Registered Nurse (RN) - Night Shift

YoloCares•Davis, CA

About The Position

If you’re looking for a clinical environment where collaboration, respect, and purpose guide the work each day, then YoloCares may be the place for you. About YoloCares YoloCares, ranked in the TOP 1% of all providers in California, and nationally ranked as a BEST PLACE TO WORK, is searching for its next Registered Nurse for the Night Shift. As a community-founded and community-grounded nonprofit with a nearly 50-year track record of being experts in caring for people with a life-limiting illness, we are recruiting someone passionate about and seasoned in end-of-life care and who has superb communication skills. Our team of professionals see their work not as work, but as a human response to an inner voice. For them, it is a calling, a vocation. The quality of their work and commitment to our mission is evidenced in the reality that YoloCares: Ranks in the top 1% nationally and in the State of California for quality of care. Has ranked five times as a Best Place To Work by Modern Healthcare. Was the first California healthcare provider accepted into the prestigious National Partnership for Healthcare & Hospice Innovation. Opened the West Coast’s first community/housing program for terminally ill individuals who are also experiencing homelessness. Created a unique five-star adult day program in Davis. The YoloCares Clinical Team The Registered Nurse (RN) – Night Shift will join a highly skilled, compassionate interdisciplinary clinical team dedicated to providing patient- and family-centered hospice care. YoloCares’ clinical team includes registered nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care counselors, nurse practitioners, and physicians who support patients and families through every stage of the hospice journey. The team is grounded in clinical excellence, mutual respect, and thoughtful coordination, with a shared commitment to dignity, comfort, and individualized care. Position Summary The RN – Night Shift reports to the Clinical Manager and is responsible for providing direct patient care under the supervision of the Director or designee. Responsibilities include following the plan of care, providing treatments, and working collaboratively with the members of the team to help meet positive patient care outcomes.

Requirements

California RN license required, and CPR certified.
Minimum of one year hospice experience desired; two years SNF/home care experience preferred.
Must be knowledgeable, at minimum, about Hospice Medicare Conditions of Participation and California Hospice Licensing Standards.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are required.
Ability to work effectively with community physicians and other health care providers (all disciplines) toward specified goals is required.
Must be self-motivating individual who can work autonomously, set own priorities, organize work, take initiative, and make independent decisions relating to job tasks.
Knowledge and experience using electronic medical software systems (EMR), Allscripts a plus.
Must be computer literate in Microsoft Word. Power Point software is preferred.
Ability to handle frequent interruptions and to complete different duties in a tight time frame.
Ability to successfully meet agency background screening requirements.
Ability to safely lift medical equipment (e.g. a wheelchair) weighing up to 35 pounds and to assist family/caregivers with transferring and ambulating patients as safety requires; considerable walking and standing may be required.
Must have visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing tasks and duties.
Ability and willingness to flex or add work hours to meet scheduled shifts and holidays is required.
Ability and willingness to maintain and drive a personal vehicle. A valid California driver’s license and state-required automobile insurance are required.
Ability to work 7 days on and 7 days off shift. From 5:00 PM to 8:30 AM.

Nice To Haves

Second language is a plus.
Power Point software is preferred.

Responsibilities

Triage phone calls from patients/families.
Make home visits as staffing issues dictate.
Work cooperatively with patients, families, nursing staff, physicians, consultant personnel, and ancillary service providers.
Report to DPCS/Clinical Manager and day shift nurses with patient updates from night shift with daily reports and EMR charting.
Work cooperatively with patients, families, nursing staff, physicians, consultant personnel, and ancillary service providers.
Identify personal education needs and seek formal programs or participate in educational activities or seek other avenues to meet these needs.
Develop a work style, which demonstrates teamwork, constructive time management as well as effective conflict resolution and problem solving.
Participate in the evaluation(s) of own performance by identifying strengths and weaknesses and by developing a plan to improve areas of weakness.
Consistently meet all standards of conduct delineated in the YoloCares Integrity Program: Standards of Conduct: A Guide to Compliance and Ethics.
The incumbent may, from time to time, be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated.