At Pinnacle Home Care, we are more than just a Medicare-certified and Florida-licensed Home Health Company. We're a team of award-winning, dedicated professionals driven by a singular mission: Changing Lives Through the Art of the Experience.
Our priority at Pinnacle Home Care is to cultivate a positive workplace atmosphere where every employee feels valued, supported, and energized in their role. By prioritizing employee well-being and satisfaction, Pinnacle Home Care ensures that our team can deliver the highest quality care to our clients with passion and dedication.
Why join us
- Health, Vision, Dental Insurance
- 401K Match
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Flexible Scheduling
- Professional Growth Opportunities
- Paid Mileage
- Live QA – To Assist with OASIS Documentation
- Employee Referral Program!
- Daily Pay (Work today. Get paid tomorrow!)
- Multiple Award-Winning “Top Work Places”
JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
The Registered nurse plans, organizes, and directs home care services and is experienced in nursing, emphasizing community health education/experience. The professional nurse builds from the resources of the community to plan and direct services to meet the needs of individuals and families within their homes and communities.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Completes an initial assessment of patient and family to determine home care needs. Provides a complete physical assessment, and history of current and previous illness(es).
- Regularly re-evaluates patient nursing needs.
- Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as a patient's status and needs change.
- Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
- Develops a care plan, which establishes goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates therapeutic, preventative, and rehabilitative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
- Initiates appropriate preventative and rehabilitative nursing procedures. Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician. Provides direct patient care as defined in the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Counsel the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.
- Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan of care.
- Identifies discharge planning needs as part of the care plan development and implements prior to discharge of the patient.
- Acts as Case Manager when assigned by Clinical Supervisor and assumes responsibility for coordinating patient care for assigned caseload.
- Prepares clinical notes and updates the primary physician when necessary and at least every 60 days.
- Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports any changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physicians orders as required.
- Communicates with community health-related persons to coordinate the care plan.
- Participates in on-call duties as defined by the on-call policy.
- Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.
- Instructs, supervises, and evaluates home health aide care provided every two weeks,
The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description. Incumbents must be compliant with the conditions of participation for the Center for Medicare/ Medicaid Services.
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Education
Required
- Technical/other training or better in Nursing
Licenses & Certifications
Required
Skills
Required