ESSENTIAL

• Keep a positive attitude. Keep this organizations mission at the forefront of decisions.
• Maintain professionalism in all interactions with staff, patients, families and remember you are a representative of this organization.
• Uses the nursing process to establish a nursing care plan in accordance with established policies and standards of care.
• Provides high quality care to patients, works with families, relatives and/or other primary care persons to enable them to become dependable caregivers.
• Maintain The Perfect Visit Standards (ie: Quality Standards, Perfect Visits, No Service Failures, Documentation)
• Maintains records, reports and forms that are accurate, same day charting/documentation or by 10:00 am following day (completed and synced), and contain quality content per documentation policies.
• Anticipates patient/family needs and utilizes the interdisciplinary team and community resources appropriately.
• Anticipates and initiates nursing interventions to prevent complications and alleviate symptoms of physical and psychological discomfort so an optimum quality of life may be maintained.
• Anticipates and meets emergency or crisis situations both physical and emotional.
• Teaches the patient and family re: the plan of care, its goals, and the implications of the diagnosis and prognosis.
• Teaches and counsels family members and patients in energy-saving techniques and skills to help maintain the patient at home.
• Rotates weeknight and weekend on call.
• Interacts with all members of the interdisciplinary team and provides nursing aspects to help plan the total needs of the patient/family.
• Schedule nursing visits weekly based on individual care plans with 20 – 25 visits per week. Increased frequency with imminence of death.

MARGINAL

• Acts as a liaison between the hospice program and the patient’s primary physician.
• Supervises the Hospice L.P.N and aide activities in the home and documents this supervision per policy.
• Attends and participates in the weekly team conferences.
• Participates in agency and community programs as requested.
• Actively seeks continuous education in areas of hospice care, death and dying, symptom control, counseling, etc.
• Maintain current nursing licensure and CEUs.
• Recognizes the need for self-support (emotionally) and actively seeks assistance.
• Admits patients as needed.
• Provides updates to case managers as required.
• Participates in agency Performance Improvement activities.
• Will cross train and be willing to work at IPU when needed.
• Understand that scope of the job may change based on patient census and needs of agency.
• Makes at least one follow-up visit/contact with family after death of patient and documents per this policy.