Hospice RN Visit Nurse

Overview

To improve the quality of living, a culture of excellence, compassion and trust allows our team to thrive. Join an environment where everyone respects your unique skills and talents, empowering you to do your job well and advance your career. Our flexible scheduling allows for one-on-one patient time.

• Health Insurance (following month first pay period)
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off and a Pet Bereavement Day
• Paid Holidays
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance
• Long-term and short-term insurance
• Life Insurance (company provided)
• Affordable Term Life Insurance
• Access to wages on demand
• Company scrub tops after first 30 days provided
• Wellness reimbursement
• Employee engagements, All Staff Meetings, Annual Skills Training, Annual 4th of July Celebration, Benefit/Health Fair

1 am to 9 am Mon-Fri
Mileage reimbursement

To improve the quality of living, a culture of excellence, compassion and trust allows our team to thrive. Join an environment where everyone respects your unique skills and talents, empowering you to do your job well and advance your career. Our flexible scheduling allows for one-on-one patient time.

Responsible for direct and indirect patient care in meeting holistic needs of the patient as outlined in the interdisciplinary plan of care.

• Assesses patient needs and evaluates symptoms and progress through the comprehensive assessment of the patient.
• Executes the therapeutic regime of treatments, medications, and plan of care as prescribed.
• Provides holistic, patient/family-centered care, as prescribed, in the patient s residence to improve the quality of life.
• Functions within Agency guidelines for patient care productivity.
• Consults and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the patient s care.
• Initiates or facilitates referral of patient and/or family to appropriate Agency or community resources.
• Performs admissions as assigned.
• Provides supervision of LPN, Home Health, and Hospice Aides in accordance with agency policy and regulatory requirements.
• Accurately records and reports pertinent facts and observations regarding patient s condition and response to treatment. Also documents on ECF chart, if applicable.
• Reports appropriate information to the case manager, and the interdisciplinary team, by ensuring verbal and written reports are clear, concise and timely.
• Documents problems, nursing assessments, care provided, care interventions and patient and family outcomes in the clinical record at the point of care.
• Documents LPN, Home Health and Hospice Aide supervisory visits, and related follow up, no less frequently than every 14 days.
• Assures the ECF chart’s Agency section contains necessary information for Agency/ECF compliance, if applicable.
• Teach patient (or ECF staff as applicable) self-care.
• Teaches those parts of patient care appropriate for each family to provide.
• Teaches indication, side effects, and contraindication of all medications.
• Assists the patient’s family (and ECF staff if applicable) with understanding the illness, dying process, plan of care, and needs of the patient.
• Committed to an Agency resolution against fraud and abuse.
• Knowledgeable in hospice philosophy, LCD, and state and federal rules and regulations.
• Arrives at work and meetings on time and ready to work.
• Respects confidentiality of patients/families and other Agency employees.
• Attends nurses’ meetings, educational meetings/conferences for professional growth as required.
• Participates in nursing validations as required.
• Participates in an agency infection control plan.
• Sees change as an opportunity and maintains a level of flexibility, which allows for adaptation to new ways of performing.
• Follows directions and policies that allow for an organizational commitment to working under time pressures without sacrificing quality.
• Performs other duties that may be assigned.

• Possesses the ability to perform the following tasks for varying periods of time: standing, walking, sitting, lifting objects up to 75 lbs., pushing/pulling objects up to 200 lbs., climbing stairs, stooping, kneeling, twisting, bending,…