Hospice Care Nurse, RN- $55Hr- Community Based at Amergis

$114,400 - $114,400/Yr

Unclassified - Rockville, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Rockville, MD

About the position

The Registered Nurse - Hospice is responsible for providing care, comfort, and support to terminally ill patients. This role involves assuming responsibility and accountability for the delivery of hospice patient care in various settings. The Registered Nurse demonstrates the ability to make clinical judgments effectively and efficiently, with supervision. Critical thinking and performance ability are essential in the coordination of patient care, ensuring that nursing standards are consistently met. The Registered Nurse is accountable for managing patient care and assisting others in this process, ensuring a high standard of care is maintained throughout the patient's experience. In this position, the Registered Nurse will utilize the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. This includes performing focused interviews to identify specific patient needs, assessing signs and symptoms that indicate physiological and psychosocial changes in the patient's condition, and collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from healthcare team members. The nurse will document actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses and the patient's plan of care, which includes identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions. The Registered Nurse will identify and prioritize actions based on patient care requirements, perform interventions according to identified priorities, and ensure compliance with hospital policies and patient care outcome standards. Creating a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients is paramount. The nurse will also initiate and evaluate patient and/or family education, providing guidance and support as needed. The plan of care will be revised according to evaluations and changes in the medical plan, ensuring that the patient's response to nursing and other interventions is documented accurately. The role requires monitoring the safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment, advising grieving family members on coping techniques, and performing other duties as assigned or necessary.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
• Performs focused interview to identify specific patient needs.
• Assesses signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in patient's condition.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.
• Documents the patient's plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
• Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements.
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.
• Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment.
• Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education and provides guidance and support.
• Revises plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
• Documents the patient's response to nursing and other interventions.
• Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned floor/unit including establishing priorities.
• Monitors safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment.
• Advises grieving family members on coping techniques and community resources.
• Performs other duties as assigned/necessary.

Requirements

• Current Registered Nurse license for the state in which the nurse practices.
• Complies with all relevant professional standards of practice.
• Participation and completion of Amergis' Competency program when applicable.
• Current CPR if applicable.
• TB questionnaire, PPD or chest x-ray if applicable.
• Current Health certificate (per contract or state regulation).
• Must meet all federal, state and local requirements.
• Successful completion of new hire training as applicable to job site.
• Understand patient confidentiality and HIPAA requirements.
• Ability to effectively elicit/provide information to and from appropriate individuals via strong communication skills; proficiency in the English language is required.
• Computer proficiency required.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.

Benefits

• Competitive pay & weekly paychecks
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• Awards and recognition programs