Job Description

Job Description

Access Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN Home Health for a travel nursing job in Newton, Massachusetts.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Home Health
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 10 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

*The Ariadne Labs Home Hospital team is launching a pilot randomized controlled trial to test the acceptability and feasibility of providing acute psychiatric care to patients in their homes. Presently, home hospital programs exclude patients with an active psychiatric condition; this trial will test the feasibility and acceptability of Behavioral Health Home Hospital (BHH). The BHH care model will provide a minimum of twice-a-day in-person nursing to patients, with remote rounding by the BHH Research Psychiatrist and BHH Research Psychologist. Additional clinical care team members will provide care either in person or remotely. Patients admitted and randomized home as part of the trial will need to have a caregiver present. Additional support will be able to be provided by home health aides and mental health specialists. Medication will be dispensed by the clinical care team, 24/7 monitoring will be conducted, and patients will be able to join in-patient therapy groups remotely. The BHH Research Psychiatry Nurse will be a key member of the BHH clinical care team, as they will provide in-person hospital/inpatient-level psychological treatment to patients.

Job Summary
The Behavioral Health Home Hospital (BHH) Research Psychiatry Nurse (RN) will support an innovative care delivery model, Behavioral Health Home Hospital. The program offers a subset of patients an alternative to standard inpatient psychiatric hospital admission, in which patients can receive highly specialized psychiatric-care services in their home. The BHH Research Psychiatry RN will provide quality, clinical services to patients in various settings in the community. Patient care is delivered within organizational philosophy, policy and standards of nursing and community health practice. The responsibilities are performed in accordance with Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital’s policies and standards of practice, utilizing thorough and timely electronic documentation and interdisciplinary communications. The BHH Research Psych RN is responsible for delivering patient care through the nursing process of assessment, diagnosing, teaching, planning, implementation, and evaluation of BHH patients. The BHH Research Psych Nurse can expect to see patients twice a day in person in their homes or space they are residing in during their hospitalization. Additionally, the BHH Research Nurse can expect to have up to 4 patients on service at a time. The BHH Research Psych Nurse directs and coordinates all nursing care for patients based on established clinical nursing practice standards and collaborates with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes. The BHH Research Psych Nurse will be providing hospital/inpatient-level treatment to patients in the community. This is an ideal role for someone interested in a temporary position and working on a research trial that will help broaden the treatment opportunities for patients with active acute-psychiatric conditions.

What you’ll do/Key Responsibilities
•\tPlans and Implements treatment to patients in the community independently in collaboration with a multidisciplinary psychiatric team.
•\tAccurately assesses patients’ needs.
o\tInitial assessments and visit notes accurately document provision of nursing clinical care, patient education and comprehension to ensure high quality patient care in accordance with program standards and regulatory compliance as applicable.
o\tPatient schedule is established in collaboration with others. Schedules are routinely adjusted and communicated timely and in collaboration with the patient’s home-based clinical care team and is communicated with the patient and/or families, to meet clinical care and program needs.
o\tUtilizes multiple data sources to determine actual/potential health problems and functional status.
o\tUtilizes Recovery Oriented Framework to identify patient strengths.
o\tPerforms point of

Access Healthcare Job ID #5-MGB-24741. Pay package is based on 10 hour shifts and 40 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

About Access Healthcare

Access Healthcare aims to provide superior service to our nursing family by providing around the clock support, competitive pay packages and an unmatched benefits package! Unlike other agencies, we offer a true family feel and work with you to find the placement that is right for you. We offer one of the top leading pay packages in the industry and we are ready to get you the money you deserve!

Access Healthcare was founded by two travel nurses, Danielle and Diego, who had a dream and a shared vision of creating an agency which all nurses would want to work with. Our passion has led us to where we are today as one of the top 10 agencies in our home state of New Jersey, with access to contracts in all 50 states! We encourage you to join our team and we cannot wait to get to know you!

Job Tags

Temporary work, Remote work, Shift work,

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