Registered Nurse (RN) Case Manager Hospice

About the Role

The registered nurse plans, organizes, and directs hospice care, leveraging experience in nursing with an emphasis on community health education. This role involves building on community resources to meet the needs of individuals and families within their homes and communities.

Responsibilities

• Completes initial, comprehensive, and ongoing assessments of patients and families to determine hospice needs.
• Provides professional nursing care using all elements of the nursing process.
• Assesses and evaluates patient status by writing and initiating care plans, re-evaluating needs, and revising plans as necessary.
• Initiates preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
• Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician.
• Counsels patients and families, assists with activities of daily living, and facilitates self-sufficiency and comfort care.
• Maintains accurate clinical notes, reports changes in patient condition, and communicates with physicians and community health providers.
• Reports suspected abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect as required by law.
• Teaches self-care techniques, provides health counseling, and works with the interdisciplinary team to ensure continuity of care.
• Participates in on-call duties, supervises ancillary personnel, and ensures necessary equipment and services are available.
• Engages in professional development, participates in quality assessment activities, and fulfills case assignments.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Registered Nurse with a License in good standing to practice in Virginia.
• Minimum of 1 year of professional nursing experience within the last 3 years, OR a baccalaureate degree in nursing with 2 years of experience (preferably in public health, home care, or hospice nursing).
• Excellent observation, verbal and written communication, problem-solving, and basic math skills.
• Physical ability to walk, stand, lift patients and equipment, and perform nursing tasks.
• Valid driver’s license, insured automobile, and good working order of vehicle.

Additional Requirements

• Satisfactory references and criminal background check upon offer of employment.
• Participation in continuing education and in-service classes for professional growth.