Overview:
Pay range: $84k - $105k based on experience
Use your nursing skills to make a difference.
Hospice nurses provide end of life care to help ensure the comfort and quality of life for their patients. They primarily work in collaborative, team-driven environments that require frequent communication with their patients, families and other caregivers. The ideal candidate should be detail-oriented, patient and calm. Hospice nurses are caring and kind individuals who possess a special hospice heart who can help our patients celebrate the rest of their lifes journey.
Responsibilities:
Hours of operation: 9pm - 7:30am and every other weekend
JOB SUMMARY
- Serves as a team leader in supervising, assessing, planning, guiding and evaluating patient care.
- Interacts with management, physicians, and field staff utilizing a teamwork approach.
- Assists with training and evaluation of all team clinical personnel; and maintenance/development of the clinical record.
- Processes all Electronic Medical Record workflow from Admission to Discharge.
Qualifications:
- Education/Regulatory Requirements:
- RN degree from a college or university, accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing and/or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education preferred.
- Currently licensed and registered in the State of Florida.
- BSN and/or Hospice certification preferred.
- Current Basic Life Support Certification.
- Skills:
- Two years of recent oncology, medical/surgical, or home health, public/health experience.
- Expertise in support skills, palliative care, and educational techniques.
- Long term care experience preferred.
- Ability to supervise other Hospice care personnel.
- Able to coordinate with other health care providers in the delivery of patient care.
- Able to work effectively with lay and professional volunteers.
- Flexible, creative, assertive, articulate, nurturing and self-nurturing.
- Homecare Homebase software experience a plus.
- Able to work well under stress and deadlines.
- Demonstrates organizational, administrative and personnel management skills.
- Professional Requirements:
- Communicates clearly and effectively in writing and verbally.
- Language Skills:
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.