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Job Title: Registered Nurse - Hospice
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Job Title: Registered Nurse - Hospice
Location: Meredith, NH, and surrounding towns
Job Type: Full-time
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Join our award-winning team today!
Recognized as the Best of the Lakes Region for Visiting Nurses in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 with a 5-star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, LRVNA is an employer you can be proud to work for.
Why is LRVNA an amazing place to work?
- Flexible Scheduling: Enjoy the ability to create your own schedule.
- Supportive Environment: Work in a friendly setting where you get to know your patients and their families.
- Community focused: For over 100 years LRVNA has provided exceptional care to our neighbors throughout the NH lakes region.
- Competitive wages & comprehensive benefits: Including over 3 weeks PTO for full-time employees, 401K with 4% match, and affordable health insurance!
The Hospice Registered Nurse acts as the Case Manager for their hospice clients. They work closely with all the members of the Interdisciplinary Team (IDG) to create a highly personal and individualized plan of care for their hospice clients. They are responsible for organizing and directing the services for hospice clients, their families and caregivers based on identified needs and client/ family goals.
The Hospice Registered Nurse is experienced in nursing, with an emphasis on community health, as well as having experience with hospice, palliative care and /or end of life care.
We offer Full-Time, Part-Time, Baylor, and Per Diem hours with excellent salary and benefit packages. While hospice experience is beneficial, we provide training for the right individuals. Strong clinical support and educational resources are also available.
Patient Care
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Completes an initial assessment of patient and family to determine any immediate needs and brings them to the Interdisciplinary Team (IDG) immediately to address.
- Completes the HIS within two days of the election of hospice and again at discharge, in accordance with the hospice CoPs (Conditions of Participation).
- Completes nursing comprehensive assessment on admission and election of hospice.
- Coordinates with the IDG to ensure that all disciplines complete their assessments within five days of the election of hospice, in accordance with the hospice CoPs.
- Develops a care plan with the support of the IDG that establishes goals based on the clients diagnosis, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Prepares clinical notes and communicates with the primary physician/ hospice medical director every fourteen days.
- Communicates with the physician regarding the patients needs and reports changes in the patients condition.
- Obtains/receives physicians orders as required.
- Communicates with the entire interdisciplinary team to coordinate/ update the clients plan of care.
- Ensures that all required documentation is done and submitted on time in compliance with the hospice CoPs.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- 1-2 years of recent patient centered care/nursing experience.
- Current state licensure, CPR certification, and a valid drivers license.
- Bachelor's degree in nursing with one year of hospice care experience preferred.
- Strong observation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Physical capability to lift patients and equipment, with considerable walking, standing, reaching, bending, and kneeling.
- 401(k) and 401(k) match.
- Flexible schedule
- Health, dental, disability, life, and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Travel reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Prolonged or considerable walking or standing.
- Ability to lift, position, or transfer patients (up to 50 lbs.).
- Frequently reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, or crouching.
- Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills.
- Supervise and coordinate care with LPNs and LNAs.
If you are passionate about providing high-quality hospice care and want to be part of an award-winning team, apply today to join the Lakes Region Visiting Nurse Association. Visit our website at www.lrvna.org for more information and to submit your application.
- Referral rewards: Anyone is eligible to receive a referral reward if someone they formally recommend is successfully hired (employed past 180 days) for a full-time or part-time position with LRVNA. Please email [email protected] with your referrals contact information.
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