Registered Nurse - Hospice of Cincinnati - Float Pool

TriHealth•Blue Ash, OH

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Float Pool Hospice Nurse, you will deliver comprehensive end-of-life care to terminally ill patients across a variety of settings—including private residences, hospice facilities, and nursing homes. Your responsibilities will include managing pain and other distressing symptoms, educating patients and families, offering emotional and spiritual support, and collaborating closely with the interdisciplinary care team. This position is ideal for a versatile and adaptable nursing professional who thrives in diverse environments and is committed to providing comfort, dignity, and quality of life to patients during their final journey. You will play a vital role in bridging staffing needs across our hospice organization, ensuring continuity and excellence in care wherever you're needed most. This position applies the nursing process in providing direct and indirect holistic care to patients and their families. This position collaborates, in a collegial manner, with physicians and other health care team members in meeting the patient’s needs, and may delegate certain aspects of care to those under their direct supervision, within the scope of nursing practice. This position requires weekend hours and may be on-call during the evenings and nights. Thus, the position must be flexible.

Requirements

Associate's Degree or Diploma in Nursing
New hires required to obtain BSN within 5 years of hire
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS)
Registered Nurse
Knowledge, judgment, and skills derived from the Principles of Biological, Physical, Behavioral, Social, and Nursing sciences to meet complex health care needs at various stages of the life cycle

Nice To Haves

Preferred membership in related professional organization
Up to 1 year experience Clinical in Nursing unit-specific area

Responsibilities

Deliver comprehensive end-of-life care to terminally ill patients across a variety of settings.
Manage pain and other distressing symptoms.
Educate patients and families.
Offer emotional and spiritual support.
Collaborate closely with the interdisciplinary care team.
Bridge staffing needs across the hospice organization.
Perform initial and ongoing assessment of patient and family.
Complete initial assessment tool.
Document ongoing assessment per unit/TriHealth guidelines.
Communicate assessment findings to other health care providers as appropriate.
Include health counseling and health teaching needs in assessment.
Plan care for patient and family based on assessment, standards of care, and optimal specific outcomes.
Initiate and individualize appropriate patient care guidelines/plan of care or clinical pathways.
Update current plan of care as needed based on patient/family input and healthcare needs.
Develop both short and long term goals with patient/family and healthcare team including discharge planning.
Communicate plan of care to others.
Provide a safe, therapeutic environment, maintain patient’s autonomy, dignity, and rights, and is sensitive to patient diversity.
Seek resources to help form ethical decisions.
Balance patient's needs and those of the unit/facility.
Recognize emergency situations and take appropriate action.
Complete patient assignment including documentation within scheduled timeframe.
Base interventions on clinical data and desired outcomes and document accordingly.
Train/educate other staff and act an expert resource in specialty area through abilities in existing and newer knowledge and skills.
Effectively communicate information relative to surgical cases.
Carry out physician orders.
Evaluate the plan of care for patient based on optimal specific patient outcomes.
Document the patient/family response to care including teaching.
Collaborate with the patient/family and with other members of the health care team, including physicians, to revise plan of care as needed.
Supervise the care that was delegated to other health care team members.
Perform technical skills according to policy and procedure and accepted standards within their area of practice.
Safely administer medications/treatments and monitor their effects.
Use all equipment in a safe, appropriate manner.
Assume organizational and educational responsibilities.
Identify areas for professional and self-improvement through self-assessment and peer review, as well as the continuing education of team members continuing education, formal education, professional organization membership, and/or certification.
Share knowledge and skills with colleagues and others.
Provide peers with constructive feedback regarding skills and knowledge.
Maintain awareness of ongoing continuous improvement changes and support changes through active participation.