Registered Nurse Hospice PRN

Hospice Registered Nurse (RN)

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) to join our hospice care team. In this role, you will provide holistic, patient-centered care to individuals with terminal illnesses, ensuring comfort, dignity, and quality of life during their end-of-life journey. As a Hospice Nurse, you will assume responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualized care plans. You will utilize the nursing process, incorporating advanced technology, therapeutic interventions, evidence-based practices, and seamless coordination with an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. Your expertise and empathetic approach will support not only the patients but also their families, offering guidance and emotional support during this critical time.

Home is where families gather, memories are made, and comfort is found. At Intermountain Health, we have the privilege of bringing skilled, compassionate care to patients in the place they cherish most, their home.

As a Hospice Nurse, you'll help patients experience comfort, dignity, and quality of life throughout their end-of-life journey. You'll combine your clinical expertise with compassionate, relationship-centered care while supporting both patients and their families during an incredibly meaningful time.

What You'll Love About This Role:

• Make a meaningful difference for patients and families when they need it most.
• Build trusted relationships while providing individualized care in the home.
• Expand your clinical skills in areas such as wound care, injections and medication administration, IV monitoring, and patient/caregiver education.
• Work independently while collaborating with an interdisciplinary hospice team.
• Provide care centered on comfort, dignity, and quality of life.
• Experience the deeply rewarding impact of supporting patients and families throughout the hospice journey.

Posting Specifics:

• Schedule: PRN, as needed
• Shift: 10-hour shifts, 9:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m. or 10:00 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
• Call: Rotating call, 1–2 weekends per month
• Location: Denver Metro

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current RN License in state of practice
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification for healthcare providers.
• Current driver's license, insured and reliable transportation and an acceptable driving record
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required as of the job description's last update on 4/27/2025. Employees hired or promoted prior to this date will be held to the minimum requirements that were in place at the time of their promotion or hire
• RNs with less than 12 months of working experience as an RN prior to joining Intermountain must obtain their BSN within 4 years of their hire date.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in an Acute Care, Home Health, or Hospice setting.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location: Hospice - Denver

Work City: Wheat Ridge

Work State: Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$37.45 - $57.29

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.