Afterhours RN - Geisinger Hospice

Optum; Danville (PA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is seeking an Afterhours Registered Nurse to deliver comprehensive hospice care for patients and families after regular business hours, including nights and weekends.

The role includes tele-triage, crisis response after hours, and initial eligibility assessments within 48 hours, with multiple afterhours visit types and thorough documentation to support patient care.

Responsibilities

• Triage patient needs over the phone until an in-person visit.
• Respond to crisis calls from patients and families after hours.
• Perform initial nursing evaluation to determine hospice eligibility within 48 hours of referral.
• Conduct afterhours visits including admissions, death, recertification, and routine visits.
• Assess patient/family physical, psychosocial, emotional, and environmental needs and reassess every 15 days.
• Document problems, goals, interventions, and patient/family response to hospice care.

Job description

As the Afterhours Registered Nurse your primary focus is to conduct comprehensive and timely delivery of hospice care for patients and their families after regular business hours, including at night and on the weekends.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Able to triage patient needs over the phone until a nurse can provide an in‑person visit
• Responds appropriately and with urgency to crisis calls from patients and families afterhours
• Makes the initial nursing evaluation in determining eligibility for hospice services, as part of a patient visit, within forty‑eight (48) hours of referral if assigned
• Competent to perform afterhours visits including admission visits, death visits, recertification visits, and routine visits
• Identifies the patient/family's physical, psychosocial, emotional, and environmental needs and reassesses them as needed, no less than every fifteen (15) days
• Documents problems, appropriate goals, interventions, and patient/family response to hospice care