Registered Nurse - Visiting Staff
Location: Alabama
Description: Alacare Home Health & Hospice is in need of Registered Nurse - Visiting Staff right now, this job will be placed in Alabama. Further informations about this job opportunity kindly read the description below. Showcase all of your nursing skills! This position offers you the opportunity to use state-of-the-art technology while delivering compassionate, personalized nursing care.
Duties include:
- Patient assessments, including physical, emotional, psychosocial, environmental and educational components
- Providing skilled nursing care to home health and hospice patients in their homes
- Identifying patient needs and making timely referrals to other disciplines in collaboration with the physician and care manager
- Supervising LPNs and home care aides
- Providing comprehensive teaching to patients and their caregivers
- Timely and appropriate documentation of patient’s status
Other requirements include:
- Nursing degree from an accredited school of nursing (Diploma or Associate Degree)
- Current Alabama registered nurse license
- Comfort in communicating with elderly people who have multiple nursing care needs
- Willingness to work in home environments of patients who may have values or standards different from your own
- Facilitation of positive nurse-physician relationships
- Ability to make evaluations and decisions based on measurable or verifiable criteria
- Ability to turn, lift, carry and otherwise transport patient
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Respecting the patient’s privacy and maintaining confidentiality
- Current Alabama driver’s license and automobile liability insurance
- CPR Certification
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If you were eligible to this job, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Alacare Home Health & Hospice.
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This job starts available on: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:11:36 GMT