What are the responsibilities and job description for the AvoCare LPN- Phoenix position at Centrix Health Resources?
Key Duties Include
Education and Experience:
- Follow Agency Policies and Procedures, Federal and State Regulations and Standards of Practice.
- Attending Agency In-services, Case conferences, or other meetings as requested.
- Provide skilled nursing services in accordance with the orders of a physician and under a plan of care in a patient’s home.
- Be responsible for the observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, counsel, care and health teaching of the ill, injured, or confined, and the maintenance of health and prevention of illness of others. (See Tactical Deliverables)
- Records the health needs of the patient.
- Provides those services requiring substantial specialized nursing skill based on the physician’s orders and the nursing diagnosis. Examples of such services include, but are not limited to; physical assessment, patient and family teaching, urinary catheter insertion.
- Foster a positive relationship with patients/caregivers and doctors to improve patient outcomes.
- Notifies patient/clients prior to visit and communicates further visits scheduled.
- Drives responsibly and safely to and from client’s home.
- Schedules own time based on priorities and maintains productivity utilizing time management.
- Provides appropriate and thorough service to patients/clients, ensuring proper completion of services in an accurate and timely manner and in accordance with agency policy.
- Make the initial patient/client Start of Care (SOC) assessment within an appropriate time as scheduled by the agency.
- Always demonstrates respectable customer service and professionalism.
- Establishes Home Bound Status and document.
- Provides skilled services and/or supervises, requiring substantial knowledge and skills in accordance with the Plan of Care (POC) and accepted standards of professional practice.
- Determines discipline frequencies according to physician order and/or assessed needs.
- Implement and adhere to physician’s orders where such orders are within the legal scope of professional nursing practice, performing venipuncture and/or obtaining specimen for lab and transport to appropriate testing site as ordered.
- Obtains physician order or verbal orders for Start of Care (SOC) or Resumption of Care (ROC) or Recertification (RECERT) within twenty-four (24) to forty-eight (48) hours from time of service.
- Notify physician with any changes with the initial plan of care (POC) and obtain any appropriate orders.
- Provide teaching to patient/client and answer health-related questions and document patient/client/caregiver understanding of education.
- Complete Home Health Nursing Aide care plan and make supervisory visits on Home Health Aides at least every fourteen days (14).
- Perform Supervisory visit at least every 30 days for LPN and document in Supervisory note.
- Document patient’s/client’s care using appropriate agency forms and submit to agency within appropriate timeline.
- Assess any medication changes with each Re-visit and update Medication Profile Form in the home and in the agency’s medical record.
- Notifies physician with any change in client condition, abnormal findings and new medications. Obtain orders as indicated with the appropriate form and submit them in a timely manner.
- Completes Discharge Oasis and Discharge Summary when patient/client is discharged.
- Complete Recertification Oasis every sixty (60) days while on service and obtain new orders for new plan of care.
- Communicate with staffing coordinator with any scheduling concerns and/or changes in patient/client assignment.
- Communicate all Start of Cares (SOC), Resumption of Care (ROC) or Recertification (RECERT) to the clinical support division within twenty- four (24) hours of completion.
- Maintain continuity of care and document communications with others within the health care team.
- Demonstrate work that meets quality standards. Assist in periodic auditing of paperwork of self/peers.
- Assist in training of new personnel for field duty. Assist in training student nurses.
- Communicates regularly with Director of Nursing and Clinical Supervisor with all patient/client concerns or ideas for better patient/client outcomes.
- Adheres to Agency Code of Conduct, Standards of Practice, and Patients/Clients Rights/ Responsibilities.
- Demonstrates professionalism in appearance, adhering to Agency dress code.
- Accessible transportation to and from patients/clients’ visits.
- Ability to lift 30 pounds, move intermittently throughout the workday, inclusive of sitting, standing and bending, pushing, pulling or moving objects and patients/clients.
Education and Experience:
- Currently licensed as a Practical Nurse to practice in the State of Arizona (or) Current multi-state license from another compact state utilizing their valid compact state license for up to 30 days until an Arizona permanent license is issued.