RN - Hospice & Home Care

Presbyterian Healthcare Services • Socorro, NM

6d • $42 - $56 • Onsite

About The Position

Build your career while making a difference. Presbyterian is seeking a Registered Nurse for our Home Health & Hospice Department in Socorro, New Mexico. How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.

The Hospice & Home Care RN is part of a specialty that goes beyond just a job—it’s a calling. Our dual-trained RNs build meaningful relationships with patients and their families, delivering compassionate and skilled care at every stage of life, from the community to the home, and through to the end of life.

Requirements

• State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License required
• Associate Degree, ADN Registered Nurse
• BLS certification required at time of hire

Responsibilities

• Maintains clinically competent in providing direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care.
• Coordinates patient care through collaboration with the patient, family, all other disciplines, primary and secondary physicians and community resources/programs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Hospice philosophy and provides support to patients and their families.
• Ensures that patients understand their rights and responsibilities, advanced directives and the meaning of informed consent during the admission process.
• Assesses and directs patient and family teaching needs and is proficient in the use of return demonstration and teaching aids in the home setting.
• Maintains professional responsibility for knowledge of current nursing research, practice standards, guidelines and protocols, and hospital policies, procedures, and programs to improve patient care quality.
• Maintains a proficiency in the use of all equipment used in his/her practice.
• Effectively communicates and assists other members of nursing team and/or other disciplines.
• Actively participates in problem solving and conflict resolution to maintain team cohesiveness.
• Performs on-call duties effectively with the ability to triage patients over the phone and visit when needed.
• Directs own educational needs for the top 10 ICD9 codes and/or diagnoses for SGH HHC: CHF, COPD, diabetes, wounds/post-surgical, arthritis, newborns, Coumadin dependency, malnutrition/ nutrition needs, medication instruction, pain and symptom control/hospice care.
• Supervises the home health aides in compliance with the Medicare/Medicaid rules and regulations.
• Performs other functions as required.

Benefits

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• EPIC electronic charting system
• free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree