Hospice RN - Evelyn's House

Confidential; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan with 4% contribution

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid Time Off

Adoption assistance

Job summary

BJC Home Care’s Evelyn's House in St. Louis, MO, seeks a dedicated registered nurse for full-time, night-shift care (36 hours/week) with weekend/holiday rotations. Experience in hospice/patient-family support preferred; case management and coordinating care across disciplines are key.

The role emphasizes compassionate, skilled nursing, pain and symptom management, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to deliver dignified end-of-life care in the home hospice setting.

Qualifications

• Nursing Diploma or Associate's degree required.
• Hospice/palliative care experience preferred.
• Ability to coordinate care across interprofessional team.
• Experience with EMR documentation and care planning.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all aspects of care for each patient and ensure seamless communication across the care team.
• Assess patient preferences, barriers, and spiritual/cultural needs to tailor plans of care.
• Develop, implement, and document individual care plans with defined goals.
• Promote equity, empathy, and patient-family centered care across the continuum.
• Collaborate with physicians, social workers, and therapists; update plans in the EMR.
• Monitor patient condition and adjust the care plan as needed.

Skills

Patient care

Hospice care

Team coordination

EMR documentation

Education

Nursing Diploma/Associate's

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

Full Time - 36 HoursNight Shift - 19:00 - 07:30Weekend & Holiday RotationsLocation - Evelyn's HousePrior experience in supporting patients and families in hospice setting is preferred!

BJC Home Care

offers patients and their families a complete range of home care services, including skilled nursing services, adult and pediatric hospice and supportive care, rehabilitation therapy, home infusion therapy, infusion treatment rooms, home medical equipment and high-tech respiratory care. Specialty home care programs also are available, including adult and pediatric asthma, cardiac, diabetes, orthopedic and wound care programs.

BJC Home Care provides care to thousands of patients in both Missouri and Illinois. Serving more than 25 counties, it has become the largest home care network in the region and one of the largest in the country.

Evelyn's House is the newest addition to BJC Hospice and BJCs continuum of care for patients with life-limiting illness. Evelyn's House staff are sensitive to the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill adult and pediatric patients and their families. We provide a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals and volunteers, specially trained in pain and symptom management, counseling, and bereavement services for the dying. BJC Hospice services include alternative therapies such as music, art and massage therapy. BJC Hospice programs provide palliative care by helping patients manage their pain and symptoms while living their lives with daily peace and dignity.

Evaluates the client and furnishes services requiring substantial and specialized skill, appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures, and instructions to assist the client in learning appropriate self-care techniques. When assigned as case manager, the staff nurse is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care related to that patient.

Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their values, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and population-specific needs. Develops, implements, and documents individual plans of care with defined goals in collaboration with other members of the interprofessional team and patient, family or caregiver in accordance with the established guidelines and standards of nursing care. Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care. Promotes respect, equity and empathy in interactions with diverse and vulnerable populations through care delivery (e.g. support for emotional, spiritual, and cultural preferences of patient, family and/or caregivers). Practices collaborative problem solving, service recovery and advocacy for patient family centered continuity of care. Implements care by integrating data from the interprofessional team and critical thinking in a safe and timely manner. Evaluates changes in patient's condition, informs and collaborates with family and/or caregivers, and communicates with interprofessional team as changes occur in plan of care, updates plan of care in EMR. Evaluates current nursing care to ensure evidence-based practice and quality patient outcomes.

Nursing Diploma/Associate's

• Nursing
• Nursing/Home Health

Experience

No Experience

RNBachelor's Degree

Benefits and Legal Statement

At BJC we're committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance