Weekends/Afterhours RN Hospice Full-time

UnitedHealth Group•Searcy, AR

About The Position

Explore opportunities with Elite Hospice, a part of LHC Group, a leading post-acute care partner for hospitals, physicians and families nationwide. As members of the Optum family of businesses, we are dedicated to helping people feel their best, including our team members who create meaningful connections with patients, their families, each other and the communities we serve. Find a home for your career here. Join us and embrace a culture of Caring. Connecting. Growing together. As the Afterhours Registered Nurse’s your primary focus is to conduct comprehensive and timely delivery of hospice care for patients and their families after regular business hours, including at night and on the weekends. You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Requirements

Current unrestricted RN licensure in the state of practice experience
Current CPR Certification
1+ years of clinical experience
Current driver's license, valid vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle, or public transportation

Responsibilities

Able to triage patient needs over the phone until a nurse can provide an in-person visit
Responds appropriately and with urgency to crisis calls from patients and families afterhours
Makes the initial nursing evaluation in determining eligibility for hospice services, as part of a patient visit, within forty-eight (48) hours of referral if assigned
Competent to perform afterhours visits including admission visits, death visits, recertification visits, and routine visits
Identifies the patient/family's physical, psychosocial, emotional, and environmental needs and reassess them as needed, no less than every fifteen (15) days
Documents problems, appropriate goals, interventions, and patient/family response to hospice care