Clinical Hospice Registered Nurse (RN) FT

Alc-Health-Care-Services; Oak Forest (IL); Remote; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Vision insurance

Mileage Reimbursement - $0.60 per mile

Job summary

Alc-Health-Care-Services seeks an experienced hospice RN to plan, organize and direct home-based hospice care, drawing on community resources to meet patient and family needs in their homes and communities.

The role involves comprehensive patient assessment, care planning, medication administration, patient/family counseling, and collaboration with physicians and the hospice team to ensure comfort and quality of life on a full-time basis while traveling to patient homes.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current licensure in state and CPR certification.
• Bachelor’s degree with one year hospice care experience preferred.
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to lift and transfer patients; valid driver's license required.

Responsibilities

• Complete initial and ongoing patient and family assessments for hospice needs.
• Provide professional nursing care using the nursing process.
• Develop and revise plan of care with patient and family.
• Regularly re-evaluate patient and family needs.
• Participate in revising the plan of care as patient status changes.
• Initiate and revise the plan of care as needed.
• Use health data to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed.
• Counsel patient and family in meeting nursing needs.
• Provide health care instructions according to assessment and plan.
• Assist with activities of daily living and promote self-sufficiency.
• Communicate with physician regarding patient’s condition and orders.
• Collaborate with family/caregiver and hospice team to address emotional needs.
• Attend interdisciplinary group meetings.

Skills

Observation skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Problem solving

Nursing skills

Math skills

Education

RN licensure

CPR certification

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Job description

Seeking experienced hospice RNs!

The registered nurse plans, organizes and directs hospice care and is experienced in nursing, with emphasis on community health education/experience. The professional nurse builds from the resources of the community to plan and direct services to meet the needs of individual and families within their homes and communities.

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities

• Completes an initial, comprehensive and ongoing comprehensive assessment of patient and family to determine hospice needs. Provides a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es).

• Provides professional nursing care by utilizing all elements of nursing process.

• Assesses and evaluates patient’s status by writing and initiating plan of care.

• Regularly re-evaluating patient and family/caregiver needs

• Participating in revising the plan of care as necessary

• Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.

• Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.

• Develops a care plan that establishes goals, based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates palliative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.

• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures. Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician in the physician’s plan of care.

• Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.

• Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan.

• Assists the patient with the activities of daily living and facilitates the patient’s efforts toward self-sufficiency and optional comfort care.

• Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physicians’ orders as required.

• Works in cooperation with the family/caregiver and hospice interdisciplinary group to meet the emotional needs of the patient and family/caregiver.

• Attends interdisciplinary group meetings.

Position Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. One (1) to two (2) years of recent acute care experience in an institutional setting, and one (1) to two (2) years of recent experience with home hospice care.

• Current licensure in State and CPR certification.

• Bachelor’s degree, with one (1) year of hospice care experience preferred.

• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, basic math skills; nursing skills per competency checklist.

• Prolonged or considerable walking or standing. Able to lift, position and/or transfer patients. Able to lift supplies and equipment. Considerable reaching, stooping bending, kneeling and/or crouching. Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills.

• Must be a licensed driver with an automobile that is insured in accordance with state/or organization requirements and is in good working order.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Dental insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Flexible schedule

• Health insurance

• Health savings account

• Life insurance

• Vision insurance

• Mileage Reimbursement - $0.60 per mile after 15 mile per day deduction

Work Location: On the road