Home Hospice Registered Nurse Case Manager

Chandler Hall Health Svcs•Newtown Township, PA

2h•Remote

About The Position

Chandler Hall, a non-profit, Quaker facility, provides high-quality care for older adults in Newtown, Bucks County and offers a wide spectrum of services for individuals at all stages of the aging process including Community Living, Personal Care, Home Hospice, Independent Living, Respite Care, and Skilled Nursing Care. We are seeking a Registered Nurse Case Manager for our Home Hospice, which provides care coordination for patients to include scheduling, certification and recertification. The primary purpose of your position is to provide direct nursing care to meet patients, residents, and family needs. Must be available to provide care to residents in the Bucks County, Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia areas.

Requirements

Registered Nurse license in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
1 or more years of hospice experience
Demonstrates knowledge about Hospice and Palliative Care
Demonstrates adherence to professional and ethical practice
Demonstrates self-awareness and ability to set appropriate professional boundaries
Demonstrates ability to establish, cultivate and sustain relationships
Demonstrates ability to complete a client-centered Initial or Routine Assessment
Demonstrates ability to work with patients and their units of care for plan of care (POC) development
Demonstrates ability to offer pain and symptom management for symptoms that often accompany a life-limiting or life-threatening illness or condition
Demonstrates ability to support clients in discussing their medical condition and life-limiting experience as it pertains to their physical, existential, cultural/familial and spiritual experience
Demonstrates ability to support clients in discussing their medical condition and life-limiting experience as it pertains to decision-making and planning
Demonstrates ability to distinguish and respond appropriately between normal suffering related to grief and loss, complex grief, and mental illness and how that impacts the grief process
Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively with the team for understanding client behavior, finding best solutions for care coordination
Demonstrates initiative to continually elevate skills and competency; provides leadership to support skill development and effective service delivery for the team and agency

Nice To Haves

CHPN preferred

Responsibilities

Work primarily with Home Hospice and Palliative Programs of Chandler Hall
Assist in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and providing the palliative and hospice nursing programs of Chandler in the inpatient and outpatient setting. These programs may include all levels of palliative and hospice care to include home, pavilion or hospital care
Works as the nurse member of the interdisciplinary team
Manage care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, interventions, implementation, and evaluation
Authorize, coordinate, provide, and supervise care, as prescribed in the Interdisciplinary Plan of Care, with contracted vendors to meet the needs of the patient
Document patient care reflecting nursing interventions, patient response to care, patient needs, problems, capabilities, limitations, and progress toward goals
Complete assessment, recertification, and discharge documentation as indicated by level of care
Maintain up-to-date charts and records on patient care and regular communication with the patient's physician regarding changes in the patient's plan of care
Evaluate and perform ongoing assessment and revise initial written plan of care as the needs and conditions of the patient/family change
Teach, supervise and counsel the patient/family regarding symptom management and psycho-social aspects of care
Assist with advance care planning
Assist with identification of resources which allow patients to achieve goals of care
Provide care for patients who enter Hospice program