Home Care Nurse

Description

Upham’s Home Health Care is seeking Full and Part-Time RNs to provide direct nursing care to Boston residents in their homes. Join our growing program! Flexible schedules. Full orientation provided. Registered Nurse license and car required. Bilingual English/Spanish/Cape Verdean Creole or Vietnamese preferred.
 

Duties:

• Completes initial evaluation visits, including history and physical exam.
• Regularly evaluates the patient’s nursing needs.
• Develops nursing care plan and makes necessary revisions.
• Provides health services requiring substantial specialized nursing skills including appropriate preventative and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
• Utilizes other community agencies and resources to provide comprehensive patient care.
• Coordinates additional health services provided to patients.
• Discusses changes in the patients’ condition and needs with the physician and other appropriate personnel.
• Supports the patients’ family in meeting the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Supervises Home Health Aides as required.
• Provides community consultation and health education when appropriate.
• Keeps accurate records of patients’ progress.
• Has overall responsibility for maintaining his/her patient records according to the program’s protocol.
• Participates in the regular case review meetings.
• Participates in the on-call system.
• Provides statistical data on patients as required by the program.
• Must provide a minimum of 25-30 patient encounters per week for a full-time position.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be a Registered Nurse licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Ability to work with multicultural staff and participants.
• Background in geriatric or adult nursing preferred
• Bi-lingual in English and Cape Verdean Creole is highly desirable.