Job Description

- Full-time: 40 hours per week (Days: 8:00am - 5:00pm)

- Travel Location: Anaheim Hills, Orange, Villa Park, Yorba Linda

- Assesses patients for skilled home health needs, develops and initiates a plan of care with the physician approval and provides nursing care ordered by the physician to patients in their place of residence, continually re-evaluates the patient’s nursing needs.

Essential Functions

- Demonstrates knowledge and competency in performing baseline-nursing skills, including assessment, wound care, catheter care and infusion. Maintains clinical competencies according to agency standards.

- Completes comprehensive assessments, including OASIS items, accurately and timely at specific time-points as defined by regulation and agency policy.

- Develops a plan of care, in collaboration with the patient, family/caregiver and physician orders including frequency and duration of nursing visits, specific care or treatments to be provided, appropriate goals, medications, other disciplines needed and discharge plan.

- Documents the comprehensive assessment and plan of care in the EHR and synchronizes by 10:00AM the following day.

- Implements and provides nursing care, treatment and services according to the plan of care and accepted standards of care, including patient education and any IV or other medications required to be administered by the nurse.

- Communicates changes in patient status, patient issues and concerns and changes in orders to the Physician, Clinical Manager and Clinical Supervisor according to agency guidelines.

About the client: 

- Fantastic benefits and compensation package