Registered Nurse, Home Health PRN

Company: Kindred at Home
Location: Meridian
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

OUR CARE MATTERS.---- When you join the Kindred at Home team, you become part of something bigger. We are the nation---s leading provider of comprehensive home health, hospice, and non-medical home care services. Our team delivers compassionate, high-quality care to patients in their homes or places of residence, including non-medical personal assistance, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, hospice and palliative care. Now more than ever, people in your community need in-home healthcare. Our team helps to keep them safely at home, during moments that matter most to them.----Our caregivers focus on each unique patient to deliver the appropriate care and emotional support to our patients and their families. -- OUR EMPLOYEES MATTER. We believe a world-class patient experience is enabled by an exceptional employee experience.--And, committed to fostering an amazing employee experience at Kindred at Home.-- Our people are our greatest resource and asset, and we are committed to helping our employees thrive and fulfill their personal and professional goals. -- WE OFFER: * Competitive pay and 401k * Healthy Steps Wellness * Healthcare Plans * Employee Assistance Program * Centers of Excellence Program * Educational Assistance * Clinical ladder for professional credentialing and advancement * Leadership development * Talent focused Framework * Targeted personal and career development planning -- As a HOME HEALTH REGISTERED NURSE, you will: * Provide admission, case management, and follow-up skilled nursing visits for home health patients. * Administer on-going care and case management for each patient, provide necessary follow-up as directed by the Clinical Manager. * Confer with physician in developing the initial plan of treatment based on physician's orders and initial patient assessment.-- Provide hands-on care, management and evaluation of the care plan and teaching of the patient in accordance with physician orders, under Clinical Manager's supervision.-- Revise plan in consultation with physician based on ongoing assessments and as required by policy/regulation. * Coordinate appropriate care, encompassing various healthcare personnel (such as Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Home Health Aides and external providers). * Report patient care/condition/progress to patient's physician and Clinical Manager on a continuous basis.-- * Implement patient care plan in conjunction with patient and family to assist them in achieving optimal resolution of needs/problems.-- * Coordinate/oversee/supervise the work of Home Health Aides, Certified Home Health Aides and Personal Care Workers and provides written personal care instructions/care plan that reflect current plan of care.-- Monitor the appropriate completion of documentation by home health aides/personal care workers as part of the supervisory/leadership responsibility. * Discharge patients after consultation with the physician and Clinical Manager, preparing and completing needed clinical documentation. * Prepare appropriate medical documentation on all patients, including any case conferences, patient contacts, medication order changes, re-certifications, progress updates, and care plan changes.-- Prepare visit/shift reports, updates/summarizes patient records, and confers with other health care disciplines in providing optimum patient care.

Keywords: Kindred at Home, Tuscaloosa , Registered Nurse, Home Health PRN, Healthcare , Meridian, Alabama