Home Infusion RN Job Description
Home infusion RN
provides skilled nursing care for infusion patients in their home or an ambulatory infusion suite and on occasion in a patient’s home.
Home Infusion RN Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Represents self in a professional and ethical manner at all times, while representing BriovaRx , complying with all applicable company policies and procedures
Conducts patient interview, explains policies and procedures to patient/ significant others, reviews patient's chart and answers questions
Conducting a physical examination of the patient, including vital signs, physical assessment, mental status, appetite and type of diet
Chart services rendered to patients, changes noted in the patients’ condition and / or family and home situation and make revisions in nursing care plan as needed
Infuse medications on a regular basis in patient’s home setting including monitoring and tracking vital signs, performing procedures such as IV placement, phlebotomy, and medication administration via peripheral infusion device
FULL-TIME FIELD RN WILL ASSUME ON-CALL RESPONSIBILITY
Provide patient and caregiver training on therapy, monitoring, and side effects
Maintain and grow facility customer relationships and provide responsive customer service with assigned accounts
Chart services rendered to patients, changes noted in the patients’ condition or family and home situation and make revisions in nursing care plan as needed
Have a uniquely rewarding setting to use your exceptional management and nursing skills
Home Infusion RN Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Home Infusion RN
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BLS, PICC, IV, PHN, ONS, INS
Education for Home Infusion RN
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the home infusion RN job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, Associates, Graduate, Health, School of Nursing, Science, Education, Patient Care, Leadership, Management
Skills for Home Infusion RN
Desired skills for home infusion RN include:
Experience with Microsoft Office and electronic medical records programs
Infusion Nursing Society standards of practice
HIPAA patient privacy and data security requirements
OSHA employee protection regulations
Policies and procedures
Joint Commission’s accreditation standards for home health and home infusion pharmacy
Nursing diagnosis
Outcome identification
Planning and communicating
Problem identification
Desired experience for home infusion RN includes:
Collaborate with the Branch Manager, Pharmacy Manager and Vice President of Operations to jointly lead daily branch operations including staffing and labor costs, budgetary and financial reporting, and other components of clinical and operational management
Manage and follow-up of all nursing programs within our branch
Monitor performance improvement indicators and any risk management activities as they relate to nursing and/or the overall branch operations
Hire, coach, evaluate, and supervise all nursing colleagues
Provide clinical support to the sales team as it pertains to the production of new clinical programs and/or marketing activities to physicians, nursing agencies and referral sources
Make a difference by using your clinical IV and management experience helping our patients recover in the comfort of their own home, after they leave the hospital
Home Infusion RN Examples
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Home Infusion RN Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of home infusion RN. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for home infusion RN
- Be a quick change agent
- Provide a broad range of infusion therapies in our patients’ homes
- Make a difference by using your clinical IV experience and personal touch to assist our patients recover in the comfort of their homes
- Have excellent written and verbal customer service skills in order to interact with the patient, physician, pharmacist and other partners
- Challenge your clinical nursing (RN) skills by receiving continuous training on leading edge technology and clinical requirements in specialty infusion
- Additional licensure may be required in multi state service areas * Have excellent written and verbal customer service skills in order to interact with the patient, physician, pharmacist and other partners
- Have at least two years clinical management experience and three years infusion experience
- Participate in on call and holiday rotation as indicated by business and staffing needs
- Complete all required clinical documentation thoroughly and timely, including nursing plans of care (POC), plans of treatment (POT), visit notes, clinical summaries, medication profiles, discharge summaries and any updates provided to members of the patient’s care team, obtaining patient and/or caregiver signatures on relevant consents and required forms
- Comply with all State and Federal regulations and laws, including employee health and safety protections mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), patient privacy and data security required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), all home infusion standards of practice
Qualifications for home infusion RN
- Drive throughout your work day to see patients in private residences, within a designated region or see patients in the Ambulatory Infusion Suites
- Drive throughout your work day to see patients in private residences, within a designated region
- Evaluate patient care assessment of documentation by joining your nurse team on their visits
- You will also carry a case load of patients and participate in on call as indicated by staffing and business needs
- Assures that departmental staff complete orientation, maintain clinical competence, participates in continuing education and are evaluated in a timely manner
- Manages employees through establishing performance goals, allocating resources and reviewing policies for the department
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of home infusion RN. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for home infusion RN
- Assures departmental understanding, implementation and compliance with all aspects of the company’s Performance Improvement Program
- Able to travel up to two hours each way, on occasion for a patient visit
- Provide direct nursing services and case management related to infusion therapy for patients in the home, clinic, or alternate living site
- Accomplish direct nursing goals through collaboration and coordination with various providers, the patient and/or caregiver, the physician and the payor
- Perform services which are provided in the states of Oregon and Washington (southwest region)
- Carry a case load of patients and participate in on call as indicated by staffing and business needs
