RN Clinical Nurse Home Health - UNC Hospice Services

Description

The Hospice Services team is seeking a full-time Home Hospice RN to provide compassionate support to hospice patients and families Monday-Friday
. This role is ideal for an experienced nurse who values autonomy, strong clinical judgment, and meaningful patient connections during some of the most important moments in a patient’s care journey.

This nurse will collaborate with other RNs, social workers, and hospice leadership to support patients within our Orange County service area while helping ensure timely, patient-centered care for patients and caregivers.

The ideal candidate will have prior hospice, home health, oncology, critical care, med-surg, or strong symptom-management experience. Success in this role requires emotional intelligence, dependable communication, comfort working independently, and the ability to prioritize patient needs in the home setting.

Additional benefits include:

• Laptop, cell phone, and Katana safety device provided
• Mileage reimbursement
• Competitive pay with generous benefits and PTO
• Eligibility for Nursing Commitment Incentives
• Supportive interdisciplinary team model

This is a meaningful opportunity for a nurse who feels called to hospice care, values flexibility and autonomy, and wants to make a direct impact on patients and families when support is needed most.

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Summary:

Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a home health setting

Responsibilities:
1. Education--Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesss readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesss developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
2. Evaluation of care--Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care
3. Implementation--Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
4. Leadership--With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.

Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all
5. Patient Assessment--Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs
6. Planning--Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available…