About This Role
This full-time weekday position involves delivering personalized, meaningful hospice and palliative care to patients facing life-limiting illnesses. The Hospice Registered Nurse acts as the primary point of contact for patients and families, guiding them through their hospice journey with dignity, comfort, and love. The role requires a limited after-hours on-call rotation.
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
