After Hours Weekend LVN/RN Hospice On-Call

Nova Hospice; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nova Hospice is seeking an RN or LVN for after-hours weekend triage and home-visit duties in Texas. You will join a collaborative after-hours team and be responsible for triage, admissions coordination, and patient visits outside regular hours.

Responsibilities include wound care as directed by the RN Case Manager, ensuring timely communications with PCP, and coordinating care with multiple providers. A valid Texas RN/LVN license and driving is required.

Qualifications

• RN with current licensure to practice in Texas.
• Demonstrates strong communication and public relations skills.
• Ability to assess patient needs and direct care accordingly.
• Valid driver's license and reliable vehicle with insurance.

Responsibilities

• Available to triage and see a patient within Friday 5pm–Monday 8am schedule.
• Conduct patient visits and gather information for the RN Case Manager.
• Perform treatments, including wound care, as directed by the RN Case Manager.
• Assist in identifying discharge-planning needs.
• Report changes in patient condition to the PCP.
• Order medications, DME, and other supplies as needed.
• Participate in quality assessment and performance improvement activities.
• Coordinate admissions outside normal business hours with Admissions Team.
• Ensure smooth transition to hospice with education and care coordination.

Skills

Communication skills

Autonomy

Flexibility

Public relations

Education

RN license

Job description

After Hours Weekend LVN/RN ~ Friday 5pm to Monday 8am for Triage and Home Visits

We are currently recruiting for our hospice's after-hours nursing team. As an after-hours nurse, you are never alone. You work with other members of the after-hours team in coordination of visits to patients who are in need of care outside our normal business hours. Our after-hours team is scheduled on Friday at 5pm until Monday at 8am. During your weekend on, the expectation is simply that you are available if a need arises outside of normal business hours with one of our patients. If there are no needs, you are free to spend your time how you like, as long you are able to commute to a care need in a timely manner.

Responsible for managing all aspects of the patient intake process after hours, including managing the members of the intake team, establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers and referral sources, responding to customer requests and concerns, and managing the insurance verification and authorization processes.

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities

• Available to triage and see a patient within the Friday 5pm to Monday 8am schedule.
• Conducts patient visits and gathers information for RN Case Manager.
• Performs treatments, including wound care, as directed by the RN Case Manager.
• Assists in identifying discharge-planning needs.
• Reports changes in the patient's physical condition or care needs to PCP.
• Orders medication, DME and other supplies to be delivered to patient as needed.
• Participates in quality assessment and performance improvement activities.
• Works with Admissions Coordinator and admissions team to ensure timely evaluation and admission of patients to hospice, when admission is scheduled outside of normal business hours.
• With regard to admissions, ensures seamless transition of patients to hospice care by providing direct oversight of patient education and preparation for hospice care, plan of care initiation, and coordination of care with multiple service providers.

Position Qualifications

• RN with current licensure to practice professional nursing in the state.
• Demonstrates good communications, negotiation, and public relations skills.
• Ability to assess patient’s needs and direct care to meet those needs.
• Demonstrates autonomy, organization, assertiveness, flexibility and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.
• Valid Driver's License.
• Automobile in good working order.
• Proof of current automobile insurance.

When you join Nova Hospice, you become part of a specialized team professionals who provide comfort and support to patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments. We are a family owned and operated Hospice providing hospice services to patients and their families in multiple cities throughout Texas. We embrace excellence in all that we do and strive to continuously exceed the expectations of the patients and families we serve.
People are called to Nova Hospice for many reasons, and those same feelings cause many of them to believe more deeply in their ability to deliver comprehensive care and grow their skills as dedicated professionals.
If you are looking to provide care in hospice services, the same passion for excellent care drives everything we do for these special patients. It's not ordinary here. It's extraordinary. Because our patients facing end of life deserve to live life to the fullest, and that's the way we approach our care.