Family connect in home community rn | New Orleans, LA

way, and it always has been. Founded by Louisiana's first freestanding children's hospital, we have grown into a healthcare system that is built to serve the unique needs of our communities and families. Today, we offer six hospital locations: Children's Hospital New Orleans, East Jefferson General Hospital, New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, University Medical Center New Orleans, and West Jefferson Medical Center.

We also offer a network of urgent care centers across the greater New Orleans area. With over 2,800 physicians specializing in everything from head to toe, our community can count on us to provide the right care, right where they need it. Touro Touro has been serving the New

Orleans community since 1852, and today we are the city's only community-based, non-profit, faith-based hospital. We offer comprehensive healthcare services at every stage of life, from delivering generations of New Orleans babies to providing advanced senior care including heart, cancer, orthopedic, and rehabilitation services.

Touro's footprint extends throughout New Orleans and the surrounding areas with numerous clinics, home health services, and retirement community, Woldenberg Village. New Orleans is a city that values tradition and history and prides itself on the strength and vibrancy of our local community. No institution embodies this enduring New Orleans spirit more than Touro.

Our patients and the community can count on our ongoing commitment to their health and well-being for generations to come.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Why a Great Place to Work: You're more than your job. Everyone is. And that's what makes you great at your job-all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you. At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we've built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You'll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result.

Join LCMC Health, and you'll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary Family Connect in Home Community RN Background: The Family Connects model was developed within the context of the Durham Family Initiative, funded by the Duke Endowment in 2002, with the primary goal of reducing community rates of child maltreatment (K. Dodge, Principle Investigator). The program centers on a theory-driven and evidence-based backssment of child and family strengths and needs, provided in an informal and family-friendly manner.

As a community-based program, Family Connects supports new parents in caring for their newborn(s), offers physical backssments of the mother and the baby, addresses questions about caring for the newborn(s), identifies parents' needs, and helps to identify community services or resources that can meet those needs. In addition, through this connection to resources, Family Connects helps to identify gaps in critical community-wide resources with the goal of working toward increasing needed services locally. Position Summary: A Family Connects Home Visiting Nurse provides home visiting to all families with newborns in [target area].

The goal is to support and backss family needs in 12 domains of physical and psychosocial well being and facilitate referrals and connections to community agencies to support families in these areas. The Home Visiting Nurse will work in a team environment of clinical and non-clinical staff in order to schedule, visit, and support families in the community using the evidence-based Family Connects home visiting protocol. Ability to communicate effectively with others is essential. Experience in maternal/child health, home visiting, lactation education, and fluency in Spanish desired.

Essential Job Functions: Follow the Family Connects home-visiting protocol. Keep records of client observations and activities as required. Document information for family backssments and program evaluation. Record information in real time via in home use of computerized record system. Follow the Family Connects scheduling protocol. Visit target area hospitals as needed to schedule home visits for new mothers. Provide a health and physical backssment of mother and baby in the home to determine well-being. backss family needs in 12 domains of physical and psychosocial well being, including depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence.

Exercise clinical skills in appraising situations and making decisions. Establish a trusting relationship with families during in-home visits and engage the family to establish a family support plan with goals, objectives, and activities that address family strengths and needs. Work with team to ensure appropriate referrals and connections to community resources as needed. Work in a team to assist parents in making and attending appointments for doctors, social service agencies, etc.

Act as a liaison between families and other community agencies, serving as family advocate as required. Apply working knowledge of parent-child interaction, child-maternal health, child development, and child abuse/neglect to help families improve parenting skills, increase parenting supports, reduce stress, and address needs of parents; assist in creating a health plan for entire family. Maintain eight open visit slots and conduct and document at least six home visits per week. Respond to client needs through flexible scheduling of home visits, including occasional home visits during evening or weekend hours.

Apply effective time-management skills, organization, and multitasking skills. Documentation is expected to be done and letters sent out within 48 working hours of the visit. Work cooperatively as an active member of the Family Connects team by attending weekly team meetings, clinical supervision, staff meetings, and other meetings as required. Support and encourage development of other staff and of the Family Connects Program. Minimum Requirements: B. S. degree in nursing with current RN license, or B. A. degree in another field with current RN license, or A.

S. degree in nursing with state-level RN, and at least one year of relevant nursing experience. Must have and maintain current or compact licensure in the state of North Carolina. Must maintain current CPR certification. Must have a valid driver's license and an automobile for use in making home visits. Ability to work in a team with clinical and non-clinical staff. Ability to work with culturally diverse populations. Ability to move or lift at least fifty pounds. Ability to work with nurse supervisor to implement a practice improvement and clinical development plans. Ability to work on weekends, as required Proficient and comfortable using laptops as part of in-home backssment and intervention.

Preferred skills include (a) Spanish language proficiency, (b) clinical experience related to domestic violence, substance abuse and/or depression, (c) one or more years of experience in child/maternal health, social work, or other related field, and (e) Certified Lactation Educator or Consultant This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.

Touro Infirmary reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. Touro Infirmary is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, interaction, national origin, interactionual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. WORK SHIFT: Variable Hours (United States of America) This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work.

This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary. LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, interaction, national origin, interactionual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application for Employment It is the policy of all member hospitals and facilities of the LCMC Health System (Louisiana Children's Medical Center, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, Touro Infirmary, University Medical Center New Orleans, New Orleans East Hospital, and West Jefferson Medical Center as well as its centers of health care and physician services, East Jefferson General Hospital, Woldenberg Village, Crescent City Physician Inc.

and New Orleans Physician Services) to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, interaction, age, national origin, citizenship, marital status, gender identity, interactionual orientation, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected status in regard to any position for which the employee or applicant may qualify.

Instructions to Applicant You must fully and accurately complete the Application for employment. Incomplete applications will not be considered. LCMC Health and its members may use the information given in the application to investigate the applicant's previous employment and background. The Application for Employment will be considered inactive after 180 days. If you wish to be considered after that time, you must complete a new Application for Employment.

If you are hired, proof of citizenship or immigration status will be required to verify your lawful right to work in the United States. For more details: jobs-search. org/legal_new-orleans-c433268/family-connect-in-home-community-rn-new-orleans_i1959780584