Hospice House Registered Nurse

The University of Kansas Health System; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Kansas Health System – Hospice House in Olathe is seeking a dedicated Hospice House Registered Nurse (RN) to provide compassionate end-of-life care. You will deliver pain management, symptom control, and comfort care within an interdisciplinary team, supporting patients in homes, facilities, or hospital settings.

Responsibilities include assessing needs, planning individualized care, educating families, and coordinating with the care team to ensure dignity and quality of life

Qualifications

• Associate degree in nursing and current RN license.
• Hospice care experience preferred.
• CPR/BLS certification required.
• Experience with interdisciplinary teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate hospice patient care with the interdisciplinary team to meet goals.
• Provide pain management, symptom control and comfort care.
• Educate patients' caregivers and families about care plans.
• Document and communicate plan of care and changes to the team.
• Maintain accurate patient records and ensure safety.

Skills

Hospice care

Patient assessment

End-of-life care

Team collaboration

Electronic Medical Records

Education

Associate Degree Nursing

Bachelor Degree in Nursing

Job description

Position Title Hospice House Registered Nurse Olathe Health Hospice House Hospital 15310 S. Marion St.

Position Summary / Career Interest: The Hospice Registered Nurse (RN) utilizes the nursing process to provide compassionate, specialized end-of-life care for terminally ill patients, focusing on quality of life, pain management, symptom control, comfort care and dignity rather than curative treatment. Working with an interdisciplinary team (IDT), the Hospice RN creates a patient-centered plan of care, educates caregivers, and offers emotional support to patients and families. The Hospice RN supports patients and their families in homes, skilled nursing facilities, hospital based inpatient units, or hospice centers.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Coordinates care for hospice patients, often with complex conditions, by assessing needs, creating individualized plans of care, advocating and linking with available resources ensuring that comprehensive support is provided to meet the hospice patient’s unique health and social goals.
• Acts as the central point of contact with the Interdisciplinary Team and supporting services to ensure patients are connected with the right services and understand the plan of care.
• Develops, implements and evaluates plan of care recognizing change in patient condition and adapts the plan as needed to ensure care is consistent with the patient's evolving needs and wishes.
• Utilizes broad knowledge of the standards for end-of-life care
• Supports compassionate care and understanding of patients’ and families’ physical and emotional needs.
• Assesses patient's/family's readiness to learn, organizes and evaluates patient and caregiver understanding and modifies approach as necessary.
• Facilitates clear and effective dialogue between patients and other team members; explains complex medical topics to patients and loved ones.
• Performs comprehensive and ongoing assessments.
• Anticipates and intervenes in an appropriate and timely manner when there are concerns related to patient and/or staff safety.
• Provides direct patient care needs including but not limited to effective pain and symptom management, safe medication management and comfort/personal care.
• Utilizes observation skills to recognize changes in patients who may be unable to communicate
• Demonstrates strong oral communication skills to direct other members of the health care team and deliver reports to physicians and other providers.
• Demonstrates well-developed interpersonal skills to interact positively with patients and family members
• Attentive to detail to maintain accurate patient records
• Delegates appropriately according to task situation, level of expertise and functions as an independent and supportive team member.
• Consistently role models individualized therapeutic communication based upon patient, caregiver and family psychosocial, spiritual and cultural needs.
• Acts professionally and appropriately when interacting with patients, caregivers, family members, clinical and leadership colleagues
• Adheres to policies related to medication safety and medication management considerations.
• Takes a leadership role in building and maintaining an environment where all team members thrive.
• Demonstrates efficient computer skills, including electronic medical record software, email and other software platforms as provided and intended for use by the health system for all functions related to patient care delivery, mandatory programs/competencies, policies and procedures.
• Seeks out additional learning experiences within practice area to include but not be limited to department specific certifications, consultation with experts, team collaboration, in services and huddles.
• Consistently meets work schedule.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Associate Degree Nursing
• Previous Healthcare Experience

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree Nursing 1 or more years of Hospice Experience

Required Licensure and Certification

• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing upon Hire OR Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Multi-State - State Board of Nursing
• CPR/ AED/ BLS - Other BLS within 14 days

Reference checks

Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) Screening Time Type: Full time

Job Requisition ID: R-55363

Important information for you to know as you apply

The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.

See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link [e-mail].

Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

About The University of Kansas Health System

As part of the region’s premier academic medical center, The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City is a world-class healthcare provider and destination for complex care and diagnosis. We are driven by our commitment to service, continuous improvement and to the highest degree of excellence. Collaboration between physicians, nurses, researchers, educators and other professionals who share their expertise leads to exciting discoveries and life-changing treatments for the people we serve.