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Job Description
This is an after hours RN position working weeknights, Monday - Thursday from 5:00 pm until 8:00 am. You will respond to telephone requests (from home) for assistance and perform home visits, when needed, for hospice and palliative care patients and families in their home setting after-hours.
- Answer and respond to incoming calls, referrals, and requests for assistance, completes admissions into care, and make follow-up visits on patients admitted the day prior; as necessary.
- Communicate significant findings, problems, patient’s needs, reports changes in condition or environment to the physician, clinical manager and other members of the hospice care team and obtains physician orders as required.
- Maintain flow of communication between in-house staff, field staff and other departments, for coordination of activities and services.
- Participate as a member of the interdisciplinary team in patient care conferences
Qualifications
- Current and unencumbered license to practice as a Registered Nurse. An employee is this role is only able to provide clinical guidance to patients in states in which the employee possesses a current and unencumbered license.
- Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)documents the following: The mutual recognition model of nurse licensure allows a nurse to have one license (in his or her state of residency) and to practice in other states (both physical and electronic), subject to each state’s practice law and regulation. Nurses must legally reside in a NLC state to be eligible to have a multi-state license.See list ofNurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
- Minimum of one (1) year of nursing experience required.
- Current CPR certification
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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