RN, Palliative Care Nurse, RN Nurse

Hospice RN – Hillcrest Hospice

Location: Lincoln, NE

Service Line: Hillcrest Hospice

Schedule: Full-time

Hillcrest Health & Living is looking for a compassionate, clinically strong, and dependable Hospice RN to join our Hillcrest Hospice team.

Hillcrest Hospice provides meaningful, person-centered care for patients and families during one of life’s most important stages. Our team focuses on comfort, dignity, symptom management, emotional support, and helping patients and families feel cared for, informed, and supported.

At Hillcrest, our mission is simple:
Inspiring people to live their best lives. As a Hospice RN, you will make a lasting impact by providing skilled nursing care, building trusted relationships, and helping patients and families navigate care with compassion and confidence.

As a Hospice RN
, you will provide direct patient care while managing and coordinating each patient’s plan of care. You will use strong clinical judgment, communication, and problem-solving skills to support patients, families, caregivers, physicians, and the interdisciplinary hospice team.

• Provide nursing visits and assess patients’ physical, functional, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, environmental, and nutritional needs.
• Manage patient care with a focus on bedside care, symptom management, crisis intervention, and family support.
• Coordinate and integrate services provided by all hospice disciplines.
• Teach patients and families about the disease process, self-care techniques, end-of-life care, and ethical concerns.
• Communicate professionally with physicians, patients, families, caregivers, referral sources, and team members to support the plan of care.
• Notify patients and caregivers of schedules and schedule changes as needed.
• Communicate changes in patient condition or care needs to leadership and appropriate team members.
• Provide nursing services in accordance with each patient’s plan of care.
• Prepare accurate clinical notes, progress notes, assessments, and care plan updates.
• Complete documentation at the point of care and follow hospice documentation standards.
• Initiate, document, and revise hospice aide care plans based on patient condition.
• Track visit time, travel time, meetings, mileage, and related daily documentation accurately.
• Prepare clinical documentation for interdisciplinary team meetings and communicate recommended interventions.
• Participate in team conferences, service line meetings, QAPI activities, committees, and ongoing education.
• Provide consultation, education, and support to internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide specialized hospice education to staff, family members, and informal caregivers as needed.
• Participate in on-call and backup call rotations as needed to support patient care.
• Travel to multiple work locations to provide patient care and support hospice needs.

We are looking for an RN who is compassionate, organized, and comfortable providing care in emotionally sensitive situations.

The right candidate will be clinically confident, self-directed, and able to build strong relationships with patients, families, caregivers, providers, referral sources, and team members. Hospice care requires heart, follow-through, strong communication, and the ability to support families with both clinical skill and genuine compassion.

• At least three years of nursing experience required.
• At least two years of hospice, home care, palliative care, or related experience preferred.
• Strong clinical assessment, symptom-management, and care-coordination skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and decision‑making abilities.
• Ability to build rapport with patients and families during sensitive and emotional situations.
• Ability to work independently while staying connected to the interdisciplinary team.
• Strong attention to detail with documentation, care planning, schedules, mileage, and follow‑through.
• A calm, flexible, and professional approach in changing or urgent situations.
• Comfort educating patients, families, caregivers, and team members.
• Willingness to travel to multiple work locations.
• A compassionate,…