Job Description
Job Description
We are seeking Licensed Nurses to provide compassionate care for a disabled patient due to a spinal cord injury. The patient is in his early 50’s and requires medication management and assistance with his daily living activities. This role requires a nurse who can work cooperatively with a home health aide to provide excellent medical care while fostering a positive, engaging environment for the patient’s emotional and psychosocial well-being.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer medications and manage treatments as prescribed, including but not limited to, catheter care, wound care, and colostomy care.
- Monitor patient vital signs and health status, documenting changes and communicating often with the healthcare team.
- Observe medical supplies and participate in ordering when necessary.
- Assist scheduled home health aides as needed with transfers, feeding, and daily living activities.
- Manage daily schedule and accompany patient and home health aide to medical appointments and social events.
- Promote a positive and supportive environment to enhance the patient’s emotional well-being.
- Encourage participation with home exercise programs directed by licensed therapists.
- Communicate effectively with the patient, caregivers and health care team to ensure coordinated care.
- Efficiently utilize an Electronic Medical Record system and complete documentation accurately/timely.
Company DescriptionEmpathy Care, Inc. has been a locally owned and operated home health care provider for over 30 years in Palm Beach and Broward counties. Proudly, Empathy Care, Inc. was named one of the Top Home Health Agencies in Florida (Medicare.gov, 2022/2020), a Top Agency of the 2019 HomeCare Elite®, a recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States, and acknowledged as a “Torch Award for Ethics Finalist”, by the Better Business Bureau serving Southeast Florida & the Caribbean (2018/2023).
Company Description
Empathy Care, Inc. has been a locally owned and operated home health care provider for over 30 years in Palm Beach and Broward counties. Proudly, Empathy Care, Inc. was named one of the Top Home Health Agencies in Florida (Medicare.gov, 2022/2020), a Top Agency of the 2019 HomeCare Elite®, a recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States, and acknowledged as a “Torch Award for Ethics Finalist”, by the Better Business Bureau serving Southeast Florida & the Caribbean (2018/2023).