Registered Nurse; RN - Hospice

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Citrus Heights, California time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 3 Days Agojob requisition :
JR57401

The mission of First Call Hospice, a locally owned agency founded in 1993, is to provide individualized quality hospice care to meet the unique needs of patients with a limited life expectancy. The primary goal of First Call Hospice is to enhance the quality of life when the quantity of life is limited.
** When you join First Call Hospice Team, we will
*** Offer an extensive orientation, tailored to your needs
* Pay 100% of full time Employee Medical Benefits, and offer a number of different benefits including dental, vision, and life insurance
* Have 401K available to all full-time employees with profit sharing
** First Call Hospice is growing and looking for experienced, compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team!
**** JOB SUMMARY
** The Registered Nurse (RN) plans, organizes and directs hospice care and is experienced in nursing, with emphasis on community health education/experience. The professional nurse builds from the resources of the community to plan and direct services to meet the needs of individual and families within their homes and communities.
* Complete an initial, comprehensive and ongoing assessments of patient and family to determine hospice needs
* Provide a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es)
* Provide professional nursing care by utilizing all elements of nursing process
* Assess and evaluates patient’s status
* Use health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis
* Develop a care plan that establishes goals, based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates palliative nursing actions
* Initiate appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
* Administer medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician in the physician’s plan of care
* Counsel the patient and family in meeting nursing
* Provide health care instructions to the patient per assessment and plan
* Assist the patient with the activities of daily living
* Facilitate the patient’s efforts toward self-sufficiency and optional comfort care
* Act as Case Manager and assumes responsibility to coordinate patient care for assigned caseload
** JOB REQUIREMENTS
*** Active CA RN License
* Hospice experience preferred
* Ability for prolonged or considerable walking or standing
* Ability to lift, position, and/or transfer patients
* Ability to lift supplies and equipment.
* Ability for considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and/or crouching.
* Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills
* Maintains a current CPR certification

First Call Hospice
** is part of the Cornerstone Group
** with close to 80 agencies throughout the country.
** While we are part of a large family, we operate as a local team.
** We understand we are nothing without great employees! It is through our team’s dedication to deliver life changing service that we become the “provider of choice” in the community that we serve.
** Join a culture of high performers
** who are on a mission to create the best agency in the Greater Sacramento Area!
** What makes us unique
*** Celebration* Accountability
* Passion for Learning
* Love One Another
* Intelligent Risk Taking
* Customer Second
* Ownership
* * Pay:** $50.00 - $60.00 per houThe employer for this position is stated in the job posting.  The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US.  Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets.  

More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at  Call Hospice & Palliative Care is a Sacramento based provider that’s been around since 1997 servicing Sacramento, Placer, Yolo an El Dorado Counties. Our name “First Call” comes from being one of the first companies to provide hospice care outside of the large hospital systems in the area.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to ensuring that all conditions and privileges of employment, including recruitment, hiring, evaluation, transfer, promotion, discipline, determination of compensation and/or benefits, and termination of employment, for all job classifications, are based on qualifications and work record. No employment decision is made, nor do we discriminate, on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex/pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, or disability.
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