Rate of Pay is per visit not per hour
Healing Through Caring Home Care is looking for a LVN. When you join our team, you become part of something bigger and enjoy the perks of competitive pay + a flexible schedule while doing what you love. We are a provider of comprehensive home health, 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, and rehabilitation. Now more than ever, people in your community need in-home healthcare. Our team helps to keep them safe at home, during moments that matter most to them. Our clinicians focus on each unique patient to deliver the appropriate care and emotional support to our patients and their families.
Job Summary:
Primary function is to administer skilled nursing care, under the supervision of a registered nurse for patients in their place of residence, coordinate care with the interdisciplinary team and patient. This position will promote patients' potential during their home health episode and collaborates with physician, clinical team and patient in preparation for discharge.
Qualifications:
· Licensed Vocational Nurse, per the state requirements.
· Good communication skills to be able to relate professionally and positively to patients, caregivers, colleagues and physicians and strong clinical documentation skills.
· Ability to read, write, and speak the English language.
Essential functions:
· Under the direction of the RN, assist in identifying the patient’s physical, psychosocial, and environmental needs.
· Participate in planning and implementing care in conjunction with the RN, in accordance with the POC.
· Provide care utilizing infection control measures that protect both staff and patient (OSHA).
· Records treatments administered in medical record.
· Records clinical documentation according to accepted regulatory, corporate and professional guidelines.
· Participates in weekly case conferences.
· Participates in interdisciplinary communication to ensure that patients’ needs and expectation for services provided are understood and to ensure optimization of service delivery and patient progress.
· Provides verbal or written patient status updates to supervising RN prior to reassessment, supervisory and/or discharge visits, and as indicated by patient response to treatment.
· Participates in in-service training programs.
· Responsible for assuring patient safety.
· Complies with state regulations and national standards
· All documentation will be completed and synched by 9:00AM the following day, 7 days per week.
Continuing Education:
· Attends in-service and educational programs.
· Attends continuing education required for maintenance of professional license.
Physical Demands:
· Ability to communicate in English via phone, in writing, and verbally in conversation with different levels of staff, patients and their families, and any outside customers in accordance with the Company’s HIPAA Policy.
· The physical demands described 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.
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands or fingers, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perceptions, and ability to adjust focus. Ability to utilize a computer, phone, etc. for extended periods of time.
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to blood or other body fluids, fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Job Types: Part-time, PRN
Pay: $30.00 - $40.00 per hour
Benefits:
Medical specialties:
Standard shift:
Supplemental schedule:
Weekly schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
License/Certification:
Work Location: Multiple locations