Registered Nurse | Hospice Excell Home Care & Hospice | OKC, OK

Registered Nurse | Hospice | Full-time| Excell Home Care & Hospice | OKC, OK 73139 page is loaded## Registered Nurse | Hospice | Full-time| Excell Home Care & Hospice | OKC, OK 73139locations:
Oklahoma City, OKtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR57832
** RN sign-on bonus $6000.00!*****
* ** Excell Home Care & Hospice is a 5-star Customer Satisfaction agency!
**** Company Information*
* ** Celebrating 30 years!

** Excell’s Legacy of Excellence is to provide Life-Changing Services to our Oklahomans. We are celebrating 30 years of excellence; a history of high-quality care, administered by long-tenured, skilled professionals. You can be part of a historic legacy that lives into the future! Be an advocate for quality of care, you and your ‘why’ change the lives of our patients, families, and healthcare partnerships in our Oklahoma City community.

Come be a beacon, and build into our legacy your passion, your reason for life-changing care. We know why we do this noble work, and just like you, together we make our reason the one to call Excell Home Care & Hospice, Home.
* Based in Oklahoma City and operating in various counties throughout the state, Excell Home Care and Hospice is Medicare certified and licensed by the Oklahoma State Department of Health
* Conducts initial visits pending hospice referrals in acute care facility or home to identify needs of the patient.
****** Be part of Excell's legacy of providing life-changing service! Excell has been located in SW OKC since 1996 and has a history of high-quality care, administered by long-tenured, skilled professionals.
**** I. JOB SUMMARY
** The registered nurse 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.
** II. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
**** Patient Care
** 1. Completes an initial, comprehensive and ongoing assessments of patient and family to determine hospice needs. Provides a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es).2. Provides professional nursing care by utilizing all elements of nursing process.
3. Assesses and evaluates patient’s status by:

A. Writing and initiating plan of care

B. Regularly re-evaluating patient and family/caregiver needs

C. Participating in revising the plan of care as necessary
4. Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
5. Develops a care plan that establishes goals, based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates palliative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
6. Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures. Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician in the physician’s plan of care.
7. Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.
8. Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan.
9. Assists the patient with the activities of daily living and facilitates the patient’s efforts toward self-sufficiency and optional comfort care.
10. Acts as Case Manager and assumes responsibility to coordinate patient care for assigned caseload.
** Communication
* * 1. Completes, maintains and submits accurate and relevant clinical notes regarding patient’s condition and care given. Records pain/symptom management changes/outcomes as appropriate.
2. Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports changes in the patient’s condition and obtains/receives physicians’ orders as required.
3. Communicates with community health related persons to coordinate the care plan.
4. Teaches the patient and family/caregiver self-care techniques as appropriate. Provides medication, diet and other instructions as ordered by the physician and recognizes and utilizes opportunities for health counseling with patients and families/caregivers. Works in concert with the interdisciplinary group.
5. Provides and maintains a safe environment for the patient.
6. Assists the patient…