LPN, Palliative Care Nurse, Healthcare Nursing

Hospice LPN – Hillcrest Hospice

Location: Lincoln, NE

Service Line: Hillcrest Hospice

Schedule: Full-Time

Hillcrest Health & Living is looking for a compassionate, dependable, and clinically strong Hospice LPN 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 LPN, you will make a meaningful impact by providing direct patient care, supporting symptom management, communicating with families and care teams, and helping patients receive compassionate care when they need it most.

• Provide routine nursing visits and assess assigned patients’ physical, functional, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, environmental, and nutritional needs.
• Support bedside care, symptom management, crisis intervention, family support, and phone triage.
• Coordinate and integrate services being provided to each patient 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.
• Notify patients and caregivers of schedules and schedule changes as needed.
• Communicate changes in patient condition or schedule to the Director of Clinical Services or designee.
• Provide nursing services in accordance with the hospice plan of care.
• Follow the hospice plan of care created by the RN Case Manager and discuss needed changes with the RNCM.
• Prepare accurate clinical notes, progress notes, assessments, and documentation at the point of care.
• Track visit time, travel time, meetings, mileage, and related 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 duties as needed to support patient care.
• Travel to multiple work locations to provide patient care and support hospice needs.

We are looking for an LPN 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 strong communication, calm follow-through, 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 bedside care, symptom-management, crisis-intervention, and phone-triage 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 remaining connected to the RN and 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, patient-centered approach to end-of-life care.

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program required.
• Active Licensed Practical Nurse license in Nebraska or a compact state required.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Reliable transportation and current automobile insurance required.
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