Registered Nurse (RN)

Sans Bois Hospice provides palliative care and services to patients and their families. The services and care we provide comes from a hollistic approach that best benefits our patients and their families. Our Registered Nurses provides skilled services to the patients in the home setting.

Job Duties

• Provides skilled nursing services in accordance with the orders of a physician and under a plan of care in a patient’s home. Has the responsibility for the observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, counsel, care and health teaching of the hospice patient and family.
• Performs, completes and documents initial and ongoing assessment of the impact of the terminal diagnosis on the patient’s physical, functional, psychosocial and environmental needs and activities of daily living including:

a. Risk for pathological grief

b. Cultural and spiritual implications

c. Verbal and non-verbal communication patterns

• Initiates IDT Plan of Care with consultation from the basic IDT members, attending physician and medical director. Reviews and revises the plan as necessary.
• Determines the scope and frequency of services needed based on acuity and patient/family needs.
• Applies specific criteria for admission and re-certification to hospice care to establish appropriate levels of care and the patient’s eligibility.
• Assesses the ability of the caregiver to meet the patient’s immediate needs upon admission and throughout care. Shall evaluate and document the appropriateness and ability of the patient or family member’s administration of medications.
• Completes all required consent, election and notification paperwork.
• Evaluates the effects of the care given and regularly reevaluates the patient’s nursing needs.
• Provides those services requiring substantial specialized nursing skill based on the physician’s orders and the nursing diagnosis related to palliative and end-of-life care. Examples of such services include, but are not limited to; appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures, physical assessment, managing discomfort and providing symptom relief, patient and family teaching, urinary catheter insertion and care, venipuncture and administration of IV fluids or medications, sterile and nonsterile dressing changes.
• Counsels the patient and his/her family regarding the disease process including self-care techniques, end-of-life care and the processes for dealing with issues of ethical concern.
• Dietary counseling, when identified in the plan of care.
• Reviews medication use with the patient and/or family and provides medication information, counseling and education when appropriate.
• Uses the case management approach and acts as the coordinator of the interdisciplinary team in order to maintain the proper linkages with a continuum of care.
• When a patient is a facility resident, will coordinate the implementation of the plan of care with the facility and will respond to questions and concerns from the nursing facility.
• Informs the attending physician, medical director and other personnel of changes in the patient’s needs and outcomes of intervention.
• Participation in on-call rotatation is required.

Requirements

• Oklahoma or compact state RN license in good standing with the Board of Nursing
• CPR Certification

Benefits

• Health and dental insurance
• Life Insurance
• Aflac with vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Simple IRA retirement option
• Company car and fuel card.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $64,000.00 - $68,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Medical Specialty:

• Hospice & Palliative Medicine

License/Certification:

• RN License (Required)
• CPR Certification (Required)

Work Location: On the road

Salary : $64,000 - $68,000