About This Role
Caring for patients receiving infusion therapy in their homes or alternate sites is the primary focus of this nursing role. The Infusion Nurse provides comprehensive patient care, including assessments, care planning, evaluation, and education, ensuring safe and effective treatment delivery in accordance with best practices.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct care for all assigned patients
- Initiate and maintain communications with appropriate care team members, including pharmacists, prescribers, dietitians, home patient representatives/care partners, and community resource staff
- Evaluate and educate patient/care partner 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 to ensure a safe and appropriate setting
- Develop the plan of care in conjunction with other team members and evaluate response to therapy with each encounter
- Manage schedule via company-approved platform per company policy
- Communicate any scheduling changes promptly to appropriate team members
- Coordinate patient care via approved company platform
- Participate in the nurse on-call rotation to ensure continuous nursing support services
- Document all patient encounters, communications, and care activities at time of service per Soleo policy and regulatory requirements
- Maintain strong knowledge of Soleo therapies, protocols, and clinical standards
- Ensure timely submission of plans of treatment (POT) and required clinical documents per policy and state guideline
- Work in conjunction with appropriate departments to ensure all required patient documents (i.e., consents, POTs) are completed and returned to the branch office within an acceptable timeframe
Requirements
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in good standing with the State of Nebraska Board of Nursing
- Minimum of 3 years of clinical nursing experience
- Demonstrated expertise in peripheral IV (PIV) insertion, including the ability to successfully establish vascular access on the first attempt in the vast majority of patients (90%+ success rate preferred)
- Highly skilled and comfortable with accessing and de-accessing implanted ports (PACs/Port-a-Caths) and troubleshooting common vascular access issues
- Must be knowledgeable, proficient, and have used IV access devices including IV lines, accessing ports, and administration of infusion medications (to include PIV skills, central lines, PICCS, troubleshooting infusion pumps)
- Comfortable providing infusion therapy and patient education in home-based settings
- Willing and able to travel within the service area, routinely driving up to one hour to patient locations and flexibly traveling up to two hours when needed
