RNs needed for Home Health Agency

• Identify patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirement. • Make patient visits at their place of residence. • Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families. • Provide client and caregiver health instructions by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions. • Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations. • Report and communicate daily with Supervising Registered Nurse and Physician(s). • Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations. • Resolve patient problems and needs. • Protect patients by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. • Document patient care services by charting in patient records. • Notify the Supervising Registered Nurse or Physician(s) of any changes in client’s condition and needs and of the need for a continuing aid. Specific qualifications include: • Current licensure with the California Board of Registered Nursing • Current CPR • Proof of current physical/PPD • Ability to demonstrate quick response to directions given by Supervising RN or physician(s) • Minimum one year recent experience working as an RN in a health care facility • Knowledgeable in home health regulations • Compassionate with great time management skills • Valid driver license with proof of auto insurance • Social Security Card • Bilingual Spanish, Chinese, Armenian, or Korean desired