Registered Nurse - Hospice

Munson Healthcare; Grayling (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Munson Healthcare in northern Michigan is seeking a qualified RN to manage a patient caseload from admission through discharge, coordinating care with an interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities include comprehensive assessments, developing plans of care, and delivering skilled nursing services across prevention, rehab, palliative, and end-of-life needs. Requires Michigan license and vehicle for patient visits.

Qualifications

• Licensed RN in the State of Michigan.
• Experience in acute care, home care, or hospice preferred.
• Strong health assessment, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to meet Home Health and Medicare standards with background check.
• Valid Michigan driver’s license and insured vehicle for patient visits.

Responsibilities

• Manage an assigned caseload from admission through discharge using assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.
• Complete comprehensive assessments (including OASIS when required) and develop plans of care.
• Provide skilled nursing services across preventative, rehabilitative, palliative, and end-of-life needs.
• Educate and counsel patients and families on disease processes, symptom management, and self-care; coordinate with interdisciplinary team.
• Supervise LPNs and paraprofessionals; document thoroughly in EMR.
• Communicate changes in patient condition to physicians and team.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Independent judgment

Assessment skills

Education

Licensed RN in Michigan

Job description

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where peoplevacation.That’slife at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and alifestylemost people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material.To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence,teamness, positivity, creativity,and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and onlinedevelopment,and access to ourcareer hubto help you advance.

Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and freeindividualretirement counseling.

Be Well: Freewellness platform for you and your family,pluspersonalizedsupport for personal or family challenges.

Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

Job Description

A Day in the Life

Manages an assigned caseload from admission through discharge using a framework of assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.

Responsibilities include completing comprehensive assessments (including OASIS when required), developing and updating individualized plans of care, and providing skilled nursing services across preventative, rehabilitative, palliative, and end-of-life needs.

Educates and counsels patients and families on disease processes, symptom management, and self-care, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members such as Home Health Aides, Therapies, Social Work, Chaplaincy, and Bereavement Services.

This position also supervises LPNs and paraprofessionals, communicates changes in patient condition to physicians and team members, secures necessary equipment and supplies, and maintains thorough, timely documentation within the electronic medical record.

Qualifications

What’s Required

Licensed RN in the State of Michigan

Experience in acute care, home care, or hospice preferred

Proven health assessment, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to make independent judgments directing patient care.

Able to meet Home Health and Medicare standards through criminal background check and fingerprinting.

Possess current Michigan motor vehicle license, ability to drive a car and an insured vehicle capable of transport to patient homes or other offices in various weather conditions.

Additional Information

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.