**Looking for part-time opportunities** Competitive wages, paid time off, dental, vision and health insurance, we also offer flexible hours.
Home Instead is looking for a nurse to become a part of our team and join our mission of enhancing the lives of aging adults throughout our community. Home Instead provides a variety of non-medical services that allow seniors to remain in their home and meet the challenges of aging with dignity, care and compassion.
Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Assess the client; collect and document their current health status and medical history. Complete and/or review client data as defined by policy and procedure. Make accurate and ongoing assessment of client’s status and respond appropriately.
- Set priorities for nursing action in logical sequence according to client’s needs and plan of care.
- Create a client plan of care, after the initial assessment and evaluation visit with clients, and coordination with other providers for the client, to meet client needs. Review the plan of care as often as the severity of the client’s condition requires, at minimum every 60 days or more frequently if required by state rules.
- Update the plan of care based on all aspects of ongoing assessments.
- Determine where delegation of nursing services is appropriate in accordance with applicable regulations, individual client condition, and each assigned team member’s training and demonstrated competency, and maintain documentation of all factors evaluated in making the determination(s).
- Based on ongoing assessment of client status, accurately and completely document care to reflect nursing interventions, client responses to care provided, client needs, problems, capabilities, limitations and progress toward goals.
- Communicate with the entire healthcare team (internal & external) to eliminate barriers to efficient delivery of care assessment.
- Demonstrate ability to handle changing/emergency situations in a prompt, precise and professional manner.
Qualifications:
Must be currently licensed as an RN or LPN, minimum 3 years’ experience, would prefer home health or hospice background. Must have current driver’s license, auto insurance, social security card, complete background check and drug screen.