RN - Outpatient Hospice

Presbyterian Healthcare Services • Pueblo, CO

1d • $40 - $58 • Onsite

About The Position

Join our Outpatient Hospice department as a Registered Nurse to provide compassionate, patient-centered care to individuals in outpatient settings to enhance comfort and quality of life. How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Nursing
• State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License
• BLS certification REQUIRED at time of hire
• One year in Direct patient care setting or home health care
• Current drivers license and auto insurance

Nice To Haves

• Hospice experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Direct patient care and case management of Hospice patients in outpatient settings.
• Ensuring that end-of-life care is delivered within quality and utilization guidelines and is directed toward the achievement of desired clinical outcomes for patients and their families.
• Development, coordination and scheduling delivery of care through a multidisciplinary team to the patient in the home or community setting.
• Assuring completeness, timeliness and appropriateness of the patient care plan, its implementation, and ongoing evaluation.
• Assuring communication with the multidisciplinary team, support services and community resources to ensure that plan of care goals are achieved in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.
• Ensuring that documentation is timely, accurate, complete, and reimbursable.
• Acting as a patient advocate.
• Precepting newly hired nurses.
• Completing assessments that are timely, and appropriate of physical, mental, psychological/social (behavioral), functional, financial, treatment, resource, and spiritual needs of patients.
• Providing skilled nursing care services by planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, evaluating, and documenting all aspects of nursing care in accordance with physician/APC plan of care.
• Coordinating patient’s care through collaboration with patient/care giver, multidisciplinary team, and physician/APC.
• Intervening consistently with orders and changing interventions with orders to meet changes with patient/care giver needs.
• Evaluating each visit the effectiveness of interventions and the patients response to intervention.
• Provide direct patient care by assessing patient for care needs, resources to meet needs and developing a hospice plan of care in conjunction with physician.
• Assuring completion of required assessments according to regulations for hospice and QAPI measures.
• Coordinating implementation of the plan of care through a multidisciplinary home care team, community resources and physician/APC.
• Ensuring plan of care is followed and that documentation complies with regulatory requirements.
• Maintaining a department productivity standard for visits and caseload management.
• Demonstrating professional accountability for self-scheduling patient case load with appropriate frequency and duration, and concurrently updating schedule throughout the day as needed so that ongoing patient needs can be met.
• Assuring patients on case load are notified timely of their visits, any unplanned schedule changes, and accommodating patients preferred schedule as available.
• Precepting newly hired nurses, students and serving as a resource person and professional role model as needed.
• Maintaining communication with the multidisciplinary team s and assuring that orders for necessary care plan changes are obtained and communicated timely to the team.
• Initiating documentation in the home and completely recording all care delivery so that receiving staff have record of care delivered in a timely manner per agency policy and procedures.
• Oversight and delegation of the plan of care within the care team as appropriate to LPNs and CNAs.
• Assuming professional responsibility for current nursing practice and clinical standards of care.
• Participating in agency continuous quality improvement (QAPI) and performance improvement project (PIP) activities as required.
• Assuming other leadership roles as required by the department.
• Responsible for holiday coverage, select weekend and evening coverage call for agency and patient home visits as required on a rotating basis.
• Performing 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
• Sign on and relocation benefits available to qualified candidates!
• Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree