Registered Nurse (RN) Job Description
Omni Care Hospice strives to create an exciting, challenging and rewarding work environment that allows you to flourish. As a dynamic company, we offer many career opportunities.
We are currently looking for a Full Time RNCM to join our growing team. As an RNCM you will head the interdisciplinary team and manage a caseload of patients. You have the ability to create your own schedule and dictate when your patient visits will be. Each full time RN is required to be on-call one day out of the week for additional compensation. You will know the on-call schedule a month in advance.
Qualifications:
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing - NEW GRADS WELCOME
- Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Nevada
- Active CPR Certification and current TB test
- Reliable mode of transportation with active an auto insurance policy
- 1 years Hospice experience NOT required BUT preferred
Skills/Requirements:
- Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.
- Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
- Develops a care plan that establishes goals, based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates palliative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
- Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures. Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician in the physician's plan of care.
- Communicates with the physician regarding the patient's needs and reports changes in the patient's condition; obtains/receives physicians' orders as required.
- Communicates with community health related persons to coordinate the care plan.
- Teaches the patient and family/caregiver self-care techniques as appropriate. Provides medication, diet and other instructions as ordered by the physician and recognizes and utilizes opportunities for health counseling with patients and families/caregivers. Works in concert with the interdisciplinary group.
- Works in cooperation with the family/caregiver and hospice interdisciplinary group to meet the emotional needs of the patient and family/caregiver.