  
• Participates in organizational activities
  
  
• Participates in Peer Review
  
  
• Participates in professional development activities
  
  
• Performs as a preceptor in an active and engaged manner
  
  
• Provides age-specific individualized care that supports protection from harm and complies with patient safety centered interventions/bundles
  
  
• Provides patient and family education throughout the care of patient
  
  
• Uses critical thinking to formulate and carry out a care plan according to patient needs
  
  
• Utilizes resources in an economical manner
  
  
• Utilizes safe administration of medications
  
  
• Utilizes Safe Patient Handling
  
  

Department Specific Competencies

• Demonstrates Home Health specific competencies.
  
  
• Performs OASIS/Comprehensive assessment and completes documentation in a timely manner.
  
  
• Adheres to the guidelines regarding time points of specific questions, WOCN and outpatient infusion guidance.
  
  
• Oversees coordination, communication and facilitation of the patient plan of care in a timely manner, while involving the physicians, staff and other healthcare team members.
  
  
• Submits weekly case management schedule to manager and coordinate care with interdisciplinary team, oversight of LVNs and CHHAs, and report any changes to manager immediately.
  
  
• Supervises and documents the home health aide plan of care every 2 weeks.
  
  
• Attends weekly case conference and staff meetings.
  
  
• Adheres to the telecommuting policy and obtains approval prior to using
  
  
• Rotates on-call duties, responds within 20 minutes of receiving call, submits a call log next morning to the on call manager or team lead.” Would you put this back in halogen, so I can complete my RN job descriptions
  
  
• Adheres to annual I will statements.
  
  

Education

Experience

License / Certification Requirements