Admissions RN

About the role

The Admission RN manages all aspects of the patient intake process, including establishing and maintaining positive relationships with hospice staff, patients, nursing facilities, vendors, and referral sources.

Responsibilities

• Perform the initial patient/family physical, emotional, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual assessments to ensure and coordinate the delivery of comprehensive, holistic hospice services.
• Document all aspects of pre-admission activities, evaluation, and initial assessment thoroughly in the EMR system, ensuring all clinical, medical, emotional, psychosocial, and physical attributes are captured accurately.
• Follow CMS and agency guidelines to assist the hospice team and Medical Director in determining and supporting clinical eligibility for hospice services.
• Perform thorough comprehensive assessments and communicate findings to hospice team members through interpersonal communication and documentation within the EMR.
• Initiate discussions regarding advanced directives and code status, providing information and answering patient/family questions.
• Provide anticipatory guidance on disease trajectory and end-of-life symptom management to patients and families to empower them to cope with events as they occur throughout the end-of-life process.
• Act as a resource to introduce and arrange for the provision of complementary therapies as appropriate.

Skills

• Ability to work well independently with a moderate degree of autonomous decision making.
• Excellent multi-tasking skills and ability to move swiftly from one assignment to the next.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing assignment.
• Strong time management skills.
• Effective verbal (in person and by phone) and written communication skills.
• Competency to work non-judgmentally with patients/families of any culture, religion, socio-economic background, or lifestyle.
• Strong intrapersonal skills.
• Ability and willingness to serve individuals with any terminal illness/disease.
• Competency and excellence with computer skills/documentation.
• Attention to detail.
• Bilingual is a plus.

Work Environment

• Working conditions include assigned settings such as Hudson Valley Hospice offices, hospitals, patient/family homes, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities.
• Ability to carry up to twenty-five pounds of supplies and/or materials.
• Routine duties involve potential for direct exposure to blood or body fluids.
• Capability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the patients, including occasional weekends and holidays.
• Ability to provide transportation for self and access public buildings to provide community education.
• Ability to drive and work in winter weather including snow.

Qualifications

• Valid Nursing License in New York State.
• Valid driver’s license in New York State.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment preferred.
• A minimum of two years experience as an RN with home care or hospice preferred.
• Experience and comfort in caring for terminally ill patients.
• A basic understanding and commitment to the hospice philosophy.

Schedule

Full Time - 40 hours per week; (4) 10-hour shifts from 8:30am-6:30pm (Rotating Schedule); must have availability to work weekends and holidays when needed.

Pay

$82,000-90,000/year (FLSA: Exempt).

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Company Matched Retirement Plan.
• Annual Salary Increases.
• Hospice & Palliative Care Certification and more.