RN New Market - Day Shift

About the role

Make a lasting impact with Agrace. Join Agrace, a nationally recognized nonprofit leader in hospice and palliative care. If you are a skilled nurse who values meaningful, patient‑centered care, this is your opportunity to make a difference! The RN – New Market provides patient and family centered care in new geographic markets; they establish, provide, and ensure care consistent with Agrace philosophy, goals, standards, regulations, and policies. This role is responsible for evaluating potential patients for hospice and palliative care, admitting patients to Agrace’s homecare program in new markets, and ensuring patient and family satisfaction through nursing care and case management by conducting assessments, triaging patient needs, creating and updating the plan of care, providing interventions, communicating, and documenting.

Responsibilities

• Review medical records to identify hospice and palliative care services eligibility, physician orders, and verify diagnosis.
• Identify if patient meets admission criteria in collaboration with primary care, specialty, and Agrace physicians.
• Collaborate with IDT and primary care provider to create HES for determination of hospice eligibility.
• Assess patient’s physical, pain, psychosocial, emotional, spiritual, environmental, fall, medication safety, and educational needs.
• Collect data from patient, family, significant other, and other health care professionals about immediate goals and needs.
• Collect data from patient, family, significant other, other members of the interdisciplinary team, and other health care professionals about immediate and longer‑term goals and needs.
• Serve as a consultant to patients