Company

Penn Medicine Home Health

Summary

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Telehealth RN is responsible for the clinical review and interpretation of patient monitored data and acts on significant changes in the patient’s condition.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:

• Recognizes individual patient safety concerns and conveys that information to the appropriate patient care staff.
• Reacts appropriately to potential emergencies as indicated by abnormal monitoring results.
• Obtains verbal orders from physicians as appropriate when establishing a change in the care plan .
• Prioritizes actions appropriate to the patient’s needs and level of acuity.
• Helps to set parameters that are meaningful for the patient with the physician’s approval.
• Documents patient incidents according to policy.
• Complies with safety policies and procedures at all times and informs the Telehealth Manager of any unsafe conditions.
• Recognizes emergencies and demonstrates knowledge of emergency procedures.
• Is familiar with all models of monitoring equipment and related peripherals.
• Can instruct in their operations verbally in order to troubleshoot malfunctions in the field.
• Teaches staff, students, patients, and families the value of daily monitoring, including improved patient outcomes.
• Instructs on the installation and use of monitoring equipment.
• Cooperates in the orientation of new staff persons by acquainting them to the Telehealth Clinician RN position as requested.
• Participates in staff meetings and in-service training.
• Reviews all incoming monitoring data.
• Effectively communicates changes in the patient’s condition to the appropriate patient care staff so that intervention can occur in a timely manner.
• Notifies the patient’s physician of significant changes in the patient’s condition when the Case Manager is not involved.
• Communicates with internal staff, physicians, and insurers in order to prompt timely patient care, to change the patient’s plan of care as needed, and generally to collaborate in order to keep the patient in the least restrictive environment possible.
• Faxes tabular trends to physicians monthly and when the patient’s condition warrants.
• Identifies patients that may be appropriate for monitoring or that may benefit from other monitoring programs after discharge from home health care.
• Follows the organization’s policy regarding the confidential treatment of patient, employee, and proprietary information.
• Identifies areas which may present compliance problems with federal regulations for the position’s assigned responsibilities.
• Follows the organization’s policies and procedures in order to maintain compliance with federal regulations.
• Suggests monitoring procedures and reports suspected violations.
• Keeps internal and external clinicians informed of changes in the conditions of monitored patients and suggests interventions as appropriate.
• Helps other clinicians to incorporate daily monitoring into the patient’s plan of care.
• Is an expert at using the monitoring central station software.
• Effectively uses software to provide information, document changes and actions, and keep all patient care records up-to-date.
• Signs of on verbal orders taken by the Telehealth LPN .
• Uses strong clinical knowledge and verbal assessment skills to assess patient’s condition remotely .

SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:

• Other duties as assigned.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania
• Valid Pennsylvania driver’s license
• One year previous work experience as RN in med/surg, hospital, or related skilled setting.
• Strong clinical knowledge of cardiopulmonary disease processes .
• Strong clinical knowledge of cardiopulmonary pharmacology .
• A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Two year’s work experience as RN in a critical care setting or a cardiac telemetry inpatient setting.

• Two years home care experience

COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS

Attention/Concentration: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:

The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.

New Learning and Memory: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:

The position requires that an individual be able to learn new tasks quickly and effectively. Job requirements change frequently. The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved instructions in mandatory.

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think (in order to solve a problem) by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:

The position deals with issues or problems that often require thoughtful reasoning before arriving at approaches or solutions. Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and solutions is necessary. The individual must have the ability to apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

TEMPERAMENTS: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:

Creativity, feelings or ideas: Ability to adapt to situations involving the interpretation of feelings, ideas, or facts in terms of personal viewpoint; to use creativity, self-expression, or imagination.

Influencing others: Ability to influence people in their opinions, attitudes or judgments about ideas or things; to motivate, convince or negotiate.

Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.

Working within tolerances, set limits or standards: Ability to adapt to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits, tolerances, or standards; to be precise, thorough, exacting, or meticulous in regard to material worked; or in activities such as numerical determinations, record preparation, or inspecting.

Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.

Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.

Planning and control: Ability to identify task requirements and monitor progress toward accomplishment.

Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

EQUIPMENT USAGE REQUIREMENTS : MACHINES, EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, and SOFTWARE: To perform the essential duties of the position, use of the following machines, equipment, tools, and software is customarily required:

Machinery/Equipment: Computer, phone, copier, printer, fax

Tools: Office supplies

Software: Microsoft Office Products

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS : Degree of physical exertion is light, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

BODY POSITION AND MOVEMENT: The following positions or movements are typical of the job:

• SITTING is done frequently.
• WALKING is done occasionally.
• STANDING is done occasionally.
• CLIMBING is done seldom.
• REACHING (Extending out and retrieving objects outside immediate range) is done seldom.
• PUSHING (To press against something with substantial steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward) is done seldom.
• PULLING (To exert a considerable force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion) is done seldom.
• LIFTING (To raise objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position) is done occasionally.
• END‑RANGE MOTION (To fully extend or retract a bodily part or joint to its maximum range in order to reach, push, pull, lift, or otherwise perform job functions) is done seldom.
• STOOPING/CRAWLING (To lower the body to floor level, and move about with agility) is done seldom.

VISUAL REQUIREMENTS: (Considerations include color, depth perception and field of vision).

• The job requires a good sense of vision (with or without correction) necessary to distinguish like objects from one another, to scan fields of data and select numbers or characters, and/or to detect and visually follow moving objects.

  AUDITORY (HEARING) REQUIREMENTS: Examples of the types of sounds that must be heard and the reason they must be heard are listed below:

  SOUND PURPOSE

  Voices to converse, communicate

  Telephone ringing to answer incoming calls

  WORKING CONDITIONS:

Exposure to hazardous conditions/ materials is negligible.

Disclaimer: This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be a reflection of those principal job elements essential for recruitment and selection, for making fair job evaluations, and for establishing performance standards. The percentages of time spent performing job duties are estimates, and should not be considered absolute. The incumbent shall perform all other functions and/or be cross-trained as shall be determined at the sole discretion of management, who has the right to amend, modify, or terminate this job in part or in whole. Incumbent must be able to perform all job functions safely.

Disclaimer

PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

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