COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE

Job description

JOB PURPOSE: Under the direction of a Nurse Manager, the PACE Community Health Nurse (PCHN) provides skilled care and routine clinical nursing assessment visits to PACE members and families utilizing all elements of the nursing process and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and agency policies. The PACE CHN primarily provides nursing visits in the member’s home in the community but can routinely visit members in the PACE center, hospitals, nursing homes, and other alternate setting as deemed necessary for care coordination consistent with the PACE model of care. The PACE CHN is a core interdisciplinary team (IDT) member who assigned to a PACE member in compliance with CMS PACE regulatory requirement. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Carries out the agency’s mission, philosophy, goals, and objectives within guidelines of Agency policy and position function. Interprets and implements the Agency’s philosophy to staff and members of the community. Assumes responsibility for assignments given, seeks supervision appropriately, performing within the limits of their education and experience. Knows and conforms to the law governing the practice of professional nursing and provides profes...