Home Health Rn - Lancaster - Hospice

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

• 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.

• N/A

• Registered Nurse License (California)

• Current California Driver’s License and a clear driving record for the past two years.
• Basic Life Support
• Proof of automobile insurance as required by law

• No information available at this time.

• Rotating Weekends

PrimaryLocation : California,Lancaster,Commerce Center Administration
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 : Lancaster Commerce Center - Hospice - Internal - Other - 0801
Travel : Yes, 75 % of the Time
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