Job Description
This registered nurse conducts home health visits, administering medications, wound care, and assessments for adults and seniors. The position aids families and elderly individuals by providing skilled care at home to prevent hospitalizations, improving quality of life. Nurses follow care plans, monitor conditions, and document interventions using tablets, ensuring coordination with doctors and managers for effective management.
BAYADA Home Health Care delivers accredited services with an emphasis on reliability and compassion in home settings. The company supports work-life balance through flexible scheduling and one-on-one care, celebrating 50 years of excellence. Recognized by Newsweek and Forbes, it promotes career growth and diverse opportunities in nursing.
Roles involve making assigned visits, performing treatments, managing cases, and documenting services accurately with touch pad tablets. Nurses interact with clients, families, and supervisors, using electronic medical records for charting. A constraint is traveling to territories in Delaware County while managing independent time and adapting to various medical surgeries in a variable environment.
Full-time roles offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, mileage reimbursement, paid time off, weekly pay, direct deposit, scholarship opportunities, 401k with match, recognition programs, referral bonuses, and career advancement tracks. Perks encompass PPE supplies, infection protocol training, and 24/7 clinical support. Flexible scheduling allows for full-time or part-time arrangements with no mandates on weekends.
Responsibilities
- Follow a designated care plan in accordance with patient's needs
- Make home visits to clients in designated geographic territories
- Perform assigned duties, including administration of medication, wound care, treatments, and procedures
- Monitor clients' conditions; reporting changes to Clinical or Client Services Manager
- Follow up with, execute, and properly document doctors' orders
- Perform client assessments as necessary
- Case management and coordination
- Accurately document observations, interventions, and evaluations pertaining to client care management and services provided, utilizing a state-of-the-art touch pad tablet
Requirements
- A current license as a Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania
- A minimum of one year of recent, verifiable clinical (medical/surgical) experience
- Prior home care experience strongly preferred, but not required
- Graduation from an accredited and approved nursing program, as indicated by school transcript or diploma
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Solid computer skills; prior experience with electronic medical records (EMR) preferred
- Ability to travel to cases as assigned