GENERAL SUMMARY **** Please Note - Driving throughout tri-county area to see patients in their homes. **** Provides leadership in the coordination and delivery of quality compassionate patient care. Utilizes the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, to provide, delegate, supervise and document care and teaching of patients and family. Effectively communicates pertinent patient/family information to health care team. Participates in finding solutions for variances from patient goals and ensures implementation of solutions. PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES PEOPLE 1. Provides leadership in the professional practice setting. 2. Supports and contributes to the professional development of peers and colleagues. 3. Actively participates in the shared governance process to promote nursing practice. 4. Delegates tasks and communicates plan of care to assistive personnel in a respectful professional manner. 5. Promotes a healthy work environment through promotion of professional communication standards, commitment to co-workers, and positive problem resolution. + 1. Partners with a dedicated hospitalist team, a Recovery Care Coordinator and other ancillary personal and suppliers to provide comprehensive and timely acute level care in the patient’s home. 2. Anticipates and exceeds patients and customers’ expectations that meet all elements of the Henry Ford Experience. 3. Identifies services and care improvement ideas and act on them to create excellent customer experiences. 4. Demonstrates, supports, and assumes personal accountability for consistently upholding team members to the standards across the System and adhering to HFHS policies and procedures. 5. Recognizes the unique contribution all health care team members contribute to the patient experience. EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED • Requires graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred. • Requires clinical knowledge and analytical abilities necessary to formulate effective nursing care plans. • Requires the ability to perform a wide variety of professional nursing services. • Requires the ability to effectively communicate with patients, families, and hospital personnel. CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURES REQUIRED • Current licensure by the Michigan State Board of Nursing. • Valid driver’s license. PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS • Work in a health care setting which may be the patient’s home with possible exposure to communicable diseases. • Works in the patient’s home which is an uncontrolled environment. • Drives to and from the patient’s homes located in the Detroit Metropolitan area in varied weather and traffic conditions. • Must possess a current driver's license, a satisfactory driving record and reliable transportation. • Requires frequent bending and lifting to perform job duties. Additional Information + Organization: Community Care Services + Department: Hospital at Home - Team A + Shift: Day Job + Union Code: Not Applicable Additional Details This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above. Overview Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers . Benefits The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits. 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