ABOUT THE COMPANY
Founded in 1996, Nightingale Home Health Care is a team of dedicated health care providers who make each patients experience as positive and comfortable as possible. Nightingale Home Healthcare makes sure that our patients health is our prime concern. Nightingale Home Healthcare has withstood the storms in the health industry by sticking to its one principle: Our clients come first!
Building around this principle is a team of dedicated health care providers who will make you experience - The Nightingale Experience - we are never satisfied until you are. Sure we have the usual problems of any other business, but every problem takes backstage to our clients. We strive hard in every manner to make sure that your health is our prime concern.
position description
Physical Therapist for Growing Home Health Agency
At Nightingale we live by the simple rule that our patients come first. We are currently interviewing for our Las Vegas and Pahrump territories.
Some of your job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Responsible for supervising/training personnel such as PTAs or HHAs.
- Following receipt of doctor’s referral, the therapist is responsible for evaluating the patient within 72 hours of written referral.
- Will provide therapy services as outlined in the Plan of Care.
- After evaluating the patient, the therapist is responsible for planning administering and supervising the PTA and HHA in accordance with the treatment plan.
- Will communicate with the referring physician and member of the rehabilitation team regarding the patient’s total treatment program.
- Will maintain accurate daily records of treatments given to patients.
- Will provide in-service education to facilities, support staff, students and community.
- Will follow established policies and procedures of Nightingale Home Healthcare.
- Charts those services the Therapist has rendered to the patient, notes changes in the patient’ condition and/or family and home situation, makes revisions in the care plan as needed, records supervisory visits, evaluates patient care and progress and closes charts of discharged patients by preparing Discharge Summaries and obtaining Discharge orders.
- Maintains confidentiality of client’s situation, records and services provided according to HIPPA regulations
- Evaluates the effectiveness of his/her therapy service to the individual and family.
- Consults with the attending physician concerning alterations of the plan of treatment.
- Submits all patient notes and/or visit records on a timely basis.
- Intermediate Computer skills required as we are paplerless!
You must have:
Some of Our Benefits:
- 100% paid mileage from patient to patient
- 401k and profit sharing
- Paperless documentation (we provide the computer or the palm pilot)
- Paid Training
- And much, much more!
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