Description
Join UPMC Home Health and provide one-on-one care and teaching with patients and families!
This is a Part-Time position. Flexible Scheduling as available which included weekday, and weekend shifts.
Join the team that’s providing the highest quality of home health care to patients in our communities. With state-of-the-art safety protocols and the support of an academic medical center, UPMC Senior Services has demonstrated a continued commitment to keeping both our patients and our employees safe and healthy, especially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Make a true impact in your community on our home health team, where you’ll have the confidence that your care is clinically backed by a best-in-class health care system and the rewarding knowledge that you are changing lives every day.
Home health nursing can provide you with an impactful career that also provides opportunities for advancement, access to the most modern equipment and technology, and excellent benefits. Our home health nurses love the flexible daylight hours, one-on-one patient care, independence, focus on patient education, and having the ability to be true patient advocates.
Responsibilities:
Coordinates case management activities within a multi-disciplinary health care team to insure appropriate delivery of services to patients
Attends and participates in patient care conferences, team meetings and other related meetings
Performs duties and job responsibilities in a fashion which coincides with the service management philosophy of UPMC Home Health Care towards patients, visitors, staff, peers, physicians and other departments within the organization
Identifies, develops and participates in process improvement opportunities within the home health agency that will enhance the quality of the services we provide.
Supervises and teaches other nursing personnel including LPNs and Home Health Aides
Identifies, investigates and recommends solutions to organization issues. Identifies any deficits or exceptional performance issues of other nursing personnel, LPNs and Aides, and recommends solutions
Initiates, coordinates and evaluates patient and family centered health teaching
Establishes the plan of care in collaboration with the physician, patient and UM Professional in accordance with the physician orders and patient needs
Completes documentation including visit assessment, OASIS, 485 and Verbal Orders accurately and promptly on the laptop device or in written documentation while in the patient's home and within the agency's and regulatory standards
Qualifications
Graduate of an accredited
school of professional nursing required
Bachelor's degree preferred
UPMC Home Health Care approved
certification preferred
Minimum of 6 months of nursing
experience in an Acute Care Facility or Skilled Care Facility
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
UPMC approved national certification preferred.
Current Pennsylvania licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse.
CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
Act 33 Child Clearance
Act 34 Criminal Clearance
Automotive Insurance
Basic Life Support or Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
Driver's License
Older Adult Protective Services Act
Registered Nurse
UPMC is an equal opportunity employer. Minority/Females/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
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