What are the responsibilities and job description for the AvoCare Palliative- Registered Nurse position at Centrix Health Resources?
Title: Nurse Care Manager
Part-time
Responsibilities
Education and Experience:
Part-time
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and provide home visits for palliative care patients who have a chronic or serious illness and need symptom management and/or education
- Document in EMR- assessment, patient status, and outcome, goals of care needs, after each visit
- Ensure regulatory compliance with documentation requirements
- Adhere to HIPPA at all times
- Identify patient needs and initiate appropriate goals updating as needed
- Communicate and coordinate on a consistent basis with members of team, other healthcare providers involved in pt care and Insurance Case Managers
- Act as a liaison and advocate for PC patients admitted to the hospital
- Participate and assist in any quality improvement or other studies involving palliative care
- Ensure the plan of care for assigned patients is adhered to
- Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and participate by providing patient updates
- Participate in regular scheduled staff meetings and inservices
- Additional duties as agreed upon to meet agency need
- RN or LPN with minimum of 3 years full-time equivalent experience
- Past nursing experience should be in a transferable or applicable clinical venue
- Currently licensed as a Registered or Practical Nurse to practice in the State of Arizona
- Demonstrates clinical competency; ability to collaborate with others; ability to initiate and plan own work activities; effective time management skills and professionalism
- Possess and maintain good physical stamina and mental health
- Notifies patient prior to visit and communicates further visits scheduled.
- Drives responsibly and safely to and from client’s place of residence.
- Schedules 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.
- Always demonstrates respectable customer service and professionalism.
- Determines discipline frequencies according to physician order and/or assessed needs.
- Provide teaching to patient/client and answer health-related questions and document patient/client/caregiver understanding of education.
- Document patient’s/client’s care using appropriate agency forms and submit to agency within appropriate timeline.
- 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.
- Adheres to Agency Code of Conduct, Standards of Practice, and Patients/Patient Rights
- Demonstrates professionalism in appearance, adhering to agency dress code.
- Accessible transportation to and from patients 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 Registered 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.