Home Health Nurse

Company: Community Caregivers
Location: Cuyahoga Falls
Posted on: June 19, 2022

Job Description:

The RN Case Manager works in patient homes in the community, seeing 4-6 patients daily depending on visit type. The RN Case Manager assesses, oversees, educates, and administers treatments for patients based on diagnosis and acuity under the supervision of a clinical Director of Nursing and direction of the ordering Physician. RN Case Managers create thorough Plans of Care based on individual patient needs, and always strive to maintain patient safety, avoiding unecessary hospital admissions.The RN Case Manager recognizes the need for interventions and communicates on change in patient status or other events with care team, including case managers, physicians, family members, home health aides, therapists, or others. The RN Case Manager has daily communication with the Director of Nursing, and stops into the office once per day (or has phone conference with DON if not able to).The RN Case Manager follows documentation timelines and completes documentation on EMR software, and also fulfills Electronic Visit Verification requirements as needed. The RN Case Manager should be able to send emails, operate laptop computers and various software including Microsoft Office, utilize the internet, copy machines, fax machine, scanner, Adobe, phone systems, and others.The RN Case Manager is part of a team of nurses that rotates a week of on-call every 5-7 weeks. On call responsibility for our single-site, family-owned agency is generally low volume with the majority of on-call weeks requiring assistance via telephone and nothing in the field. On-call duty is paid on top of the agreed upon salary, even if no calls are received during your week. If a field visit is performed, additional payment is added on top.

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