Nurse Practitioner Per Visit VHS Hospice (Bergen, Passaic, Hudson & parts of Essex County)

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Visiting Health Services of New Jersey (VHSNJ), a partnership between Hackensack Meridian Health and St. Joseph's Health, provides a comprehensive continuum of home health care and hospice services, support, and resources to patients and families in Passaic, Bergen, and parts of Morris counties. The VHSNJ multidisciplinary clinical and support teams provide high quality care to patients where they most want to be-in their homes.

At Visiting Health Services of New Jersey and Hackensack Meridian Health, we recognize our team members by offering a Total Rewards package including:  Comprehensive Health Benefits, generous Paid Time Off, Travel Reimbursement as well as an investment in your future with a 401k match and Tuition Reimbursement.

Are you a nurse who is looking for a change? Do you feel overwhelmed and spread too thin in your current job? A return to the HOME could make you fall in love with nursing all over again! Focus on one patient at a time with Hackensack Meridian Health At Home. Our nurses spend valuable and meaningful 1:1 time with patients in their homes, where they feel most comfortable. Do what you do best, with a flexible schedule in a setting with fewer distractions. 

Qualifications

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Master's Degree
• Two (2) to Four (4) Years Nurse Practitioner Experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• Hospice Experience

Licenses and Certifications Required:

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
• Advanced Practice Nurse Cetification (w/ Master's Degree).
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.

Licenses and Certifications Preferred:

• CPR certification

Responsibilities

Responsible for rendering professional nursing care to patients in their home by assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating assigned patients in keeping with organization policies and procedures, external regulations, and the Advanced Practice Act.

• Clinical decisions are made utilizing professional standards of care and code of ethics and provide for safe and effective patient outcomes.  Document clinical decisions in an appropriate manner.
• Assure assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation of patient care are in accordance with policy and procedure, Advanced Practice Act and Medicare guidelines.  Utilize a holistic manner in caring for patients/significant others.  Assure safe patient care is provided.Implement specific teaching strategies to meet goals established on the patient plan of care.  Assure appropriate teaching strategies, consistent with goals and plans, are documented in the medical chart.
• Assure documentation of assessment, interventions and planning meet the needs of the patient, family and all regulatory bodies.
• Communicate pertinent patient information to physicians and RN Case Managers.  Complete Attestation documentation per Conditions of Participation (COP) for appropriate hospice patients.  Act as liaison among physician and other members of the health care team to ensure effective coordination of care.
• Maintain awareness of new/updated standards and incorporate them into his/her nursing practice throughout the continuum of care.  Demonstrate knowledge of current practices' guidelines in documentation in the medical chart.
• Provide on-call coverage for designated shift when required.  Maintain phone contact with offices as appropriate.  Respond to call within designated time frames and physician orders.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.  Demonstrate flexibility with job responsibilities in all areas.
• Adheres to HMH's Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
• Lifts a minimum of 50 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 50 lbs. and stands a minimum of 4 hours a day.