Home Health Transitional Nurse

Home Health Transitional Nurse Location

Phoenix, AZ.

Pay Range

• $40 - $42 per hour Join our team as a Home Team Nurse for a growing company that has a huge heart, fast-paced work environment, and great benefits! Work with passionate, talented professionals that are dedicated to serving our clients and feel rewarded knowing that your job MATTERS!
• The
• Company: Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health is a family, clinically-owned company that has been caring for the medically fragile community since 2000! The company was founded by a nurse with a huge heart, and today we pride ourselves on our values: Heart, Advocacy, Love, and Outreach! #HALOS
• The
• Position: Using strong clinical and assessment skills to assess patients’ post-acute needs in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary Halos Home Team and the patients discharge care providers to ensure continuity of care when discharging home.
• Essential
• Duties and
• Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned): Focus on the medical needs and treatment of infants, children, and/or adolescents primarily in their home according to the active plan of care, as given by the physician and other appropriate personnel. Maintain positive internal and external customer service relationships. Conduct on-going patient care and assessments. Administration of prescribed medications, treatments, and therapies. Coordination of care. Educate family members/caregivers on patient clinical care to enhance positive outcomes. Preventative initiatives to protect quality of care for patient. Assess patients’ post-acute care needs in collaboration with the Clinical Care Managers and the patients discharge care providers to ensure continuity of care when discharging home. Provide interim care to patients experiencing gaps due to call offs, vacations and staff shortages with varying acuity and scheduling needs. Provide one-on-one training to nurses in the field to ensure a smooth clinical and non-clinical transition assuring continuity of care when the Halo’s Home Team exists the case. In conjunction with support staff, serve as a liaison and patient advocate on complicated cases.
• Performance
• Responsibilities: The following listing applies to every employee.
• All employees of the organization: Exercise necessary cost control measures. Maintain positive internal and external customer service relationships. Demonstrate effective communication skills by conveying necessary information accurately, listening effectively and asking questions when clarification is needed. Be depended upon to plan and organize work effectively and ensure its completion. Meet all productivity requirements. Demonstrate team behavior and must be willing to promote a team-oriented environment. Represent the organization professionally at all times. Demonstrate initiative Continually improve processes and relationships.
• Qualifications/Requirements:
• Active
• PA
• RN or
• LPN license
• Active
• CPR
• Abilities,
• Skills, and
• Knowledge: Trach/vent experience preferred Home care preferred Strong oral and written communications skills Adaptability Provide care in a client home setting Ability to make a positive and lasting impression
• Ability to work as a team member
• Special
• Requirements: Flexibility in scheduling with the ability to work on call as needed.
• Physical
• Demands &
• Working
• Conditions: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and move Requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and patient needs, and to make quick decisions and resource acquisition’ meet patient/family individualized psycho socials needs.

Office

works in a routine office environment. Noise level may be moderately high, ability to work a flexible schedule and extended hours. Ability to travel locally and some exposure to inclement weather. Ability to hear and respond to pages, ability to understand and apply training and in-service education, ability to instruct personnel during training, education and staff meetings, and ability to remain calm in emergency situations and when handling multiple tasks. Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position. Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity and the ability to work effectively with clients, personnel, and support.

Home

Works in patients’ home in various conditions; possible exposure to blood and bodily fluids and infectious diseases; ability to work flexible schedule; ability to travel locally; some exposure to unpleasant weather, PRN emergency call.

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