Hospice Liaison Nurse

Greater Baltimore Medical Center; Towson (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Gilchrist seeks a Hospital Liaison Nurse to facilitate transitions to hospice care, coordinating with physicians, social workers, case managers, and floor nurses to ensure smooth patient handoffs and continuity of care.

You will deliver in-services and lunch-and-learns, maintain current knowledge of discharge planning, and build partnerships with hospitals and referral sources while traveling as needed. A Maryland RN license and strong communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with MD licensure or equivalent, in good standing.
• Minimum 3 years of clinical experience; hospice or acute care settings preferred.
• Current Maryland State RN license required; valid driver's license and insured vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Develops and fosters area hospital referral source acceptance and allegiance to Gilchrist.
• Implements strategies to increase admissions from referral sources.
• Represents Gilchrist with professionalism and responds promptly to referrals.

Skills

Communication skills

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Public relations

Education

RN license MD

Tools

EMR

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Email

Job description

Join the mission-driven Gilchrist team as a Hospital Liaison Nurse, where your clinical insight and collaboration skills make a real difference-and help patients and families live every moment with comfort, dignity, and purpose.

Join the mission-driven Gilchrist team as a Hospital Liaison Nurse, where your clinical insight and collaboration skills make a real difference-and help patients and families live every moment with comfort, dignity, and purpose.

Hours/Shifts

Full time/Flexible schedules: Monday-Friday only with no on-call or weekend responsibilities

Education

Registered Nurse, Associate degree or Nursing Diploma - registered nurse in the sate of MD

Experience

Minimum of three (3) years of clinical experience required. Experience in hospice, home health, critical care, emergency department, oncology, medical-surgical, or other acute care hospital settings is preferred. Candidates with other relevant hospital experience are encouraged to apply.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to work effectively transition patients and families to hospice both in the hospital, at home or at various hospice locations and nursing homes. Works directly with various professionals including physicians, social workers, case managers, floor nurses, and others. Excellent professional communication, negotiation, presentation and public relations skills are needed.

Self-directed with the ability to work with little supervision in a rapidly changing environment.

Flexibility in scheduling and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Strong clinical or psychosocial assessment and documentation skills.

Strong computer skills including e-mail, EMR, Word and PowerPoint applications.

Licensures, Certifications

Must possess current Maryland State license as a Registered Nurse.

Valid driver's license and safe driving record and an automobile that is insured in accordance with GHC requirements

Physical Requirements

Able to provide patient care or assistance that involves lifting, repositioning, moving patients and includes bending, reaching and twisting.

Ability to travel to your assigned hospital. Parking is paid by the organization.

Sufficient dexterity to utilize electronic record keeping systems, computers/keyboards and or laptops and other related equipment.

Ability to assess patient's health status using visual inspection and observation and to read medications, charts, calibration and monitoring devices as appropriate

Speech to verbally communicate to assess and impart information concerning patient status; to effectively complete patient/family teaching and to interact with internal and external health care teams.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Actively develops and fosters area hospital referral source acceptance and allegiance to Gilchrist Effectively implements strategies and tactics to increase admissions from referral sources.
• Maintains awareness of changing medical environment and industry competition.
• Represents Gilchrist with professionalism at all times & responds in a timely manner to referral source questions or requests for presentations.
• Maintains current knowledge of assigned facility's discharge planning process and builds relationships with key institutional referral sources.
• Professionally and compassionately interacts with patients, families and hospital referral sources to explain end-of-life care services.
• Delivers effective "in-services," "lunch & learns" and other presentations to relevant parties educating the medical community on GHC, end-of-life care, hospice philosophy and other related topics.
• Maintains current knowledge of Hospice Medicare Benefit and other applicable insurance information and communicates related information when needed.
• Tracks success of liaison efforts, partners with other