Admissions Hospice RN

About the role

Full time – 40 hours a week
Flexible to work 4-10s or 5-8s
Hours of coverage 9 am to 7:30 pm
Benefit Eligible position
No weekends, holiday or on call
Supporting Hospice patients and their families
Prior experience in admissions or hospice is preferred!

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Assesses 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.
• 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).
• Promotes 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.

Requirements

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.

Assesses 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.

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).

Promotes 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.

Qualifications

Nursing Diploma/Associate's
Supervisor Experience
No Experience
RN

Skills

Valid Driver's License
RN

Benefits

BJC Total Rewards
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 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
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