Registered Nurse Hospice

Job Description: We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) to join our hospice care team. 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, therapeutic interventions, evidence-based practices, and seamless coordination with an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. What does it mean to be a part of our Hospice team? Home is where families gather, memories are cherished, and comfort is found. It’s where we reflect, heal, and experience moments of connection and peace. At Intermountain Health, we have the profound honor of bringing skilled, compassionate care to patients in the home—offering comfort, dignity, and quality of life during their end-of-life journey. As a Hospice Nurse, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring patients receive exceptional care in the setting they cherish most—their home. This meaningful work allows you to combine your clinical expertise with a deeply rewarding care environment, helping individuals and their families navigate this tender stage with compassion, skill, and excellence. Enhance your career by learning unique skills such as wound care, injection and medication administration, IV monitoring, and patient/caregiver education. Why Work With Us: Autonomous Practice: Enjoy the independence of managing patient care while receiving support from a collaborative healthcare team. Skill Development: Gain specialized experience in areas such as wound care, medication management, and IV therapy, all in a homecare setting. Meaningful Work: Deliver compassionate care to patients in their own homes, where comfort and healing can take place. Work-Life Balance: Flexible shifts, allowing you to balance work with your personal life. 4-10 hour shifts, 10 AM-8:30 PM, rotating call, holidays. Unit/Location: Denver Metro Benefits: Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. We also support your holistic health with a Healthy Living program featuring financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. Additionally, we provide financial wellness tools and retirement planning. 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). 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: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) 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: 40 Hourly Range: $37.17 - $56.17 (Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience). 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. To learn more about our comprehensive benefits package. Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. #J-18808-Ljbffr