Full Time Home Care Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

Advanced Home Health opened for business in 1999; we have been purchased by new owners Legacy Care Partners. Legacy was borne from a passion to get it right, to get it done, and to get patients back to their daily lives as quickly and comfortably as possible. Legacy's motto is people and family's first. This includes you.
Why Advanced
• Generous Salary and Benefit package
• Assist in building a national company!
• Investment in training and technology
• Unparalleled culture of caring
• One on One care with patients
• Flexible scheduling
• Still maintain your home life
Day to Day Life at Advanced
• Providing initial and ongoing assessment to determine level of functioning.
• A Registered Nurse gathers background data, reviews referrals, selects and modifies evaluation tools, and evaluates patients determining the level of patient’s physical and psychosocial functioning.
• Developing and revising the plan of care in consultation with the physician and other care-team members.
• Responsible for planning, evaluation, and treatment implementation of assigned caseload.
• Preparing clinical progress notes.
• Supervising LPN's, therapy assistants, and home health aides as appropriate.
• Evaluating outcomes.
• Planning Discharge.
• Educate patients and/or families about proper safe use and recommend methods for installation of adaptive equipment.
Required Experience:
• Currently licensed registered nurse in the State of Michigan.
• Minimum of two years of nursing in an acute care or home care setting is highly preferred.
• CPR certification preferred.
• Compliance with accepted professional standards and practices.
• Self-directed with the ability to work with little supervision.
• Avid team player responsibilities:
• Accountable for an assigned caseload of patients to a developed plan of care.
• Adheres to privacy and security standards provided by all federal, state, and local authorities of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other applicable state laws.
• Provides care, treatment, and services in accordance with professional standards of practice, practice guidelines, law, and regulations.
• Develops and implements a comprehensive, goal focused, patient-centered care plan for each patient and makes updates in accordance with written orders from the physician

ensuring patient collaboration and understanding.
• Makes planned home visits in accordance with the individualized patient Plan of Care.
• Makes referrals to other services as indicated.
• Prepares and maintains clinical documentation according to Agency policies and acceptable nursing standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Area
Macomb & Oakland Counties

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