About This Role
This Infusion Nurse II role involves coordinating and providing direct patient care in home or alternate infusion settings, ensuring patient safety and compliance with physician's plans. The nurse works under structured supervision and is responsible for developing, implementing, and modifying nursing care plans.
Responsibilities
- Initiate, develop, and implement intermediate nursing plan of care treatments, evaluating patient progress towards goals
- Organize and participate in the provision of direct patient care, perform treatments, administer medications, and educate patients and families/caregivers
- Modify plan of treatment in response to changing patient status or physician orders to achieve established or revised patient care goals
- Assess patient needs and physical status at each skilled visit through health data access and patient interview
- Re-evaluate patient needs through physical reassessment, response to therapy, and supplemental physician orders
- Obtain and clarify physician orders for plan of treatment revisions, inform physician promptly of significant changes in patient's condition, and provide written summary to physician within supplemental order
- Provide training and mentorship to Infusion Nurse I's as needed to ensure patient safety and compliance
- Provide effective and safe teaching using a patient-centered care approach for patient and family to achieve independence with prescribed therapy and care needs through active participation per plan of treatment goals
- Effectively and timely communicate with Option Care's Clinical team, medical providers, patients, and families/caregivers to facilitate continuity of care
- Prepare clinical documentation in real-time during visits and submit to the nursing department to comply with established timelines for billing optimization
- Complete all documentation legibly and apply approved abbreviations and documentation error correction practices per Option Care's policy
- Coordinate discharge planning and prepare discharge summaries with patient instructions and thoroughly report patient care needs, progress and goals when transferring care
- Demonstrate compliance with agency operations, Option Care's policies and procedures, professional standards, local, state, federal regulations/guidelines, and accreditation standards
- Maximize work efficiency through the use of computers and other automation technologies to validate plan of treatment orders, communicate patient care
About the Company
Option Care Health, Inc. is the largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider in the United States, with over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians. The company works to elevate standards of care for patients with acute and chronic conditions in all 50 states and is focused on developing an inclusive, respectful, engaging, and rewarding culture for its team members.
