Registered Nurse (RN) - Hospice
Seaport Home Health Care Services•San Diego, CA
•$50 - $65•Onsite
About The Position
The on call registered nurse plans, organizes and directs hospice care and is experienced in nursing, with emphasis on community health education/experience. The professional nurse builds from the resources of the community to plan and direct services to meet the needs of individual and families within their homes and communities.
Requirements
- Active CA Registered Nurse License
- 1+ Year of Nursing Experience, hospice nursing experience preferred.
- Prolonged or considerable walking or standing.
- Able to lift, position, and/or transfer patients.
- Able to lift supplies and equipment.
- Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and/or crouching.
- Visual acuity and hearing to perform required
Responsibilities
- Completes a comprehensive and ongoing assessments of patient and family to determine hospice needs.
- Provides a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es).
- Provides professional nursing care by utilizing all elements of nursing process.
- Assesses and evaluates patient’s status.
- Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
- Develops a care plan that establishes goals, based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates palliative nursing actions.
- Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
- Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
- Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician in the physician’s plan of care.
- Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.
- Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan.
- Assists the patient with the activities of daily living and facilitates the patient’s efforts toward self-sufficiency and optional comfort care.
- Acts as Case Manager and assumes responsibility to coordinate patient care for assigned caseload.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Pre-tax healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) plan with generous company match
- Critical illness benefit
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
