RN - Private Duty Nurse | 80 hours Per Diem per month at ChristianaCare summary:
The RN - Private Duty Nurse provides essential overnight care to patients in a home setting, ensuring their safety and comfort while administering medications and coordinating with healthcare professionals. This role emphasizes compassionate service, fostering positive relationships with patients and their families. A Delaware RN license and prior experience in home healthcare or long-term care are preferred for candidates seeking this per diem position.
About ChristianaCare:
ChristianaCare is the one of the Mid Atlantic's largest academic health care providers and consists of 3 campuses: Wilmington, Newark and Union at Cecil County. Through our values of love and excellence, ChristianaCare is consistently identified as a regional center of excellence for cardiology, cancer and women's health services and ranked by US News & World as Best Hospital.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide overnight care while parents and caregivers sleep, ensuring the patient’s safety and comfort.
- Administer medications and other prescribed treatments as ordered.
- Coordinate care with the family, the patient’s physician and other healthcare professionals.
- Creates positive relationships by serving in a compassionate, responsive and courteous manner.
- Works Overnight and Weekends.
Requirements:
- Delaware RN license with one year experience working in a healthcare setting preferred.
- Previous Home Healthcare and Long Term Care experience preferred.
- Must be able to attend a two-week daytime orientation in our Camden office, followed by patient-specific field orientation on night shift. Also requires a mandatory weekend per month.
- Tracheostomy and ventilator experience a plus!
Keywords:
Private Duty Nurse, Home Healthcare, RN, Patient Care, Tracheostomy, Ventilator Care, Compassionate Service, Per Diem Nursing, Health Services, Delaware RN License