Registered Nurse (RN)

Hospice Buffalo • Buffalo, NY

19h

About The Position

The Community Admissions Registered Nurse presents hospice services to referred clients and families across general inpatient, home care, and nursing-home settings. After reviewing patient and family goals of care, the nurse facilitates and completes the admission process, identifies the appropriate level of care, initiates an individual professional interdisciplinary team (IDT) plan of care, and collaborates with the IDT, physician, and facility staff to determine start-of-care orders. The nurse also provides in-services for hospital staff and the community.

The role calls for individualized, sensitive presentations of hospice services that address patients’ and families’ fears, needs, and goals; knowledge of hospice eligibility guidelines and related programs; and clinical assessment and documentation of needs affecting patient well-being, comfort, dignity, and safety. The nurse assesses and manages pain and symptoms, initiates timely plans of care, teaches patients, families, and caregivers, and collaborates with hospice, hospital, and medical-community colleagues.

The schedule is four 10-hour shifts, 9 a.m.–7 p.m., with holiday and weekend rotation.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current Registered Nurse licensure in New York.
• Valid driver's license free of serious violations.
• Vehicle required for use when on duty or on-call.

Nice To Haves

• Certification in Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing preferred.
• Two years of professional Registered Nurse practice preferred.

Responsibilities

• Present hospice services to referred patients and families and identify the appropriate level of care.
• Review patient and family goals of care and facilitate and complete the admission process.
• Assess physical, psychosocial, environmental, safety, emotional, and spiritual needs related to terminal illness, and document findings in the EMR.
• Perform pain assessments, follow pain protocols, and support optimal pain relief through timely interdisciplinary interventions.
• Recognize and explain disease progression and symptom causes across relevant disease processes.
• Initiate timely and appropriate plans of care, anticipating threats to patient safety and symptom control.
• Incorporate computer documentation into patient visits and complete required documentation within time parameters.
• Teach patients, families, and caregivers.
• Collaborate with the IDT, physicians, facility staff, hospice colleagues, hospital staff, and the medical community.
• Provide in-services for hospital staff and the community.
• Participate in the weekend and holiday schedule.

Benefits

• Employer 401(k) contribution regardless of employee participation, with an additional matching contribution when the employee participates.
• Health insurance with a vision-component copayment plan or a high-deductible plan for full-time employees.
• Employer HSA contribution twice annually with the high-deductible health plan for full-time employees.
• Dental insurance for full-time employees.
• Flexible Spending Account for full-time employees.
• Paid Time Off and New York State Sick Leave.
• Tuition Assistance Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time