Per-Diem Field RN
On-siteScotch Plains, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Assess patients' clinical status and environment to identify needs for treatment, pain management, and personal care across home, nursing facility, and residential center settings. Develop and implement hospice plans of care in conjunction with the Inter-Disciplinary Group, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and agency policies. Coordinate, supervise, and orient Home Health Aides while establishing nursing visit frequencies based on assessed patient needs. Provide education, counseling, and interventions to maximize quality of life, administer medications, perform wound care, and maintain accurate documentation in the Electronic Medical Record. Participate in triage systems, regularly scheduled meetings, and the Quality Assessment and Improvement Program. Requires current NJ RN license, ability to travel to multiple locations, and a licensed driver's vehicle.
Required Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional (registered) nursing
- Currently licensed as an RN through the NJ State Board of Nursing
- Medical/Surgical and/or other experience to demonstrate basic, safe nursing knowledge and skills
- Complies with accepted professional standards and principles
- Flexible and available for assignments to varied days, venues and shifts
- Requires advanced time management and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal relationship skills
- Supportive of organizational policies and philosophy
- Demonstrates physical/mental ability to perform job function
- Presents a pre-employment physician's health clearance
- Ability to carry up to 25 pounds
- Push and pull up to 50 pounds
- Occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, reaching and fingering
- Exchanging ideas by means of the spoken and written word, primarily in English
- Must be able to hear and distinguish sounds
- Must be able to see and focus on shape, size, distance, motions, depth, color and other characteristics in day or nighttime
- Frequent sitting, standing and walking
- Work both inside and outside the agency's building
- Must be able to enter buildings and homes that are not handicap accessible
- Must be able to perform basic arithmetic operations quickly and accurately
- Problem solve, reason and analyze
- Able to drive, walk, climb, bend, reach and lift as needed to travel to, and provide assigned patient care, unaided, in un-controlled environments
- Must be licensed driver
- Available automobile that is insured in accordance with state and/or organization requirements and agency policy
- Excellent observation, clinical judgment and communication skills
- Ability to provide written documentation in a timely manner into the agency's EMR
- Self-directed with the ability to work with little supervision
- Ability to operate equipment including, but not limited to, general medical equipment such as electric bed, wheelchair, shower chair, bedside commode
- RN License
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