This employee is responsible for all aspects of enteral nutrition care for the home tube fed patient and other medical nutrition related activities.
Job Responsibilities:
- Recognize and respect patient rights during the provision of care or services and conducting business relationships with patient and the public in an ethical manner.
- Perform assessments/reassessments of each patient's care or service needs throughout the patient's contact with the organization including physical assessments, psychosocial assessments, functional assessments, and activity assessments as appropriate.
- Formulate, revise, and maintain enteral nutrition patient care plans based on physician orders and assessment findings including the identification of patient problems/needs, goals and actions, and interventions relating to the care or service provided.
- Monitor patient's response to the care or services provided, the actions or interventions taken, and the outcome of the care or service provided.
- Educate patients with relation to their enteral feeding to facilitate safe and effective use, as well as desired care, treatment, and service outcomes.
- Provide patient care, treatment, and service in a continuous and coordinated manner, in settings appropriate to meet patient needs.
- Responsible for community education regarding all aspects of medical nutrition services provided by the company.
- Maintain and manage a minimum monthly patient admits/census.
- Promote safe and effective patient and organizational environments and feeding equipment use.
- Participate in ongoing education including in-services, training, and other activities to maintain and improve individual competence.
- Obtain, utilize, and update patient information in a confidential and secure manner for utilization in patient care applications.
- Recognize and implement infection control practices that reduce the risk of infections in patients and organizational staff.
- Drive to admit, deliver, and pick up such items as enteral formula, feeding pump(s), IV poles, related feeding supplies to patients' home or place of business.
- Record delivery information and track mileage.
- Listen to and resolve service complaints appropriate to scope of practice.
- Assist sales team in clinical presentations.
- Issue or obtain customer signature on admission, pickup, or delivery.
- Communicate, interact with, assess, and/or treat Secure Health Systems' patients/family members that may be:
- Infants (0 - 1 years of age)
- Pediatrics (1 - 17 years of age)
- Adults (18 - 64 years of age)
- Seniors (65 years or greater)
- Responsible for National On-Call, not to exceed 6 shifts per year.
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