RN Hospice Float and Admissions

BJC Home Care; Glen Carbon (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider is seeking an RN Hospice Float and Admissions nurse to provide specialized care in a home setting. This full-time role involves patient assessments, care planning, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to meet the emotional, spiritual, and physical needs of patients. The position offers competitive pay within a dynamic and supportive environment, where comprehensive benefits are also provided.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Tuition Assistance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid Time Off

401(k) with company match

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid RN license.
• Experience in hospice or related field preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively with an interprofessional team.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care.
• Develop and document individual plans of care with defined goals.
• Implement and evaluate care plans in a collaborative manner.

Skills

Patient Assessment

Care Planning

Collaboration

Cultural Competence

Education

Nursing Diploma/Associate's

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing/Home Health

Job description

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Base pay range

$65,520.00/yr - $98,342.40/yr

Additional Information About The Role

Hospice RN evening position. Four -10 hour - shifts. Noon until 10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Float and admissions nurse.

Overview

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.

Hospice, the final stage of BJC's continuum of care, is a special kind of caring for patients with a life-limiting illness. Services are provided in the comfort of the patient's home or skilled nursing facility. The Hospice 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 symptom management, pain control, counseling and bereavement services for the dying. Our Hospice services include alternative therapies such as music, art and massage therapy. Our Hospice programs provide palliative care by helping patients manage their pain and symptoms while living their lives with daily peace and dignity.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Nursing Diploma/Associate's
• Nursing
  
  

Experience

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience
  
  

Licenses & Certifications

• Valid Driver's License
• RN
  
  

Preferred Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree
• Nursing/Home Health
  
  

Experience

• 2-5 years
  
  

Benefits And Legal Statement

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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
• Pension Plan*/403(b) Plan funded by BJC
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance
  
  

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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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