Registered Nurse, Hospice Admission and Visit - Full Time

Mercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois•Rockton, IL

22h•$34 - $61•Onsite

About The Position

The Hospice RN provides compassionate, culturally sensitive, holistic nursing care to patients in a clinical setting, supporting the Mercyhealth nursing mission, practice values and strategic plan. This role involves utilizing the nursing process and critical thinking in collaboration with interdisciplinary team members. The nurse will perform assessments, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care, administer prescribed medications and treatments, and ensure all documentation is accurate and comprehensive. A key aspect of this role is developing, initiating, and executing a patient plan of care according to individualized needs and utilizing available resources to teach and support patient and family education. The RN will also participate in performance improvement activities, resolve systems breakdowns, manage complex situations, and delegate appropriately. Additionally, the role involves positively influencing professional and organizational environments, engaging in personal development, and supporting continuous learning and growth. Clinic and Ambulatory RNs will maintain timely patient flow, respond to telephone calls, and perform telephone triage.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
ADN required upon hire.
Licensed as an RN in state of practice.
Approved CPR/BLS certification required within 90 days.

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred.
May require specific years of applicable experience to qualify (per department guidelines).
Other certification(s) per unit requirements. For example: ACLS, PALS, PEARS, and NRP.
May include color blind test (per department guidelines).

Responsibilities

Utilizes the nursing process and critical thinking in collaboration with interdisciplinary team members in caring for patients.
Performs assessments, planning, intervention and evaluation of care.
Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques, policies and procedures, standards of care, and state laws/practice act as required by care setting.
Ensures all documentation is accurate and comprehensive in accordance with the established standards of care for documentation at the system and entity levels.
Develops initiates and executes a patient plan of care according to the patient's individualized needs, as prescribed by the physician and/or hospital policy.
Utilizes resources available to teach and support patient and family education.
Provides education to the appropriate level of understanding.
Participates in department or unit performance improvement activities, which may include shared governance.
Utilizes clinical expertise & guidance to other units/departments in support of the patient's longitudinal plan of care.
Acts to resolve systems breakdowns and engages self and others in providing solutions.
Utilizes critical thinking in regards to patient safety and patient experience, manages complex situations and delegates to other staff appropriately.
Escalates to the appropriate chain of command as needed.
Positively influences the professional and organizational environments and shared governance.
Engages in personal development and supports system-entity opportunities for continuous learning and growth including developing or revising evidence based practice guidelines.
Supports and participates in peer review and peer feedback opportunities.
Participates in the professional nursing continuum.
Clinic and Ambulatory RNs will maintain timely flow of patients, in addition to responding to telephone calls and performs telephone triage of patients.