About This Role
Leading with heart and transforming end-of-life care, this role offers an opportunity to deliver personalized and meaningful hospice and palliative care to patients facing life-limiting illnesses. The Hospice RN serves as the primary point of contact for patients and families, guiding them through their hospice journey with dignity, comfort, and love.
Responsibilities
- Be the primary point of contact for patients and families, guiding them through every step of their hospice journey
- Deliver and document skilled, hands-on nursing care based on each patient’s individualized Plan of Care in their home, assisted living, or wherever they call home
- Perform initial and ongoing assessments to monitor patient condition and adjust care as needed
- Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team—including physicians, LPNs, CNAs, social workers, chaplains, and others—to build and refine personalized care plans
- Provide emotional, physical, and spiritual support not just to the patient, but to their loved ones as well—offering education, comfort, and bereavement guidance
- Teach caregivers how to care for their loved one safely and confidently, offering both practical training and emotional reassurance
- Communicate important updates in patient condition to the care team, ensuring timely and appropriate interventions
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date clinical documentation and follow infection control and compliance standards
- Support the organization's quality improvement and scheduling initiatives to ensure care is consistent, compassionate, and efficient
- Help patients and families understand and navigate topics such as medication administration, hospice philosophy and services, symptom and pain management, and end-of-life processes and expectations
- Perform comprehensive patient assessments and reassessments including in-person/telephonic RN assessments/screenings and provide education to patients, family members and caregivers as appropriate
- Deliver skilled nursing interventions and symptom management aligned with goals of care
- Develop and update individualized plans of care including patient visit frequency to meet individual needs and risk identification
- Coordinate care across interdisciplinary teams including consultation with physicians and nurse practitioners
- Provide patient and caregiver education regarding disease process, self-care techniques, end-of-life care, medications, nutrition and dietary needs
- Communicate change in condition, or signs and symptoms of decline to appropriate provider (e.g., NP, PCP, Hospice Physician)
- Support the continuity of care by recognizing and supporting home health, palliative and hospice referrals as appropriate and recognizing and supporting transitions in levels of care
