Visit Nurse LPN Palliative Care PT

• Location 501 Comfort Place, Mishawaka, IN 46545, United States
• Employee Type:
  Part Time

Email: ALLENR

M, W, and F from 8-5

• 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.
• Consults and collaborates with the palliative care 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.
• Completes an average of two (2) nursing visits per day.
• Assesses all aspects of the patient’s pain and comfort, developing and implementing an individualized pain management plan.
• Triages symptom management via telephone, coordinating care with the patient’s physician or nurse practitioner.

• Communicates identified patient needs to appropriate disciplines via verbal and written reports of the current status of the patient.
• Assesses patient’s immediate needs and symptoms, collaborating with caregivers, physicians and pharmacists to manage those symptoms and educating caregivers on new medications and/or treatments.
• Collaborates with the palliative care physician or nurse practitioner regarding the plan of care and new orders needed at the time of admission.

• Reports appropriate information to the physician/nurse practitioner and the interdisciplinary team by ensuring verbal and written reports are clear, concise and timely.
• Patient care documentation is completed in EMR in a timely manner.
• Enters medications into the EMR in a timely manner.
• 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.
• Documents all nurse practitioner and physician orders, IDG notes, and patient notes on the day work is performed.
• Helps to provide continuity of care between team members and other service providers by ensuring verbal and written reports are clear, concise, and timely.

• Teaches patient 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 medical illnesses, plan of care, and needs of the patient.
• Serves as preceptor to other staff nurses, aides, and students.
• Committed to Agency resolution against fraud and abuse.
• Knowledgeable in palliative care and hospice philosophy.
• Arrives to work and meetings on time and ready to work.
• Respects confidentiality of patients/families and other Agency employees.
• Attends nurses 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.
• Follows directions and policies that allow for an organizational commitment to working under time pressures without sacrificing quality.
• Performs other duties that may be assigned.
• Participates in nursing call rotation with other hospice nursing staff.

• Possesses the ability to perform the following tasks for varying periods of time: standing, walking, sitting, 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 perform the following tasks for varying periods of time: speak in conversational tones utilizing the English/American Language, hear conversations as well as bodily function sounds with various medical or non-medical devices, observe patients via touch sensitivity that is strong enough to palpate various areas on the human body and allow an accurate reporting of a…