BILH Pharmacy Services - Field Based RN - Home Infusion Nurse - Per Diem

Join The BILH Team

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives. The Registered Nurse creates and develops patient care plans to direct the safe and appropriate administration of medication in the home or alternate site setting. Working with Home Infusion staff the Registered Nurse helps identify patients capable of successful self-administration, educates patients and caregivers on proper administration techniques and methods, coordinates discharge activities, administers or supervises administration of medication, provides IV site dressing care and phlebotomy services as ordered.

Primary Responsibilities

• Practices in accordance with the state and federal laws, rules, and regulations
• Assesses patient needs and capabilities for acceptance onto services for ordered therapies
• Provides education with patient and caregiver as a condition of acceptance onto home infusion services
• Collects necessary authorizations, paperwork, signatures when needed to support patient billing functions
• Effectively communicates with all members of patient discharge team
• Able to effectively manage patient census and demonstrate flexibility in scheduling to meet time sensitive patient needs
• Adheres to policies and procedures for medication handling, preparation, administration, disposal
• Advocates patient needs to prescribers or other clinicians through written or verbal communication
• Create patient specific care plan, documents patient progress towards goals
• Maintains accurate listing of all medications, supplements and diagnoses patient has
• Create discharge plan for patient upon completions of therapy as ordered
• Trains and mentors staff
• Participates in continuous quality control exercises, policy and procedure review, performance improvement tasks
• Take part in clinical on-call rotation for after-hours patient support

Required Qualifications

• Current licensure from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing
• Flexibility with hours worked to provide support evenings/weekends/holidays
• Current BLS certification
• 2 years of Infusion related experience required
• Valid Driver's license and auto insurance

Preferred Qualifications

• CRNI certification
• Current ACLS certification

Competencies

• Decision Making
• Problem Solving
• Independence of Action
• Written Communications
• Oral Communications
• Knowledge
• Team Work
• Customer Service
• Adaptability

Social/Environmental Requirements

• Health Care Status: HCW 3: Regular provision of service in a patient care area
• Sensory Requirements: Close work, Color vision/perception, Visual monotony, Visual clarity feet, Conversation, Monitoring Equipment, Telephone, and Background Noise
• Physical Requirements: Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift. This job requires constant walking, Endurance-working up to 4-6 hours without a break, frequent sitting, standing, twisting neck, twisting waist, Keyboard use, Reaching-above shoulder height, Reaching-below shoulder height, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 10 lbs, pushing items weighing up to 10 lbs. There may be occasional bending neck, bending waist, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using both hands.

Pay Range

$37.00 - $95.74

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled