RN Hospice Visit Nurse Power Weekend

Brief Description

Hospice Visit Nurse-Power Weekends

7p-7a

• Assesses patient needs and evaluates symptoms and progress through the comprehensive assessment of the patient.
• Executes the therapeutic regime of treatments, medications, and plan of care as prescribed.
• Provides holistic, patient/family-centered care, as prescribed, in the patient's residence to improve the quality of life.
• Functions within Agency guidelines for patient care productivity.
• Consults and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the patient’s care.
• Initiates or facilitates referral of patient and/or family to appropriate Agency or community resources.
• Performs admissions as assigned.
• Provides supervision of LPN, Home Health, and Hospice Aides in accordance with agency policy and regulatory requirements.
• Accurately records and reports pertinent facts and observations regarding patients condition and response to treatment. Also documents on ECF chart, if applicable.
• Reports appropriate information to the case manager, and the interdisciplinary team, by ensuring verbal and written reports are clear, concise and timely.
• Documents problems, nursing assessments, care provided, care interventions and patient and family outcomes in the clinical record at the point of care.
• Assures the ECF chart’s Agency section contains necessary information for Agency/ECF compliance, if applicable.
• Teaches patient (or ECF staff as applicable) self‑care.
• Teaches those parts of patient care appropriate for each family to provide.
• Teaches indication, side effects, and contraindication of all medications.
• Assists the patient’s family (and ECF staff if applicable) with understanding the illness, dying process, plan of care, and needs of the patient.
• Committed to Agency resolution against fraud and abuse.
• Knowledgeable in hospice philosophy, LCD, and state and federal rules and regulations.
• Arrives to work and meetings on time and ready to work.
• Respects confidentiality of patients/families and other Agency employees.
• Attends nurse meetings, educational meetings/conferences for professional growth as required.
• Participates in nursing validations as required.
• Participates in agency infection control plan.

Sees change as an opportunity and maintains a level of flexibility, which allows for adaptation to new ways of performing.

• Performs other duties that may be assigned.

• Possesses the ability to perform the following tasks for varying periods of time: standing, walking, sitting, lifting objects up to 75 lbs., pushing/pulling objects up to 200 lbs., climbing stairs, stooping, kneeling, twisting, bending, reaching overhead and in front of body, simultaneous use of both hands, wrists, and fingers.
• Possesses the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions that include, but are not limited to: adverse weather conditions, dust, fumes, tobacco smoke, noise, closed‑in spaces or rooms, and locations with poor or improper lighting and glare.
• May be required to work in shifts that may be steady or rotating.
• Possesses the ability to operate and drive an automobile while maintaining a valid driver’s license and current automobile insurance. Requires use of personal vehicle.

• Maintains current nursing licensure in Indiana and Michigan preferred CPR certification.