Personal Care, LPN - Full Time

Job Description Hospice of the Western Reserve is now Reserve Care. Our new name reflects the full scope of care we provide while honoring nearly 50 years of trusted service. We continue to deliver expert hospice, palliative and grief support with the same compassionate team. When you join Reserve Care, you become part of a legacy that walks alongside patients, families and communities with guidance and meaningful support during life’s most important moments.

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.

We believe that our success starts with our greatest asset: SERVICE. Provide prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to terminally ill persons in collaboration with the transdisciplinary team in a variety of settings. Coordinate the implementation of the Plan of Care for each patient utilizing the Nursing Process.

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

Assess physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family/caregivers.

Provide intermittent skilled nursing services to the patient under the patient's physician's direction.

Monitor and evaluate pain and symptoms and provide information and assistance to the patient and family to manage those problems.

Serve as a liaison to the patient's physician(s) when needed; provide information to the physician based on knowledge relating to the patient's needs.

Refer patients and/or family members to other services when appropriate and follow-up as necessary.

Provide instruction (health teaching) to the patient and family.

Maintain and promptly complete all necessary plans and reports related to hospice care.

Participate in care conferences and bereavement follow-up.

Participate in case review, quality improvement activities and other meetings as assigned.

Plan and clinically supervise activities of HNA as related to patient care.

Participate in the on-call rotation as scheduled.

Participate in discharge planning in collaboration with other team members.