Psychiatric Registered Nurse - Field (Home Health)

Job Description

Job Description

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Makes initial assessment visit utilizing observation / assessment skills
• Manages medical illness per Plan of Care; performs psycho-biological interventions
• Evaluates, teaches and reviews medications and compliance; administers IM or IV medication
• Manages situational or other crises; performs assessments of potential self-harm or harm to others, and refers to the treating physicians as necessary
• Teaching and training activities that require skilled nursing personnel to teach a patient, the patient's family, or caregivers how to manage the treatment regimen would constitute skilled nursing services.
• Teaches self-care, mental and physical well-being, promotes independence and patient’s rights In determining the reasonable and necessary number of teaching and training visits, consideration must be given to whether the teaching and training provided constitutes reinforcement of teaching provided previously in an institutional setting or in the home or whether it represents initial instruction. Where the teaching represents initial instruction, the complexity of the activity to be taught and the unique abilities of the patient are to be considered. Where the teaching constitutes reinforcement, an analysis of the patient's retained knowledge and anticipated learning progress is necessary to determine the appropriate number of visits. Skills taught in a controlled institutional setting often need

o to be reinforced when the patient returns home. Where the patient needs reinforcement of the institutional teaching, additional teaching visits in the home are covered. Re-teaching or retraining for an appropriate period may be considered reasonable and necessary where there is a change in the procedure or the patient's condition that requires re-teaching, or where the patient, family, or caregiver is not properly carrying out the task. The medical record should document the reason that the reteaching or retraining is required and the patient / caregiver response to the education.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Psychiatrically Trained Nurses Providing Psychiatric Evaluation And Therapy In The Home : Psychiatrically trained nurses are nurses who have special training and / or experience beyond the standard curriculum required for a registered nurse. The services of the psychiatric nurse are to be provided under a plan of care established and reviewed by a physician.