Job Description

Position Overview

The Hospice   Registered Nurse is responsible for providing and documenting skilled nursing care in accordance with the developed care plan and physicians’ orders for each individual patient while adhering to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries at all times.

  Essential Job Functions:

• Develop a plan of care through physician orders, client input, and nursing assessment to include medical interventions and measurable goals and outcomes.
• Educate clients and their family members based on client’s specific needs.
• Properly orient and train primary caregivers to ensure the most optimal functioning level for each client.
• Coordinate the continuum of hands on client care through documentation and timely communication with the client's physician and other caregivers.
• Provide care in patients home using a variety of skills such as phone triage, patient education, observation/assessment, wound care, infusions, catheter care, PICC line dressing changes etc.

Requirements:

• An active RN License in the state of application
• Valid CPR

Preferred:

• Medicare Skilled Nursing experience
• Basic understanding of Homecare Homebase
• 1-year RN experience in a health care setting

HHH

As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.

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