Clinical Hospice Registered Nurse (RN) FT $10,000 Sign On Bonus

About the role

The registered nurse plans, organizes, and directs hospice care, building from community resources to meet the needs of individuals and families within their homes and communities.

Responsibilities

• Completes an initial, comprehensive, and ongoing assessment of patient and family to determine hospice needs, including a full physical assessment and illness history.
• Provides professional nursing care using all elements of the nursing process.
• Assesses and evaluates patient status, writing and initiating the plan of care and regularly re-evaluating needs.
• Participates in revising the plan of care as necessary and uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a care plan with goals based on nursing diagnosis, incorporating the patient and family in the planning process.
• Initiates preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures, administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician.
• Counsels the patient and family on nursing and related needs, providing health care instructions as appropriate.
• Assists with activities of daily living and facilitates patient efforts toward self-sufficiency and comfort care.
• Communicates with the physician regarding patient needs, reports changes in condition, and obtains physician orders as required.
• Works with the family/caregiver and hospice interdisciplinary group to meet emotional needs of the patient and family.
• Attends interdisciplinary group meetings.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• One to two years of recent acute care experience in an institutional setting.
• One to two years of recent experience with home hospice care.
• Current licensure in State and CPR certification.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, with one year of hospice care experience.
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication, problem-solving, and basic math skills.
• Nursing skills per competency checklist.
• Prolonged or considerable walking or standing; ability to lift, position, and transfer patients; lift supplies and equipment.
• Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching.
• Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills.
• Must be a licensed driver with an insured automobile in good working order, meeting state/organization requirements.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance
• Mileage reimbursement at $0.60 per mile after a 15-mile per day deduction

Schedule

Full-time, on the road.