Overview
Full-time days
Responsibilities
- Supports, participates and works cooperatively with the director of staffing.
- Responsible for overall quality of patient care and clinical performance of nurses and aides.
- Organizes clinical operations for the care center.
- Reviews requests for services and determines patient eligibility/suitability for home care services. Works with intake in coordinating patient referrals and admissions.
- Oversees scheduling.
- Oversees payor verification and precertification requirements.
- Reviews documentation of other staff members and ensures missing, incomplete and/or untimely documentation issues are resolved.
- Assists clinicians in establishing immediate and long-term patient goals, setting priorities and developing Plan of Care (POC).
- Regularly evaluates the needs of the patient and makes necessary revisions to the plan of care in collaboration with clinicians.
- May provide direct patient care on an infrequent basis in times of emergency.
- Participates in the on-call process.
- Assists with training of staff to ensure quality care, compliance and fiscal responsibility.
- Participates in the investigation and resolution of patient/family/physician concerns.
Qualifications
- Associate or bachelors degree in nursing.
- One year of clinical RN experience in home health or hospice.
- One year of RN management experience.
- Current RN license, specific to the state(s) you are assigned to work.
- Current CPR certification.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
