OB SUMMARY - RN Home Care
2911 Herring Ave Suite 312 Waco 76718
Schedule is: Full time, Weekdays. 8a-5p, with some evening visits and possible weekend events
The Nurse Family Partnership Home Care Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate client care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the client, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the client’s response-. The RN promotes safe passage for their clients by using knowledge of client needs and the healthcare environment to assist clients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each client’s condition and the competencies of the employee. The Home Care RN is accountable for providing comprehensive nursing care through home visits to babies, mothers and families eligible for the Nurse Family Partnership Program. Travel to sites will be personal vehicle, with mileage reimbursement
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
- Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Assesses the health care, educational and psychosocial needs of the client and family. Identifies and prioritizes client and family needs.
- Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.
- Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing delicate indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
- Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe and therapeutic environment for clients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with client and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both fervid and physical pain with the aim of promoting relief and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
- Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a client’s and family’s unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.
- Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of client and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects client and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
- Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates the learning for clients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed conclusions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes. Assists clients with self-management through education, visits and telephonic engagement; encourages and helps client adherence to their care plans.
- Partnership: Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and delicate to all team members’ unique contributions.
- Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up. Researches, evaluates and recommends resources to meet medical and non-medical needs of clients and families. Partners, refers and communicates across all programs to ensure appropriate coordination of services.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
- Bachelor Science in Nursing (BSN)
- Two years recent experience in maternal/child' health, public health, home visiting or mental/behavioral nursing preferred.
- Home visiting experience preferred
- Knowledge and expertise of nursing and client care standards and procedures.
- Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to home care .
- Knowledge of medical terminology; methods and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.
- Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and client privacy rights.
- Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
- Social skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.
- Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of clients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.
- Ability to provide age-specific, quality, client-centered care to all clients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a client care plan to meet the needs of separate clients.
- General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
- Must be able to work a flexible schedule including some evening and weekends
BENEFITS
Our competitive benefits package includes the following
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level
QUALIFICATIONS
- EDUCATION - Bachelor's (BSN required)
- MAJOR - Nursing
- EXPERIENCE - 2 Years of Experience
- CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION - Registered Nurse (RN)
- Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.
