Home Care Admssions Nurse (LPN)

Job Description

Job Description

Join Our Winning Team!

We offer our At Home Care family:

• • Medical, Vision, Dental, and Life insurance
  • Direct Deposit
  • Top pay wage scale
  • Paid Time off and holiday pay
  • Paid Travel 
  •   If you’re seeking a rewarding career in health care, At Home Care is the place for you! Our  GREAT MANAGERS believe YOU matter, and YOUR voice is heard.           
    

Job Purpose :

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members. The LPN/RN will report directly to the Director of Nursing. 

Skills/Qualifications :

LPN must be 21 years of age with a HS diploma and a Certificate of Practical Nursing and/or Associate Degree, and have a current unrestricted license to work in the state of Missouri and be CPR certified. The LPN/RN must have a minimum of 2 years of direct patient contact with either a Skilled Nursing Facility or an In- Home Care Agency. 

Job Responsibilities :

• Provide skilled nursing interventions in the treatment of the patient’s illness, rehabilitative needs, and preventive care. 
• Utilize a skilled approach in the provision of problem-specific therapeutic interventions, teachings, and training activities in accordance with the plan of care. 
• Assists with admissions and assessments
• Regularly visits LTC and Hospital facilities to assist with outreach and marketing
  
• Develops sales by making initial presentations; explaining products and services; and by performing community outreach. He or she will provide education to the clients, hospital staff, physicians, and community stakeholders on Home Care Services and the admission process. 
• Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; and supervising assigned team members.
• Confer with the RN supervisor regarding needed changes in the Plan of Treatment/Care.
• Provide hands-on care and patient education utilizing At Home Care Policy. 
• Treat wounds, change wound dressings, give injections, administer enemas 
• Collect specimens from patients 
• Administers medications and sets up medication dispensers.
• Measures and records vital signs
• Reports and observes changes in patient conditions to the Director of Nursing