Hospice RN, Weekends

Summary

Provide skilled nursing assessment, planning, and coordination of services in order to maximize the comfort and health of patients and families, under the general direction of the Medical Director and/or the attending physician. Educate contracting facilities and community members and meet with multidisciplinary team and groups to market hospice services.

Essential duties and responsibilities

include the following. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.

• Accurately complete required documentation within 24 hours of patient visit
• Assume responsibility for a patient/family caseload that includes the assessing, planning and implementation, and evaluation phases of the nursing process
• Initiate communication with attending physicians, multidisciplinary hospice team members, and agencies as needed to coordinate optimal care and use of resources for the patient/family
• Communicate with physicians, agencies, and team to coordinate patient/family care
• Obtain data on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that may influence patient/family health status and communicate that data in team meetings to formulate an Interdisciplinary Plan of Care
• Maintain up-to-date patient records so that problems, plans, actions, and goals are accurately and clearly stated and changes are reflected as the