RN - HOME HEALTH
Company: University of New Mexico - Hospitals
Location: Albuquerque
Posted on: September 26, 2024
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Job Description:
UNM Hospitals participates in the Clinical Advancement Program
(CAP) and depending on your Nursing Education and National
Certifications, you'll work towards one of five CAP levels that
offer increasing compensation. You may earn up to $8.00 in addition
to base pay.
Department: Home Health Care
FTE: 1.00
Full Time
Shift: Days
Position Summary:
Provide direct nursing care to patients and families outside the
hospital setting. Coordinate home healthcare activities. Ensures
adherence to Hospital and Departmental Policies and Procedures.
Patient care assignment may include; Neonate, Pediatric,
Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric age groups.
Detailed responsibilities:
* PATIENT CARE - Assess patient's physical, psychological, social
and environmental status; develop patient care plan tailored to
needs assessment
* PATIENT CARE - Provide nursing care and coordinates ancillary
services to achieve treatment plan goals; supervises ancillary
nursing staff inpatient care provision
* PATIENT CARE - Administers medications and performs treatments
for assigned patients, in accordance with medical and nursing
protocols
* PATIENT CARE - Report pertinent observations and reaction
regarding changes in patient status to the appropriate team
person
* PATIENT CARE - Provide follow-up to ensure problem resolution;
record observations and patient care activities
* PATIENT CARE - Evaluate patient's response to approval plan of
treatment; modify treatment plan, as necessary
* PATIENT CARE - Interpret agency philosophy and policies to
patients, families, and other groups; utilize agency and community
resources to the benefit of the client
* CUSTOMER RELATIONS - Establish and maintain good rapport and
effective working relationships with patients, visitors, physicians
and Hospitals employees
* DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through
participation in educational programs, reading current literature,
attending in-services, meetings and workshops
* PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies,
procedures and protocols
* PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient
safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through
questioning of current policies and processes
* PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report/correct environmental
conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue
risk
* PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety
concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
* PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in
their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or
situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"
Qualifications
Education:
Essential:
* Program Graduate
Nonessential:
* Bachelor's Degree
Education specialization:
Essential:
* Nationally Accredited Nursing Graduate
Nonessential:
* Nursing
Experience:
Essential:
1 year directly related experience
Nonessential:
No preferred experience
Credentials:
Essential:
* CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days
* RN in NM or as allowed by reciprocal agreement by NM
Physical Conditions:
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally
(Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time)
and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently:
activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift,
carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human
body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may
involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are
sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally
and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Working conditions:
Essential:
* No or min hazard, physical risk, office environment
Department: Registered Nurse
Keywords: University of New Mexico - Hospitals, Albuquerque , RN - HOME HEALTH, Healthcare , Albuquerque, New Mexico
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