Hospice Registered Nurse - Compassionate Home Visits

Virtua Medical Group, PA; Cropwell (NJ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtua Health in New Jersey is seeking a Hospice Registered Nurse to bring the hospice delivery model into the patient's home, assessing, planning and implementing a care plan to keep terminally ill patients comfortable.

Responsibilities include monitoring vital signs, administering medications, and supporting patients and families through this transition. The RN works with the interdisciplinary team to ensure comfort, dignity, and quality end-of-life care and will travel statewide.

Responsibilities

• Perform and document nursing process - assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patients receiving care in-person at their defined home.
• Review and follow-up on family education, implemented patient care plans, and coordinated services.
• Triage, identify, and act on changes in patient condition.
• Provides nursing care, emotional support and education to patients and families.
• Assist with wound care, treatments, procedures, and comfort care.
• Administers medications and treatments as written in the patient's plan of care to obtain a level of comfort and/or relieve symptoms.

Skills

Nursing process

Assessment planning

Patient education

Pain management

Wound care

Medication administration

Crisis intervention

Team collaboration

Family communication

Job description

Virtua Health in New Jersey is seeking a Hospice Registered Nurse to bring the hospice delivery model into the patient's home, assessing, planning and implementing a care plan to keep terminally ill patients comfortable.

Responsibilities include monitoring vital signs, administering medications, and supporting patients and families through this transition. The RN works with the interdisciplinary team to ensure comfort, dignity, and quality end-of-life care and will travel statewide.