Hospice Registered Nurse - full time
Home Health & Hospice Care · Merrimack, NH · 1 wk ago
HealthcareFull-time
About the role
As a Registered Nurse in Homecare or Hospice, you’ll deliver skilled, compassionate nursing care directly in the patient’s home. You’ll complete comprehensive assessments—including OASIS—develop individualized care plans, and collaborate closely with physicians, families, and the interdisciplinary team to ensure high-quality, goal-directed, cost-effective care. This role blends clinical expertise, autonomy, and relationship-centered care to support patients in maintaining comfort, safety, and independence at home.
Responsibilities
- Complete initial and ongoing home assessments, including full physical evaluations and medical history reviews.
- Use the nursing process to plan, deliver, and evaluate skilled nursing care.
- Accurately perform OASIS assessments and ensure documentation reflects patient status and care needs.
- Develop individualized care plans with measurable goals, involving patients and families in all planning and revisions.
- Cookordinate interdisciplinary care, communicating significant changes to physicians and obtaining necessary orders.
- Teach and counsel patients and families on self-care techniques, disease management, and safety.
- Prepare timely, accurate clinical notes and maintain strong communication with the care team.
- Support quality outcomes, patient satisfaction, and appropriate utilization of visits.
- Participate in staff meetings, case conferences, and quality improvement activities.
- Maintain professional growth through continuing education and annual mandatory training.
- Precept students when requested and provide excellent customer service.
- Travel within assigned territory, occasionally assisting outside the usual area.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- A Registered Nurse with an Associate Degree in Nursing (BSN preferred).
- Licensed and in good standing with the New Hampshire Board of Nursing.
- Equipped with at least one year of recent acute care experience.
- Certified in BLS/CPR and able to meet driving, insurance, and background requirements.
- Skilled in patient assessment, care planning, and communication.
- Comfortable working independently in the home setting while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team.
- Familiar with OASIS, home health reimbursement, and EMR systems (Allscripts preferred).
Qualifications
- Compassionate, adaptable, and committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care.
Skills
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Proficiency in electronic health records (EHR) systems.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
- Health, dental, prescription, and vision coverage for full-time & part-time employees.
- Short-term, long-term disability, life & pet insurance.
- Tuition reimbursement & Nursing Student Loan Paydown Program.
- 403(b) retirement savings plans.
- Continuous earned time accrual.
Pay
$25.00 - $30.00 per hour based on experience and qualifications.
Schedule
Mon - Fri, 12:00pm - 8:00pm or 11:00am - 7:00pm. 40 hours / week.