RN Home health - AdventHealth Tampa

Location Address: 3100 East Fletcher Avenue Tampa, Florida 33613

Top Reasons to Work at AdventHealth Tampa

• Up to $10,000 sign on bonus and additional relocation assistance
• Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute, known across the country for its advances in cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and research.
• Surgical Pioneers – the first in Tampa with the latest robotics in spine surgery
• Building a brand new, six story surgical and patient care tower which will ensure state of the art medical and surgical car for generations to come
• Awarded the Get With The Guidelines – Stroke GOLD Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association and have been recognized as a recipient of their Target: Stroke Honor Roll for our expertise in stroke care. We have also received certification by The Joint Commission in collaboration with the American Stroke Association as a Primary Stroke Center.

Work Hours/Shift:

• Full time days

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Demonstrates knowledge of home health care services and Medicare regulations/Conditions of Participation
• Maintains patient confidentiality both on and off duty.
• Comply with all department policies, procedures, practices and standards of care.
• Performs a comprehensive patient assessment, develop and implement an individual patient care plan based on ongoing interpretation of physiological, psychological, sociological deficits affecting the state of health of the patient.
• Coordinates the activities of health team members to provide comprehensive care and continuity of services and conducts team meetings.
• Supervise and plan Home Health Aide activities appropriate to individual patient care requirements and in accordance with department policy.
• Report pertinent observations to attending physician, change patient care plan as directed.
• Provide patient education, medication administration, wound management, infusion management, ostomy management, etc., perform appropriate dressing changes as ordered by physician while utilizing appropriate hand hygiene practices and obtains orders for all products used.
• Displays flexibility in accepting assignment changes and readily accepts assignment and patient care responsibilities including participation in weekend/after-hours coverage and call rotation.
• Develop professional and clinical skills through attendance at staff development meetings, pertinent educational activities and professional affiliations.
• Additional duties required.

What You Will Need:

• Graduate of an approved school of professional nursing
• Minimum of (1) year of clinical experience in Medical/Surgical nursing
• Current Florida licensure as a Registered Nurse
• Current BLS
• Valid Driver’s License

Job Summary:

Perform the initial assessment of the patient and caregiver abilities for the appropriateness of and acceptance for home health services; establishment and periodic review of the plan of care; implementation of medical treatment when ordered; referral follow-up, provision of, evaluation of and supervision of care; coordination of services given by other health care providers and documentation of all activities and findings.  Completes documentation according to Organizational Policies and Regulatory guidelines, performs home visits as ordered.