About This Role
This Per Diem Home Infusion Nurse position involves providing primary patient care, including assessments, care planning, evaluation, and education for patients receiving infusion therapy in their homes. You will work with a team to ensure safe and appropriate care, supporting patients in the Bronx, NY, and surrounding areas.
Responsibilities
- Provide the majority of direct care for specifically assigned patients
- Initiate and maintain all communications with appropriate care team members including pharmacists, physicians, dieticians, home patient representatives, and community resource staff members
- Evaluate and educate patient/care partner’s ability to safely administer home infusion therapy and provide additional instruction as indicated
- Evaluate the home environment where care is to be provided and identify interventions that may be required to render the home care environment safe and appropriate for the prescribed care
- Develop, in conjunction with other clinical team members, each patient’s care plan
- Evaluate patient’s response to therapy during each home visit or encounter
- Appropriately discharge primary patients and complete discharge summary within 7 days of discharge
- Develop and maintain caseload scheduling and communications on a weekly and monthly basis, updating the schedule with changes
- Document patient visit to physician or lab drawing station on calendar
- Coordinate care via live telephone conversations and/or voicemail with the team as determined by the urgency of information to be relayed
- Document all communications at the time of service
- Perform rotational after-hour and weekend on-call duties, and as needed
- Complete computerized documentation of patient visits accurately and in a timely manner
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years nursing experience with background in infusion therapy
- RN degree (BSN preferred)
- Current nursing license for the state of New York in good standing
- AIS or Home Infusion RN Nursing experience
- Knowledgeable and competent in care and maintenance of vascular access devices
- Competent in peripheral IV placement skills and port accessing (powerports, mediports, infusaports, portacaths)
- Current CPR/BLS Certification
- Own a properly registered and insured vehicle to use for patient visits
- Valid state driver’s license
- Ability to multi-task and have critical thinking skills
- Must have home infusion experience
- Must live within 25 miles of the Bronx, NY area
- Must be knowledgeable of IV access devices to include: IV Lines, ports, and administration of infusion medications