Job Description

Role:

• To provide quality, compassionate care to patients and families by providing wholistic care to alleviate end-of-life symptoms, provide education on disease trajectory, and aggressive support in the home and community nursing facilities

Requirements

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

•Evaluate physical needs of the patient using a wholistic approach

•Coordinate medication administration, education and assure accuracy

•Evaluate the need for other services

•Communicate patient/family information to the interdisciplinary team

•Coordinate the development of the plan of care with goals defined by the patient/family and the hospice team, updating at least every 14 days and as changes occur

•Provide nursing services according to the plan of care

•Make referral to other services as needed in coordination with the medical social worker

•Supervision of home health aide

•Teach the primary caregiver/family by role model, repetition, and reinforcement

•Provide ongoing supervision along with assessment of continuing needs for patient/family teaching

•Instruct caregivers in hospice emergency responses and changes to anticipate

•Make regular visits as determined by the IDG and as needed

•Provide the patient/family with information concerning the disease process, the regimen of treatment process, and alternative methods of care

•Respond to questions honestly and realistically

•Help the patient/family make informed choices

•Promote independence and responsibility throughout the course of the disease

•Provide emotional support

•Actively listen to patient and family concerns

•Support individual coping mechanisms

•Provide services at the time of death

•Assist with bereavement follow-up by attending receiving or funeral services as appropriate

•Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions on a regular basis and whenever changes occur in the patient/family situation

•Communicate with physicians as needed and as required by regulations

•Maintain current knowledge and competency in providing care to terminally ill patients and their families

•Provide on-call services as scheduled

•Assist with nursing care on patient care unit as directed by supervisor

•Assist with assessing patient appropriateness for continued services

•Assist with visits to palliative care patients as needed

•Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

• Current NC license as a registered nurse
• Active patient contact or completion of a nursing refresher course within the past three years

Experience:

• Not applicable

Licensures & Certifications: (if applicable):

• CPR certification

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