Hospice Admissions Registered Nurse

## Hospice Admissions Registered Nurse Apply locations:
Advance, NCtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R3629

The Admissions Registered Nurse is primarily responsible for initiating hospice services with patients, educating patients and families about hospice services, and completing the initial assessments of the patient’s needs, initiating the patient specific plan of care, and ensuring interdisciplinary collaboration in the development of a patient specific plan of care based on identified needs. The Admission RN is responsible for the provision of direct nursing services in accordance with the plan of care.
*** PRIMARY JOB DUTIES
*** 1. Provide education to patient and family about hospice benefits, including but not limited to: admission forms, regulatory requirements, and disease-specific prognosis and hospice plan of care.  
2. Complete the initial assessment of patient and family/caregiver needs and provide direct or supervised nursing services in compliance with the patient’s developed plan of care.
3. Develop and initiate an individualized plan of care, in collaboration with the hospice interdisciplinary team, patient, and family, based on assessment, identification of needs, and patient and family/caregiver goals and preferences. Incorporate palliative nursing interventions.  
4. Communicate with the physician (Attending and Hospice) regarding the patient’s needs, response to treatment, and changes in the patient’s condition; obtain/receive physician orders as required.  
5.  Work closely with other members of the IDG, and in cooperation with family/caregiver to provide holistic physical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual services, including bereavement support to the patient and family to achieve the highest quality of care.  
6. Demonstrates positive interpersonal relations in dealing with all members of the agency.  
7.  Effectively demonstrates the mission, vision and values of the Agency on a daily basis.
** 1.0 45%
**** QUALITY OF WORK
** 1.1 15%
Utilizing all aspects of the Nursing Process (assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation) with appropriate skill to effectively initiate and carry out the Plan of Care for each patient as evidenced by:
* Assessing the patients’ and family/caregivers’ physical, psychosocial, bereavement, environmental, safety, and developmental needs.
* Implementing the Hospice Plan of Care as prescribed by the physician and in conjunction with the other members of the interdisciplinary group and revising the Hospice Plan of Care as patients’ needs change.
* Providing care to patients and families through the utilization of interventions and evaluation of outcomes of care.
* Managing all aspects of the patient’s plan of care, based on the changing needs of the patient and family/caregiver, to anticipate, prevent, treat, and manage pain and other undesirable symptoms through ongoing communication of collected data and assessment findings, and collaborating with other interdisciplinary team members.
* Provide support, instruction, and education of the patient, family and other caregivers who participate in the care of the patient in relation to needs identified on the plan of care, including, but not limited to: disease process and progression, medications, pain, symptoms associated with disease, oxygen safety, hospice philosophy, and care of the terminally ill.
1.2 15%
Effectively and efficiently assists in the care of hospice patients and assists in the coordination of care with the interdisciplinary team.
* Maintains open communication and coordination of care, acting as a liaison between hospice medical provider, patient/family, and hospice team.
* Performs ongoing assessment of the patient based on the Plan of Care and communicates findings to the Hospice Physician and other interdisciplinary team members as appropriate.
* Performs and reports on assessment findings of the patient’s pain and other undesirable symptoms to the Hospice Physician in a timely manner.
* Maintains an accurate and updated medical record, including all coordination of care notes, on-going assessments, communications with others involved in patient care, and any…