Job Description

Job Location Alburquerque, NM 87109 Position Type Part Time Education Level 4 Year Degree Travel Percentage Road Warrior Job Shift Any

"Making a difference: It's what I do."

As a Pediatric Home Health Nurse, you will be responsible for providing specialized nursing care to pediatric patients in the comfort of their homes. Your primary focus will be on promoting and maintaining the health and well-being of our patients who require medical attention due to chronic illnesses or disabilities. You will work closely with the patient's family, caregivers, and other healthcare professionals to ensure a patient-centered, compassionate and high quality approach to care.

FT/PT/PRN Shifts available in Albuquerque/Rio Rancho/Santa Fe/East Mountains

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Spend quality time with each patient. Provide companionship and comfort and medical care to children with special needs.

- Expand and improve on your nursing, communication, and assessment skills with unique and fun implementation of interventions and treatments.

- Simple and straight forward charting on one patient per day. NO double or triple redundant documentation.

- Work under the supervision of a Pediatric Supervisor and in collaboration with parents, physicians, therapists, and other caregivers.

- Provide one on one patient care to a child in need of compassionate skilled nursing care.

- Provide home and community-based treatments and therapies in a comfortable and welcoming environment.

- Assess, provide interventions/treatment, and evaluate based on knowledge and experience with familiar patients and their unique medical needs.

- We have flexible hours, a great family atmosphere compassionate and caring management to help make you feel welcomed and valued. We work around your family’s schedule and needs.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience

• Current New Mexico or Compact RN/LPN license
• CPR (BLS) Certified
• Licensed and insured driver
• Current TB test or Chest X Ray within the last 10 years
• Experience with G-Tubes, Trachs preferred but not required.
• New graduates encouraged to apply
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, basic math skills; nursing skills per competency checklist.
• Current health certificate and TB test must be kept on file.
• Valid drivers license, auto insurance, CPR card to be kept on file.
• Criminal background check must be performed before hire.
• Complete and pass skill evaluation test.

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of this job, the employee is required to perform job related duties which may require lifting; standing; bending; transferring; stooping; stretching; walking; pushing; pulling; talking; hearing. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.