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Job Summary
SummaryUnder the supervision of a Nurse Manager or licensed clinical leader and in collaboration with other team members, provides direct and indirect patient care in accordance with the scope of practice.
Essential Functions
-Interviews patients about current problems, medications, and allergies and reviews medical records for pertinent previous and current information.
-Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
-Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, performing catheterizations, routine immunizations, and/or nebulizer treatments and visual acuity tests.
-Participates in patient treatment regimen, including administering medications (under the supervision of a physician and registered nurse).
-Performs variety of office responsibilities: answers phones and takes messages and performs triage within scope of licensed practical nursing practice in an accurate and timely manner.
-Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
-Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
-Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Qualifications
Qualifications and Experience
• LPN professional license in Massachusetts
• Minimum 1-year previous nursing in acute care or sub-acute care setting required
• Home care experience preferred
• Effective written, verbal and electronic communications skills
• Ability to work with various computer software required and knowledge of hand-held patient care computer devices preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing, verbally and electronically • Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to the geriatric, pediatric, and/or adult population.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work with varied population • Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Strong organizational skills, ability to work independently and adapt to unpredictable circumstances
• Travel required in local geographic area
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Remote Type
Hybrid
Work Location
45 Braintree Hill
Scheduled Weekly Hours
20
Employee Type
Regular
Work Shift
Day (United States of America)
EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Home Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.
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