Visiting Nurse

Openings Elkhart, Mishawaka, Plymouth, LaPorte Patient Care: • Assesses patient needs and evaluates symptoms and progress through the comprehensive assessment of the patient. • Executes the therapeutic regime of treatments, medications, and plan of care as prescribed. • Provides holistic, patient/family-centered care, as prescribed, in the patient's residence to improve the quality of life. • Functions within Agency guidelines for patient care productivity. • Consults and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the patient's care. • Initiates or facilitates referral of patient and/or family to appropriate Agency or community resources. • Performs admissions as assigned. • Completes an average of five (5) nursing visits per day. • Provides supervision of LPN, Home Health, and Hospice Aides in accordance with agency policy and regulatory requirements. Documentation/Reporting: • Accurately records and reports pertinent facts and observations regarding patients condition and response to treatment. Also documents on ECF chart, if applicable. • Reports appropriate information to the case manager, and the interdisciplinary team, by ensuring verbal and written reports are clear, concise and timely. • Documents problems, nursing assessments, care provided, care interventions and patient and family outcomes in the clinical record at the point of care. • Documents LPN, Home Health and Hospice Aide supervisory visits, and related follow up, no less frequently than every 14 days. • Assures the ECF chart’s Agency section contains necessary information for Agency/ECF compliance, if applicable. Teaching: • Teaches patient (or ECF staff as applicable) self-care. • Teaches those parts of patient care appropriate for each family to provide. • Teaches indication, side effects, and contraindication of all medications. Visit Nurse RN Page 2 Teaching (continued): • Assists the patient’s family (and ECF staff if applicable) with understanding the illness, dying process, plan of care, and needs of the patient. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS: • Committed to Agency resolution against fraud and abuse. • Knowledgeable in hospice philosophy, LCD, and state and federal rules and regulations. • Arrives to work and meetings on time and ready to work. • Respects confidentiality of patients/families and other Agency employees. • Attends nurses meetings, educational meetings/conferences for professional growth as required. • Participates in nursing validations as required. • Participates in agency infection control plan. • Sees change as an opportunity and maintains a level of flexibility, which allows for adaptation to new ways of performing. • Follows directions and policies that allow for an organizational commitment to working under time pressures without sacrificing quality. • Performs other duties that may be assigned