Residential Health Nurse $55/hr in Boston, MA

Locations: Boston, MA Schedule: Monday- Friday 8am-4pm ( 40 hours/week) 2 days per week, 8am-4pm ( 16 hours/week) Qualifiers: • 1 year experience working in home health/ residential setting • 1 year RN experience • Active Massachusetts RN license • Active BLS/CPR Job Summary: Our client is a Human Services Organization looking for Home Health RN. This would be for one of their community-based service programs - you will be traveling to homes around Boston to provide patient care. Driving or use of public transportation to get around the city to visit program participants is required. For driving, mileage is reimbursed. Essential Functions of Position: • Manage the medication system, administer, and document medication treatment including filling prescription orders, sorting and preparing medication delivery packets, managing IM injection schedules and administering IM medications, and ensuring that the Medication Administration Record (MAR) and all other documentation related to medications is accurate and up to date. • Screen and monitor Persons Served for medical problems/side effects including conducting regular screening for medical conditions and side effects of medications (e.g., screening for metabolic syndrome for Persons Served taking atypical antipsychotics, and/or completing the abnormal involuntary movement scale (AIMS) assessment) and consistently monitoring existing medical conditions (e.g., blood glucose levels in diabetic Persons Served). • Communicate and coordinate services with the other medical providers by regularly contacting inpatient and outpatient medical and psychiatric care providers who are treating Persons Served either when a Person Served is hospitalized or when they have an outpatient medical appointment • Prepare, distribute, collect, review, and upload health communication forms to relay and receive information from outpatient health providers and receive, review, and upload discharge summaries from inpatient providers. • Engage in health promotion, prevention and education activities, such as assessing for risky behaviors (e.g., unsafe sex) and carrying out interventions intended to influence behavior change, assessing and intervening on health/medical risk factors or conditions (e.g., providing education and monitoring of diets specific to diabetic needs or to prevent and address obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol), tracking all age-related and family history health screens (e.g., a colonoscopy at age 50, prostate exam for men at age 50 or earlier if African-American or a family history; a mammogram for women at age 40), engaging in strategies to reduce tobacco use, assessing wellness/health management skills, and collaboratively working with the team on developing a wellness management plan or strategy. • Educate other team members either formally (e.g., cross-training) or informally (in the daily team meeting) to help them monitor psychiatric symptoms and medication side effects and train staff on safe medication delivery practices. • Assist Persons Served to develop strategies to maximize the taking of medications as prescribed (e.g., behavioral tailoring, development of individual cues and reminders) when the Persons Served agrees. • Serve as Primary Care Manager for assigned Persons Served by coordinating and monitoring the activities of the Individual Treatment Team (ITT), by assuming responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising overall treatment goals and plans in conjunction with the Person Served and the ITT. • Conduct, or contribute to, the comprehensive assessment of Persons Served. • Provide treatment and rehabilitation services to all people served by the team including skills training and support in all areas of functioning including: symptom management, coping skills, substance abuse, vocational and educational, housing, activities of daily living, benefits counseling, money management, public transportation, appointment attendance, social and recreational, etc. • Accompany Persons Served to medical care appointments when specialized medical input will likely be imparted that requires a more sophisticated medical interpretation. Requirements for the Position: • Minimum 1 year home health/community health/ residential health background - open to candidates who have worked in home health/ community health as CNA , LPN or RN. • Minimum 1 year working as an RN • Active MA RN License • Active BLS/CPR • Active Driver’s License/ Auto Insurance • Must be capable of working with large, multicultural, multi-disciplinary team, where conflicts happen. Need someone who is focused on solutions and who has the patience to work with a large body of people. • Professional writing and verbal communications skills. • High degree of personal organization, attention to detail, and time management skills. • Proficiency in word processing and other computer functions using Windows, Word, and Google Email and Apps. Pay: $50.00 - $55.00 per hour Experience: • Nursing: 1 year (Required) • Home health: 1 year (Required) License/Certification: • RN License (Required) • CPR Certification (Required) Work Location: In person