Home Infusion RN Job Description
Home Infusion RN Duties & Responsibilities
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Home Infusion RN Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Home Infusion RN
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BLS, PICC, IV, PHN, ONS, INS
Education for Home Infusion RN
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Employers hiring for the home infusion RN job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, Associates, Graduate, Health, School of Nursing, Science, Education, Patient Care, Leadership, Management
Skills for Home Infusion RN
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Home Infusion RN Examples
Home Infusion RN Job Description
- Be a quick change agent
- Provide a broad range of infusion therapies in our patients’ homes
- Make a difference by using your clinical IV experience and personal touch to assist our patients recover in the comfort of their homes
- Have excellent written and verbal customer service skills in order to interact with the patient, physician, pharmacist and other partners
- Challenge your clinical nursing (RN) skills by receiving continuous training on leading edge technology and clinical requirements in specialty infusion
- Additional licensure may be required in multi state service areas * Have excellent written and verbal customer service skills in order to interact with the patient, physician, pharmacist and other partners
- Have at least two years clinical management experience and three years infusion experience
- Participate in on call and holiday rotation as indicated by business and staffing needs
- Complete all required clinical documentation thoroughly and timely, including nursing plans of care (POC), plans of treatment (POT), visit notes, clinical summaries, medication profiles, discharge summaries and any updates provided to members of the patient’s care team, obtaining patient and/or caregiver signatures on relevant consents and required forms
- Comply with all State and Federal regulations and laws, including employee health and safety protections mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), patient privacy and data security required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), all home infusion standards of practice
- Drive throughout your work day to see patients in private residences, within a designated region or see patients in the Ambulatory Infusion Suites
- Drive throughout your work day to see patients in private residences, within a designated region
- Evaluate patient care assessment of documentation by joining your nurse team on their visits
- You will also carry a case load of patients and participate in on call as indicated by staffing and business needs
- Assures that departmental staff complete orientation, maintain clinical competence, participates in continuing education and are evaluated in a timely manner
- Manages employees through establishing performance goals, allocating resources and reviewing policies for the department
Home Infusion RN Job Description
- Assures departmental understanding, implementation and compliance with all aspects of the company’s Performance Improvement Program
- Able to travel up to two hours each way, on occasion for a patient visit
- Provide direct nursing services and case management related to infusion therapy for patients in the home, clinic, or alternate living site
- Accomplish direct nursing goals through collaboration and coordination with various providers, the patient and/or caregiver, the physician and the payor
- Perform services which are provided in the states of Oregon and Washington (southwest region)
- Carry a case load of patients and participate in on call as indicated by staffing and business needs
- May provide education regarding BriovaRx Infusion Services, for both internally and external customers
- Willing and able to travel up to two hours each way (on occasion) for a patient visit
- Establish and maintain positive clinical rapport with all patients and their families, representing BriovaRx including working directly with patients and their families, maintain contact and clinically monitor all patients providing direct infusion therapy services
- Establish and maintain all clinical documentation including Plans of Care / Treatment (POC / POT), Clinical Summaries, medication changes and updates for BriovaRx pharmacy
- Strong clinical knowledge and skills
- Leadership and management ability and skills
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in medical-surgical in an acute care setting or two (2) - four (4) years of experience in home health or infusion therapy
- Thorough knowledge of teaching/learning principles
- Able to perform complete physical, psychosocial and spiritual assessments
- Able to learn to operate a laptop computer to perform clinical documentation and keyboarding or typing skills
Home Infusion RN Job Description
- May provide education regarding BriovaRx Health Solutions services, for both internally and external customers
- Be able to travel, up to two hours each way (on occasion) for a patient visit
- Be able to work up to three Saturdays a month
- Be able to work between 11am and 7pm
- Make a difference by using your management experience to support field RNs, as they help our patients recover in the comfort of their own home, after they leave the hospital
- Patient assessment and reassessments
- Caregiver teaching
- Development and revision of the Plan of Care and Plan of Treatment
- Monitoring patient response
- Provides pre-discharge patient assessments when appropriate
- Ability to be flexible with multiple daily schedule changes as patient referral needs are prioritized
- Ability to adjust teaching style to the age/needs of the patient and/or family
- Demonstrated ability to teach patient/ family the technical infusion home care without additional stress
- Preferred experience in Home Health Nursing, Pediatric and Well Child Nursing, Oncology and Hospice Nursing, IV Therapy Nursing, Intensive Care Nursing
- Current knowledge of Vascular Access Devices (VAD’s)
- In compliance with the Washington State Patrol Identification and Criminal History Section a criminal history background check is required for this position, based on assigned duties
Home Infusion RN Job Description
- Supports the marketing efforts of the center by assisting the sales team and providing educational programs to referral sources as requested
- Takes on-call responsibility as assigned to provide 24-hour availability
- Driving is required to travel to various locations during the work day
- Receives, evaluates, accepts and executes the initial patient intake process to assure that patient verification, assessment, teaching and the ongoing scheduling of nursing services occur in a timely manner
- Reviews patient chart for admission criteria, assessing patient’s needs will be met, therapy is appropriate and environment is safe
- Assures timely communication with other company personnel, and outside providers, especially physicians and other agencies, to assure the quality and continuity of patient care
- Ability to establish and maintain positive clinical rapport with all patients and their families, representing BriovaRx including working directly with patients and their families, maintain contact as per company policy and protocol and clinically monitor all patients providing direct infusion therapy services
- Communicates coordination of care with alternate providers (AIS, hospice) and documents communication
- Completes all required patient care documentation and reports accurately and in a timely manner, according to internal and external regulatory requirements
- Tracks schedule of visits
- Certification in infusion therapy preferred
- Must be comfortable navigating throughout metro area (mileage reimbursed at current IRS rate)
- Home Infusion experience strongly preferred
- MS Office Applications – Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Analyze reporting data trends within team relative to quality to ensure efficiency and productivity requirements are maximized
- Strong IV insertion skills
Home Infusion RN Job Description
- Collaborative relationships involving agencies delivering services on behalf of / or in conjunction with BriovaRx , including nursing agencies in a contracted relationship, patient, families, significant caregivers, and other healthcare team members
- Assist in securing and maintaining licensure and accreditations warranted by BriovaRx , including required Home Health Licensure, JCAHO, and any other licensure or credentialing as necessary
- Compliance and adherence to State and Federal regulations and laws, JCAHO, HIPAA, CPR, and infusion pharmacy and nursing licensure accepted standards of practice
- Participates in staff meetings with nursing and pharmacy
- May provide education regarding BriovaRx services, for both internally and external customers
- May work in office or alternate settings including home setting
- Excellent driving record Maintains professional and automobile liability insurance
- Required to participate in afterhours on call responsibilities
- May be asked to participate in cross training of the various clinical functions in order to function in multiple roles as required
- Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the physical and emotional needs of patients requiring IV therapy
- Proven leader in a clinical operations environment
- PICC training desired
- INS/ONS certification preferred
- Continuing education necessary to maintain current licensure required by state or professional organization
- Minimum of two (2) years current nursing experience in a clinical specialty involving infusion therapy, including patient assessment skills, venous access skills, and emergency patient care
- Must be able to assume a flexible work schedule