Hospice Registered Nurse (RN)

Hospice Registered Nurse (RN)

Come join this collaborative and innovated team. At Integritus Healthcare /IntegriHome, you will enjoy weekly pay, generous time off, exceptional health insurance and the ability to grow in your career.

Ready to love working again and be proud of where you work? Do you want to be valued and have an opportunity to make a meaningful impact? If you answered 'yes,' we can't wait to introduce you to our team of dedicated, caring professionals.

Join one of the largest post-acute health care systems across Massachusetts, committed to fulfilling the health and residential needs of the population in the communities we serve.

This is a full-time 40-hour per week position. The RN helps triage, coordinate, and administer hospice care for patients, families and caregivers through the utilization of hospice services and resources. The hospice RN is responsible for utilizing hospice and community resources to coordinate and drive services through a plan of care to meet the needs of patients and families.

Essential job functions include demonstrating understanding of the hospice philosophy/principles and an ability to clearly articulate these with others, managing the plan of care from referral through discharge for assigned hospice patients and families per regulations and agency standards, completing initial nursing assessment of patient/family to determine hospice needs, providing complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es), initiating and implementing plan of care in collaboration with patient/family with goals and interventions that promote optimal patient outcomes while maintaining patient dignity, autonomy, and comfort, administering medications/treatments as prescribed by the physician, coordinating patient care with team, family, and physician for assigned patients, completing, maintaining, and submitting accurate and relevant clinical notes regarding patient's condition and care, documenting measurable outcomes related to symptom management, completing patient discharges, both pronouncement visits and live discharges, to include the appropriate communication and documentation per regulations and agency standards, communicating with the medical director and attending physician regarding patient needs and changes, obtaining physicians' orders as required, participatory member of interdisciplinary team meetings, providing and maintaining a safe environment for the patient, keeping supervisor informed of potentially problematic patient/family issues and significant changes in patient status, demonstrating excellent communication skills in person, writing, phone, and computer, managing multiple priorities and demonstrating effective problem-solving and decision-making, assuming responsibility for personal growth and development, maintaining and improving professional knowledge and skills through continuing education and in-services, providing complete and timely nursing reports/handoffs to hospice staff, facility staff, and providers, participating in agency Quality Improvement Program, meeting individual program expectations and goals as identified through performance appraisal, annual plan, and by supervisor, and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications (minimum qualifications will be considered required unless specifically stated otherwise): Experience: Minimum of one (1) to two (2) years of experience in health care. Experience in a hospice, or home health preferred. Experience in acute care in an institutional setting preferred. Understand hospice philosophy and issues of death/dying. Education and Training: An associate's degree in nursing is required. A bachelor's degree in nursing is preferred. License, Certification & Registration: Possesses and maintains current CPR Certification. Current Massachusetts licensure: Registered Nurse required. Valid driver's license. Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Certification preferred.

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