Registered Nurse Home Care

Description

Full time: Monday - Friday 8a-4p. Opening available in Laconia/Meredith.

Granite VNA is currently hiring Registered Nurses for our Home Care patients in the 82 towns that we serve. Come join us and work with some amazing clinicians while doing meaningful work!

When you join Granite VNA, you have the opportunity to deliver care, provide compassion and comfort, each day in the place where people of all ages feel most comfortable, their homes.

The Home Care Registered Nurse (RN) helps achieve our mission by delivering age appropriate care to the patient in the home setting, utilizing standard nursing best practice: assessment, planning, intervention, implementation and evaluation within scope of practice defined by the NH Board of Nursing. RNs will effectively interact with patients, caregivers and other healthcare team members while maintaining all standards of professional nursing. RNs will supervise Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Nursing Assistants assigned to patients.

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive pay
• Exceptional benefits to include medical, dental, vision
• 401k with Employer match
• Employer paid short term disability*
• Employer paid long term disability**
• Employer paid life insurance**
• Tuition reimbursement
• Robust vacation package
• Verizon discount
• AAA membership

(Plus, all sorts of other great perks.)

* Eligibility - employed 20 hours or more a week

** Eligibility - employed 30 hours or more a week

You also get to join a team of amazing people!!

Allows for the opportunity to see one patient at a time. "Nothing better than to support the patient in their most desired location... home."

Essential Job Functions

• Develops and implements appropriate plan of care (POC) that complies with referral source orders, specific treatment measures, frequency/expected duration and discharge goals in partnership with the patient, healthcare provider, patient representative (if any) and/or caregiver(s) based on thorough assessment incorporating all aspects of patient limitations and goals, and potential discharge environment.
• Documents accurate and ongoing assessment/reassessment, treatment and discharge of the patient: nursing (RN) interventions, patient response to care provided, patient/caregiver educational needs, problems, capabilities, limitations and progress toward goals. Documentation includes evidence of appropriate patient/caregiver teaching, and the understanding of these instructions in accordance with agency guidelines
• Engages the patient /caregiver in meaningful education as indicated per care plan.
• Communicates with all physicians involved in the POC and other health practitioners related to the current POC.
• Demonstrates responsibility to effectively coordinate the patient’s POC with members of the Interdisciplinary Team and other health professionals through team/patient care conference.
• Updates patient’s short-term/long-term goals as appropriate based on interdisciplinary team assessments and re-assessments.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing, accompanied by current New Hampshire nursing license, or compact state license through the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).
• One year of recent general medical/surgical RN or skilled/acute care RN experience.