Hospice RN 2nd Shift- Sheboygan/Mant

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Sheboygan, WI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time Hospice RN position for the 2nd shift, serving the Sheboygan/Manitowoc area. The role involves developing and coordinating comprehensive patient care, utilizing the nursing process to achieve desired outcomes. The Nurse Clinician II plans and sets goals with a holistic approach to patients and families, assumes leadership responsibilities at the unit level, and demonstrates mastery of clinical skills. The position requires providing and coordinating comprehensive patient care by incorporating concepts of responsibility, accountability, clinical decision-making, authority, shared governance, and critical thinking in daily nursing practice.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• Minimum 1 year of experience
• Earn 10.0 continuing education credits annually
• Has demonstrated proficiency for the requirements for NC I
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Computer skills
• Good time management and organizational skills
• Familiarity with patient care equipment
• Registered Nurse - Current Illinois RN license
• A valid driver’s license issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles.
• Current CPR

Nice To Haves

• Achieves required certifications or Bachelor’s Degree

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains a therapeutic relationship throughout the healthcare continuum.
• Provides individualized care to promote physical and psychosocial comfort, utilizing principles of optimum pain assessment and management.
• Assesses patient and family readiness and involves them in planning and implementing care, seeking consultation as needed.
• Incorporates an individualized, holistic approach in the plan of care.
• Assesses by gathering and appraising data to focus on age-appropriate patient needs.
• Continually evaluates patients’ and significant others’ response to interventions and appropriately modifies plan of care, responding respectfully to patient values, customs and spiritual needs.
• Collaborates with physicians and/or other health care professionals in developing relationships, plans of care and age-specific strategies.
• Supports patient’s decision to question, refuse, or terminate treatment, responding to physical or emotional crisis and/or death of patient, making home visits to provide care as appropriate.
• Provides supportive care to family members and involved caregivers throughout patient’s illness.
• Demonstrates ability to assess and respond to the needs of Hospice patients/families in varied settings.
• Mobilizes appropriate resources in response to situations that have the potential to negatively impact patient and family outcomes.
• Adapts practice to the latest standards according to evidence-based literature.
• Participates in quality/process improvement initiatives.
• Participates in efforts to reduce risk and improve patient safety, assessing physical environment and reporting unsafe conditions, and adhering to safety standards.
• Continually demonstrates current knowledge of Regulatory/Reimbursement standards.
• Looks for ways to improve processes, recommends solutions and implements appropriately, measures outcomes and utilizes data to recommend changes.
• Utilizes effectively and efficiently resources, supplies, and equipment.
• Assesses patient and family readiness to learn, and modifies approach as necessary.
• Seeks out opportunities to enhance knowledge, skill, and competence of department members, independently seeking out opportunities to learn and grow both interpersonally and functionally, taking responsibility for keeping skills and knowledge in field up to date, and displaying willingness and ability to learn and apply new skills.
• Plans, implements, and provides follow-up education for patients/S.O. appropriate to the patient's level of understanding.
• Instructs volunteers and hired caregivers in delivery of Hospice care as appropriate.
• Completes self-evaluation in a timely and thorough manner, supporting the peer evaluation process by gathering and providing information as requested.
• Recognizes changes in clinical situations, evaluates and implements changes to the plan of care.
• Consistently makes sound clinical decisions, demonstrating the ability to care for patients with complex problems.
• Prioritizes and organizes patient care and ensures follow-through with planned care.
• Initiates referrals and discharge planning for assigned patients and actively coordinates utilizing the interdisciplinary approach.
• Consistently demonstrates competence in implementation of patient care in accordance with established clinical standards of care, age-specific policies, and federal/state law, viewed as competent, and maintains knowledge base.
• Documentation is thorough, accurate, timely, legible, and concise with minimal duplication.
• Participates in unit meetings and activities that improve patient care or administrative systems, utilizes available resources to maintain current knowledge base relevant to practice, and attends at least 80% of all required department meetings and in-services.
• Demonstrates effective communication, feedback, and conflict resolution skills, promoting collaboration among healthcare team members.
• Demonstrates ability to critique own nursing practice and achieves required certifications or Bachelor’s Degree.
• Supports all Accrediting Organization compliance efforts, actively participates in ongoing readiness efforts, and individually meets and complies with all Accrediting Organization regulations.
• Complies with Code of Conduct, confidentiality, and HIPAA policies, having completed annual HIPAA education and annual Business Conduct education.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed