Travel Nurse RN - Home Health - $2,392 per week in Kaneohe, HI

Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) Job Specialty: Home Health Job Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Days, 8 hours Guaranteed Hours: 40 hours weekly Experience: 2 years nursing experience required; 6 months of home health experience required; Travel experience required License: Active and clear driver's license and car insurance required; Hawaii license required Certifications: COVID and FLU vaccine required, no declinations accepted Must-Have: Homecare Home Base and OASIS knowledge Job Description:

• Provide excellent patient care through collaboration, development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program.
• Act as a liaison between the patient, family, nurse, physicians, multidisciplinary team, and patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes.
• Serve as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items.
• Lead the coordination of patient care with other disciplines within the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Ensure the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient's clinical course, continuing care needs, and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments, procedures, and other aspects of patient care, as appropriate for acute care.
• Discuss the appropriateness of resource utilization, consultations, treatment plans, estimated length of stay, and discharge plans with physicians.
• Focus on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain and substance abuse patients, and homeless patients.
• Collaborate with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness of ongoing care.
• Coordinate the transfer of patients to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient information required for continuity of ongoing treatment and services.
• Provide oversight and collect data required for regulatory/accreditation compliance.
• Manage frequent emergency department visitors by conducting a focus study review of the previous and current admissions.
• Perform duties on rotating weekends as needed (2-3 weekends per month). Note: Ensure transportation availability for coverage in designated regions, with mileage reimbursement provided.