We are looking for a Clinical Nurse Manager or Director of Nursing to join our home healthcare team. The Director of Nursing or Clinical Nurse Manager is a registered nurse or LPN who provides oversight of all patient care services and personnel. Ensures quality of patient care in the home. Coordinates care with the interdisciplinary team, patient, family, and referring agency. May also be called Director of Nurses, Supervising Nurse, Director of Clinical Services, Director of Professional Services, or a similar title.
Requirements:
Job Qualifications:
Education: Graduate from an accredited college or nursing program
Licensure: Active, state license as a registered nurse RN or LPN. Current driver's license.
Experience: 3 year of experience in home health care preferred. Management experience preferred.
Skills: Clinical skills as defined as generally accepted standards of practice. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively. Demonstrates proven decision-making skills. If required to make visits, proof of current CPR certification.
Transportation: Reliable transportation and valid auto liability insurance.
Environmental and Working Conditions:
Performs duties in an office environment. If required to make patient visits, may work in patients' homes in various conditions.
Possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and infectious diseases; ability to work a flexible schedule; ability to travel locally; some exposure to unpleasant weather; PRN emergency calls.
Essential Functions:
Makes patient and personnel assignments.
Previous Medicare or Medicaid or Private Duty Nursing Home Health experience.
Knowledge of state and federal regulations governing Home Health Care.
Must have excellent Organizational leadership, team building and diplomacy skills.
Oasis Knowledge to include hands-on experience with review
Coordinates patient care.
Ensures communication with all physicians involved in a patient's plan of care and other healthcare practitioners.
Integrates orders from all relevant physicians involved into the plan of care and ensures the orders are approved by the responsible physician.
Coordinates and integrates care provided by agency staff, including contractual providers.
Coordinates referrals.
Assures that patient needs are continually assessed. Assures reassessment of the patient's needs is performed by the appropriate healthcare professional when there is a significant health status change in the patient's condition, at the physician's request, and after hospital discharge.
Assures the development, implementation, and updates of the individualized plan of care in partnership with the patient, representative (if any), and caregiver(s).
Ensures provision of services as ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care, including patient and caregiver education and patient, caregiver, and family counseling.
Prepares clinical notes as appropriate.
Assumes responsibility for continuity, quality, and safety of services delivered in compliance with state and federal regulations.
Participates in activities relevant to professional services including the development of qualifications and assignment of Agency personnel.
Participates in Agency-sponsored in-service training.
Recommends resources needed to provide care.
Collaborates on the development and implementation of policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of care.
Collaborates with Agency leadership and appropriate staff to develop the organizational plan as it pertains to patient care.
Monitors and participates in the QAPI Program and assures appropriate corrective measures are performed.
Promotes compliance with all fiscal intermediary and/or other third-party payors, through education, coaching, and other assistance, as necessary.
Monitors systems and identifies problem areas to Administrator both verbally and through written reports.
Meets mandatory continuing education requirements of the Agency and licensing board.
Promotes and educates regarding the concepts of infection control and standard precautions in coordinating or performing patient care activities to prevent contamination and transmission of disease.
Uses effective interpersonal relations and communication skills; facilitates the use of these skills by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.
Ensures the care offered by the Agency is consistently available to all patients.