Home Health Rn Jobs

• Nursing Process:
• Fiscal Responsibility:
• Champions new ideas.
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Patient Care Experience:
• Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
• Leadership:
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Team Commitment:
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice.
• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
• Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities
• Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
• Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
• Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
• Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Patient Care Experience:

• 1-year recent (within past three 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a licensed Home Health, Palliative Care and/or Hospice agency as an RN/PHN. Current California Driver’s License and a clear driving record for the past two years. Proof of automobile insurance as required by law.
• Registered Nurse License (California)

• Basic Life Support

• Position will focus on San Diego's AMCAH Program.
• Required to work every other weekend.

PrimaryLocation : California,La Mesa,La Mesa Administration Building
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
WorkingHoursStart : 08:30 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13|AFSCME|UNAC
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department : San Diego Admin Offices 1 - Home Health - Internal - Other - 0801
Travel : Yes, 25 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.