RN - Hospice

Shift: 40 hours per week Hours per Shift: Varies Experience: Minimum years of hospice experience required

License: RN license required

Certifications: Hospice and Palliative Care certification preferred

Must-Have: Ample hospice experience - Hospice on call and admissions experience - Experience using the HCHB electronic medical record system Identify the patient's and family's physical, psychosocial, environmental, safety, and developmental needs. Individualize the patient's plan of care based on the needs identified. Document problems, nursing assessments, appropriate goals, care provided, care interventions, and patient and family outcomes achieved from interventions and care provided. Assess all aspects of the patient's pain and develop an individualized pain management plan. Anticipate, prevent, and treat undesirable symptoms or secondary symptoms. Participate in the interdisciplinary team meeting to establish, review, and revise the plan of care for each patient. Exchange information, review problems, and share professional support during the team meetings. Maintain up-to-date patient records to ensure that problems, plans, interventions, and goals are accurately and clearly stated. Reflect changes in records as they occur. Teach appropriate interventions, medications, effects, and side effects to patients, caregivers, volunteers, and others as appropriate. Implement care to achieve outcomes of comfortable and safe dying, self-determined life closure, and effective grieving for patients and families. Be responsible for the maintenance of electronic medical records, assuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulations, certification standards, legal and ethical standards. Identify and address comfort care needs. Support, instruct, and educate the patient, family, and caregiver. Coordinate all patient and family services. Maintain the dignity of the dying patient. Support the patients' and families' unique spiritual and cultural beliefs. Provide holistic, family-centered care across treatment settings to improve quality of life. Consult and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and others involved in the patient's care. Provide care consistent with national standards of practice for hospice programs.