Afterhours RN-7on/7off
About The Position
Explore opportunities with Community Loving Care Hospice, a part of LHC Group. As part of the Optum family of businesses, we provide home health, hospice and community-based services that help people receive quality care where they feel most comfortable: at home. Rooted in personalized care, we support patients and provide comfort through each stage of their health journey, while building trusted relationships along the way. Find a home for your career here. Join us and embrace a culture of Caring. Connecting. Growing together. As the Afterhours Registered Nurse’s your primary focus is to conduct comprehensive and timely delivery of hospice care for patients and their families after regular business hours, including at night and on the weekends.
Requirements
- Current unrestricted RN licensure in the state of practice experience
- Current driver's license, valid vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle, or public transportation
Nice To Haves
- Current CPR certification or ability to complete within 90 days of hire
- 1+ years of clinical experience
Responsibilities
- Able to triage patient needs over the phone until a nurse can provide an in-person visit
- Responds appropriately and with urgency to crisis calls from patients and families afterhours
- Makes the initial nursing evaluation in determining eligibility for hospice services, as part of a patient visit, within forty-eight (48) hours of referral if assigned
- Competent to perform afterhours visits including admission visits, death visits, recertification visits, and routine visits
- Identifies the patient/family's physical, psychosocial, emotional, and environmental needs and reassess them as needed, no less than every fifteen (15) days
- Documents problems, appropriate goals, interventions, and patient/family response to hospice care
- Ability to function in any home situation regardless of age, race, creed, color, sex, disability, or financial condition of the client
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
- $7,500 Sign on Bonus offered for Full-Time External candidates only
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
