RN Inpatient Unit

Mishawaka, Elkhart openings MAIN PURPOSE: FLSA: Non-Exempt Responsible for direct and indirect patient care in meeting holistic (total, comprehensive) needs of the patient. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Patient Care: • Performs an initial and ongoing comprehensive assessment of the patient’s and family’s physical, psychosocial, environmental, safety and spiritual needs. • Develops an individualized plan of care based on a comprehensive assessment in conjunction with the patient’s and family’s goals. • Prepares, administers, and supervises holistic patient care. • Assesses all aspects of the patients’ pain and comfort, developing and implementing an individualized pain management plan, in collaboration with the hospice medical staff. • Consults and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team (IDT) and other agencies involved in the patient’s care. • Supports the patient, family, and caregiver in medical decision making and unique spiritual and cultural beliefs. • Performs admissions as assigned. • Communicates appropriate information and participates at IDT meeting, as needed. • Demonstrates proper body mechanics when performing patient care, utilizing appropriate techniques to accomplish tasks. Documentation: • Accurately records and reports pertinent facts and observations regarding patients. • Communicates appropriate information during shift change. • Helps to provide continuity of care between team members by ensuring verbal and written reports are clear, concise, and timely. • Documents any and all teaching in patient record. Teaching: • Teaches patient self-care. • Teaches those parts of patient care appropriate for each family to provide. • Assists the patient’s family with understanding the illness, plan of care, and needs of the patient. • Assists the patient’s family, or ECF staff, with understanding the illness, the dying process, plan of care, and needs of the patient. • Teaches the patient and family their rights regarding hospice care and benefits. Inpatient Unit RN Page 2 • Serves as preceptor/mentor to other staff nurses and Aides. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS: • Committed to Agency resolution against fraud and abuse. • Knowledgeable in hospice philosophy and state and federal rules and regulations. • Arrives to work and meetings on time and ready to work. • Respects confidentiality of patients/families and other Agency employees. • Attends educational meetings/conferences for professional growth as required. • Attends and completes yearly nursing skills validations. • Sees change as an opportunity and maintains a level of flexibility, which allows for adaptation to new ways of performing. • May be required to work either IPU based on staffing needs and/or acuity • Accountable to supervise/direct CNA’s • Follows directions and policies that allow for an organizational commitment to working under time pressures without sacrificing quality. • Performs other duties that may be assigned.