Registered Nurse - Hospice RN Support (Weekends)

Nurse Position at Reserve Care

Reserve Care operates in celebration of the individual worth of each life, we strive to relieve suffering, enhance comfort, promote quality of life, foster choice in end-of-life care and support effective grieving.

The Nurse position will facilitate Reserve Care's efforts to relieve suffering, enhance comfort, promote quality of life and foster choice in the presence of an advanced serious illness for all patients and families. The practice is based on competent clinical knowledge and focuses on clinical practice, education and collaboration related to palliative and hospice care.

Uses the nursing process to gather information, assess (RN), plan, implement and evaluate patient care to provide for the unique physical and emotional and training needs of each patient with the availability to provide handouts, videos etc.

Establishes and maintains communication and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team and patient's primary physician regarding patient condition and plan of care.

Anticipate needs to ensure exceptional patient centered care

Completes phone follow up with patients who have called in over the weekend or after hours.

Completes phone calls from the care solutions center by fielding incoming nursing-based calls throughout the day

Completes phone follow up with patients who have been discharged from the hospital.

Phone support includes questioning and noting medication changes, increased care needs and/or changes in condition following hospitalization. Based on this they will either verify the next nurse visit or request sooner a visit.

Be able to communicate referral criteria based on physical symptoms, functional/cognitive changes with patients/families and refer to hospice level of care when needed

Coordination of care within the agency, between transdisciplinary team members and with external partners

Contributes to and follows the plan of care in alignment with patient/family goals, collaboration with primary nurse, social worker (SW), HNAS, SCC and other members of primary team

Perform chart review and determine need for sooner visit by primary nurse. Phone calls to patients/families per team's direction for things like follow up on medication changes, upcoming change in address, training needs etc.

To include offering insight on patients discussed or patients needing to be discussed based on phone support.

Educate and train patients and families on applicable areas of hospice care, such as interventions for symptom management within the scope of practice.

Empowers patients and families to identify goals of care

Maintains a current Registered Nurse license in the state of Ohio

Minimum of two years' experience in hospice and palliative care preferred

Must be flexible and have problem solving skills, prioritize and demonstrate health coping strategies

Knowledge of hospice and palliative care clinical standards of practice, policies, and procedures

Ability to practice in accordance with RC clinical standards of practice, policies, and procedures

Ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with RC employees, community, and healthcare providers

Total Rewards Package to include Retirement, Health, Dental, Vision, voluntary benefits and Corporate Discounts

Protocols in place for wellbeing during COVID-19

Compliance to Annual Flu Shot Policy or ability to provide exemption documentation

Reserve Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages Women, Minorities, Individuals with Disabilities, and protected Veterans to apply.

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