Hospice Nurse Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Licensed RN in the State of Michigan
• Experience in acute care, home care, or hospice preferred
• Proven health assessment, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to make independent judgments directing patient care.
• Able to meet Home Health and Medicare standards through criminal background check and fingerprinting.
• Possess current Michigan motor vehicle license, ability to drive a car and an insured vehicle capable of transport to patient homes or other offices in various weather conditions.
• Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella.
• MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.

Responsibilities

• Manages an assigned caseload from admission through discharge using a framework of assessment, planning, coordination, and evaluation.
• Completing comprehensive assessments (including OASIS when required), developing and updating individualized plans of care, and providing skilled nursing services across preventative, rehabilitative, palliative, and end-of-life needs.
• Educates and counsels patients and families on disease processes, symptom management, and self-care, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members such as Home Health Aides, Therapies, Social Work, Chaplaincy, and Bereavement Services.
• Supervises LPNs and paraprofessionals, communicates changes in patient condition to physicians and team members, secures necessary equipment and supplies, and maintains thorough, timely documentation within the electronic medical record.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• in-person and online development
• access to our career hub to help you advance
• Full benefits
• paid holidays
• generous PTO
• employee discounts
• free individual retirement counseling
• Free wellness platform for you and your family
• personalized support for personal or family challenges