AvoCare Palliative- Part Time Registered Nurse-Bilingual/Spanish

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and provide home visits for palliative care patients who have a chronic or serious illness and need symptom management and/or education
• Document in EMR- assessment, patient status, and outcome, goals of care needs, after each visit
• Ensure regulatory compliance with documentation requirements
• Adhere to HIPPA at all times
• Identify patient needs and initiate appropriate goals updating as needed
• Communicate and coordinate on a consistent basis with members of team, other healthcare providers involved in pt care and Insurance Case Managers
• Act as a liaison and advocate for PC patients admitted to the hospital
• Participate and assist in any quality improvement or other studies involving palliative care
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings and participate by providing patient updates
• Participate in regular scheduled staff meetings and inservices

Requirements

• RN or LPN with minimum of 3 years full-time equivalent experience
• Past nursing experience should be in a transferable or applicable clinical venue
• Currently licensed as a Registered or Practical Nurse to practice in the State of Arizona
• Demonstrates clinical competency; ability to collaborate with others; ability to initiate and plan own work activities; effective time management skills and professionalism
• Possess and maintain good physical stamina and mental health

Qualifications

• Tactical Deliverables
• Notifies patient prior to visit and communicates further visits scheduled.
• Drives responsibly and safely to and from client’s place of residence.
• Schedules priorities and maintains productivity utilizing time management.
• Provides appropriate and thorough service to patients/clients, ensuring proper completion of services in an accurate and timely manner and in accordance with agency policy.
• Always demonstrates respectable customer service and professionalism.
• Determines discipline frequencies according to physician order and/or assessed needs.
• Provide teaching to patient/client and answer health-related questions and document patient/client/caregiver understanding of education.
• Document patient’s/client’s care using appropriate agency forms and submit to agency within appropriate timeline.
• Maintain continuity of care and document communications with others within the health care team.
• Demonstrate work that meets quality standards.
• Absorb periodic auditing of paperwork of self/peers.
• Adheres to Agency Code of Conduct, Standards of Practice, and Patients/Patient Rights
• Demonstrates professionalism in appearance, adhering to agency dress code.
• Accessible transportation to and from patients visits.
• Ability to lift 30 pounds, move intermittently throughout the workday, inclusive of sitting, standing and bending, pushing, pulling or moving objects and patients/clients.