- May provide education regarding BriovaRx Infusion Services, for both internally and external customers
- Willing and able to travel up to two hours each way (on occasion) for a patient visit
- Establish and maintain positive clinical rapport with all patients and their families, representing BriovaRx including working directly with patients and their families, maintain contact and clinically monitor all patients providing direct infusion therapy services
- Establish and maintain all clinical documentation including Plans of Care / Treatment (POC / POT), Clinical Summaries, medication changes and updates for BriovaRx pharmacy
Qualifications for home infusion RN
- Strong clinical knowledge and skills
- Leadership and management ability and skills
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in medical-surgical in an acute care setting or two (2) - four (4) years of experience in home health or infusion therapy
- Thorough knowledge of teaching/learning principles
- Able to perform complete physical, psychosocial and spiritual assessments
- Able to learn to operate a laptop computer to perform clinical documentation and keyboarding or typing skills
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a home infusion RN. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for home infusion RN
- May provide education regarding BriovaRx Health Solutions services, for both internally and external customers
- Be able to travel, up to two hours each way (on occasion) for a patient visit
- Be able to work up to three Saturdays a month
- Be able to work between 11am and 7pm
- Make a difference by using your management experience to support field RNs, as they help our patients recover in the comfort of their own home, after they leave the hospital
- Patient assessment and reassessments
- Caregiver teaching
- Development and revision of the Plan of Care and Plan of Treatment
- Monitoring patient response
- Provides pre-discharge patient assessments when appropriate
Qualifications for home infusion RN
- Ability to be flexible with multiple daily schedule changes as patient referral needs are prioritized
- Ability to adjust teaching style to the age/needs of the patient and/or family
- Demonstrated ability to teach patient/ family the technical infusion home care without additional stress
- Preferred experience in Home Health Nursing, Pediatric and Well Child Nursing, Oncology and Hospice Nursing, IV Therapy Nursing, Intensive Care Nursing
- Current knowledge of Vascular Access Devices (VAD’s)
- In compliance with the Washington State Patrol Identification and Criminal History Section a criminal history background check is required for this position, based on assigned duties
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Home Infusion RN Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a home infusion RN. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for home infusion RN
- Supports the marketing efforts of the center by assisting the sales team and providing educational programs to referral sources as requested
- Takes on-call responsibility as assigned to provide 24-hour availability
- Driving is required to travel to various locations during the work day
- Receives, evaluates, accepts and executes the initial patient intake process to assure that patient verification, assessment, teaching and the ongoing scheduling of nursing services occur in a timely manner
- Reviews patient chart for admission criteria, assessing patient’s needs will be met, therapy is appropriate and environment is safe
- Assures timely communication with other company personnel, and outside providers, especially physicians and other agencies, to assure the quality and continuity of patient care
- Ability to establish and maintain positive clinical rapport with all patients and their families, representing BriovaRx including working directly with patients and their families, maintain contact as per company policy and protocol and clinically monitor all patients providing direct infusion therapy services
- Communicates coordination of care with alternate providers (AIS, hospice) and documents communication
- Completes all required patient care documentation and reports accurately and in a timely manner, according to internal and external regulatory requirements
- Tracks schedule of visits
Qualifications for home infusion RN
- Certification in infusion therapy preferred
- Must be comfortable navigating throughout metro area (mileage reimbursed at current IRS rate)
- Home Infusion experience strongly preferred
- MS Office Applications – Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Analyze reporting data trends within team relative to quality to ensure efficiency and productivity requirements are maximized
- Strong IV insertion skills
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Home Infusion RN Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of home infusion RN. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for home infusion RN
- Collaborative relationships involving agencies delivering services on behalf of / or in conjunction with BriovaRx , including nursing agencies in a contracted relationship, patient, families, significant caregivers, and other healthcare team members
- Assist in securing and maintaining licensure and accreditations warranted by BriovaRx , including required Home Health Licensure, JCAHO, and any other licensure or credentialing as necessary
- Compliance and adherence to State and Federal regulations and laws, JCAHO, HIPAA, CPR, and infusion pharmacy and nursing licensure accepted standards of practice
- Participates in staff meetings with nursing and pharmacy
- May provide education regarding BriovaRx services, for both internally and external customers
- May work in office or alternate settings including home setting
- Excellent driving record Maintains professional and automobile liability insurance
- Required to participate in afterhours on call responsibilities
- May be asked to participate in cross training of the various clinical functions in order to function in multiple roles as required
- Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the physical and emotional needs of patients requiring IV therapy
Qualifications for home infusion RN
- Proven leader in a clinical operations environment
- PICC training desired
- INS/ONS certification preferred
- Continuing education necessary to maintain current licensure required by state or professional organization
- Minimum of two (2) years current nursing experience in a clinical specialty involving infusion therapy, including patient assessment skills, venous access skills, and emergency patient care
- Must be able to assume a flexible work schedule