Hospice Admissions RN

About the role

Swan Hospice is actively seeking Admissions (RN) to join our team in Central New Jersey. We provide quality hospice care to patients in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and in private homes.

Responsibilities

• Oversees primary caseload of Hospice patients and provides skilled professional nursing care as prescribed by physician and in compliance with Medicare Conditions of Participation, NJ Hospice licensure laws, accrediting body standards, and agency policies.
• Provides initial and comprehensive nursing assessment, identifies problems, reassesses nursing needs, and collaborates to develop the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) plan of care.
• Implements the plan of care, reevaluates and revises based on patient’s nursing needs to provide appropriate, comprehensive, and responsive goals and interventions.
• Teaches, supervises, and counsels patient, family members, and staff regarding nursing care and patient needs, including other related problems at home.
• Works closely with other IDT members to ensure all patient and family care needs are met.
• Provides supervision to Hospice Aides/Homemakers.
• In the temporary absence or vacancy of the Nursing Supervisor, the RN/Alternate Nursing Supervisor is authorized to assume the Nursing Supervisor role and perform its duties.
• Utilizes the nursing process: assesses and plans by seeking sufficient information, conducting thorough initial assessment (physical, emotional, psychosocial), using nursing knowledge to lead IDT in formulating individualized plan of care, identifying active and potential needs, collaborating with physician, reviewing nursing component of plan with IDT, communicating in writing and verbally, facilitating and participating in IDT care conferences.
• Implements and evaluates: provides nursing interventions and appropriate preventative/therapeutic procedures, administers medications per federal/state law, collaborates with IDT for continuous assessment, interprets findings, initiates therapeutic actions, evaluates results, accepts responsibility for specialized procedures only when qualified, works with family/caregiver and IDT to meet physical and emotional needs, provides information and explanation, facilitates patient/family education to promote continuity of care and optimal outcomes, demonstrates expertise in utilizing IDT members and community resources, fulfills productivity requirements based on acuity, documents accurate, complete, relevant clinical notes timely, assesses dietary/nutritional needs and provides appropriate interventions.
• Education: acts as mentor providing educational experiences to IDT members, volunteers, hospice aides/homemakers, patient/family, health care professionals, community; participates in orientation, field training, in-service education; teaches disease progression and self-care techniques, medication, dietary/nutritional counseling; supervises Hospice Aides/Homemakers every 14 days per Medicare Conditions of Participation; evaluates effectiveness of educational experiences.
• Case Management: manages daily visits and assignments for maximum efficiency, reviews visit frequencies at least weekly and alters per patient needs and