Location: Manhattan, NY

• Under the direction of the supervising Assistant Director of Nursing in Community Care, Provides community-based professional nursing care to patients in group and private homes, as well as those without housing across New York City.
• Diagnoses and treats responses to actual or potential health problems by means of nursing methods and techniques such as case-finding, health teaching, health counseling and the provision of care supportive to and restorative of life and well-being.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the patient’s plan of care.
• Provides direct skilled nursing care and observes and instructs the patient in their place of residence.
• May coordinate services of other caregivers.

• Provides services requiring substantial and specialized nursing skill, in accordance with the plan of treatment signed by the physician and makes initial evaluation visits to clients with medical illnesses, chronic diseases, behavioral health disorders, etc.
• Identifies and distinguishes between physical and psycho-social signs and symptoms.
• Selects and performs those therapeutic measures which are essential for effective execution of the nursing regimen for assigned patients/clients.
• Develops, implements and continuously evaluates the nursing regimen for assigned patients/clients.
• May perform assessment of behavioral health needs, wound care, catheter insertion, medication teaching, diabetic care, patient/family education and counseling and aseptic technique.
• Completes comprehensive patient assessments and develops, prepares and maintains individualized client care progress records, including required Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) documentation.
• Records and maintains nursing care plans and progress notes on patients/clients to ensure continuity of care and initiates, develops and implements revisions as needed.
• Interprets and reports responses of patients/clients to appropriate members of the health team and makes referrals to other disciplines in collaboration with physician, client and family, as appropriate.
• Coordinates the total plan of care with other health team members to plan a comprehensive patient care program and initiates client care conferences, when needed.
• Maintains continuity of client care by liaising with other health professionals assigned to the client including reporting signs, symptoms and changes to the patient’s condition to appropriate parties.
• Determines and assigns those components of the nursing regimen which may be carried out by allied nursing personnel, including home health aides and communicates plan of care changes to aides and schedulers, as needed.
• Provides teaching, guidance and direction to allied nursing personnel in rendering patient care.
• May assist with orientation of new personnel.
• Participates in departmental and interdisciplinary conferences pertaining to policies and procedures affecting nursing practice.
• Participates in development and maintenance of a system of evaluation of nursing care, practices and procedures, including evaluation of nursing personnel.
• Interprets philosophy and objectives of agency and Nursing Department to patients/clients, families and other groups.
• Maintains professional competence through participation in continuing education and other appropriate learning experiences, including agency provided in-service programs.
• Participates in internal/external quality assurance/performance improvement (QA/PI) activities, programs, and training, as required.
• Performs other professional nursing activities and related duties, as delegated by nursing service administration, including clinical record reviews.
• Provides individualized skilled Nursing care to the patients requiring part-time intermittent professional nursing service through the use of the nursing process.
• Provides assessment of patient and develops a plan of treatment and care with ongoing evaluation of patient/family needs for other services.
• Provides professional nursing services as outlined in the patient's plan of treatment and authorized by patient's physician, and provides emergency treatment as needed.
• Records physical, social, psychosocial and environmental needs of the patient.
• Provide ongoing monitoring of the patient in the home care setting and escalates any clinical changes to the physician or non-physician provider as needed.
• Utilizes input from patient, caregiver, MD and peers to devise a Nursing Care Plan which is feasible within the physical, financial and emotional resources of the patient/caregiver and the Department of Health regulations.
• Evaluates patient's response to plan of care as necessary, consistent with physician's orders.
• Reviews and revises plan of care as necessary, consistent with physician's orders.
• Plans activities necessary for effectuating the timely discharge/transfer of patient, and notifies all appropriate parties including patient's physician.
• Authorize & coordinate all services including nursing, rehab, respiratory therapy, nutritional services, equipment, professional and non-professional staffing and support services.
• Collaborates with case managers and other disciplines regarding the patient’s progress and discharge plans.
• Demonstrates a professional attitude and ethical conduct in compliance with departmental standards.
• Involves the patient and caregiver actively in goal setting.
• Establishes and maintains a cooperative, effective working relationship with the staff, physician and non-physician providers, Case Managers and other hospital personnel, outside vendors, agencies and the community at large.
• Attends weekly to bi-monthly team meetings and participates in case conferences and case load reviews on a weekly to bi-weekly basis.
• When needed completes Physician’s Orders in a timely manner.
• Completes admission paperwork, including OASIS, Physician and Nursing POCs and progress notes within 48 hours of visit encounter.
• Reviews clinical records to ensure compliance with departmental and regulatory standards.
• Obtains written orders for all verbal orders returned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Current 2+ years of current Adult Care Home Health Nursing experience
• Looking for candidates with previous acute care experience in Med/Surg, Maternal, Child Care, Critical Care and Pediatrics. 
• Current New York RN License
• Current AHA BLS certification
• Drivers License
• EMR Experience (Include years of experience, and systems used)
• Final RTO or any scheduling requests
• Two Supervisory References from the past two years of employment

Shift: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM 
**This is for adult care. Patient range from 18 years old to 100 years old. This will be for the Manhattan borough. Patient cases can range anywhere from 5-8 cases a day. Nurse must have recent experience with at home care (traveling to patient homes and providing care at their homes.) Local candidates preferred**

Travel Hourly Pay: $30.00
Travel Stipend: $2000.00
Travel Weekly Package: $3200.00
Local Hourly Pay: $70.00
Local Weekly Package; $2800.00

Fidé is a Woman-Owned Business that focuses on providing top-notch candidates to healthcare facilities in rapid time. We are passionate about connecting talented people with amazing jobs. Our recruiters worked hard to provide thousands of nurses to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic and we continue to assist hospitals around the country with their hiring needs. We do this by developing professional relationships built upon trust and commitment.

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