Home care is gaining in popularity by the minute it seems. Whether a doctor orders professional care or an individual just needs some help with daily living, Concordia Visiting Nurses can help.

Concordia Visiting Nurses is a community-based, non-profit, home health agency based in Cabot, PA since 1997. We currently serve Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer and Westmoreland counties, but we are expanding our service area everyday. If you do not see your county, call for the most current listing.

Our goal is to deliver quality home health services, in good faith, on behalf of those who entrust themselves to our care, and to minister to the unique needs of each individual with respect, dignity and compassion. Our team includes registered nurses, medical social workers, physical, speech, and occupational therapists, intravenous, and wound care nursing, and home health aides.

We offer both private and professional services designed to promote healthy habits.

Concordia Visiting Nurses is looking for nurses to care for patients in the comfort of their own home. Paid per visit based on type of visits: regular, admission, recert, lab draw, and mileage reimbursement. Two years med-surg experience required. Prior homecare experience not necessary. Must have current PA nursing license

Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members.

Duties:
* Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements.

* Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.

* Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.

* Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.

* Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.

* Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from health care support personnel.

* Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.

* Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.

* Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.

* Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. title:nurse, registered

* Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.

* Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.

* Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

* Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.

* Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:
Clinical Skills, Bedside Manner, Infection Control, Nursing Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance