The RN assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the care for a designated group of patients in their home, providing palliative care and support to terminally ill patients and their families.
Requirements
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge
- Assure quality of care
- Protect patients and employees
- Document patient care services
- Maintain continuity among nursing teams
- Maintain patient confidence and protect operations
- Identify patient care requirements
- Establish a compassionate environment
- Promote patient's independence
- Maintain safe and clean working environment
- Resolve patient problems and needs
- Maintain a cooperative relationship among health care teams
- Contribute to team effort
- Ensure operation of equipment
- Maintain nursing supplies inventory
- Cognitive ability to function and concentrate on the essential and specialty functions of the job at a high level
- Achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing an essential or specialty function of the job
- Ability to think and concentrate for an entire shift
