RN On Call Hospice Job at Peoples Home Health, LLC, Pensacola, FL

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  • Peoples Home Health, LLC
  • Pensacola, FL

Job Description

Description:

Position Summary:

Responsible as a member of the interdisciplinary team to the Administrator for the provision of skilled nursing assessment and hospice care to maximize the comfort and health of patients and families consistent with agency policies and procedures. Will provide skilled nursing, intervention, and supportive care in patients' homes for weekend, holiday, evening, and night on-call duty in accordance with the Interdisciplinary Team plan of care for each patient.

Requirements:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

  1. Assume responsibility for evening, weekend, and holiday on-call duty as scheduled and consistent with agency policies and procedures.
  2. Assume primary responsibility for agency total care census including assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating phases of the nursing process.
  3. Initiate communication with attending physicians and other community resources to report changes and coordinate optimal care and use of resources for the patient/family.
  4. Obtain data on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that may influence patient/family health status and incorporate that data into the plan of care as indicated.
  5. Maintain up-to-date patient records so that problems, plans, actions, and goals are accurately and clearly stated, and changes are reflected as they occur.
  6. Monitor physical care of the patient by instructing primary caregivers, volunteers, and employed caregivers.
  7. Respond to medical or emotional crisis and/or death of patient and make home visit to provide direct care as appropriate.
  8. Provide appropriate counsel at time of death.
  9. Demonstrate familiarity with policies of the agency and rules and regulations of community, State and Federal bodies which relate to the delivery of home health/hospice services.
  10. Accept other assignments as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

  1. Possession of current license to practice as a registered professional nurse in the state of Florida.
  2. Minimum two years of recent varied work experience as a professional nurse and preferably one of the two years in an acute, oncology, home health, and/or hospice setting.
  3. Demonstrated ability to assess and respond to the needs of patients and families in varied settings.
  4. Demonstrated skill in nursing practice, ability to cope with family emotional stress and tolerance of individual lifestyles.
  5. Availability to work evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and the employee will also perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by his/her immediate supervisor or other management.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee travels by automobile and is exposed to changing weather conditions. The employee works in varied residential environments based on assigned caseload.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to see, talk, or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, reposition patients; use hands and fingers to feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently lifts and moves up to 50 lbs. 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and the employee will also perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by his/her immediate supervisor or other management.

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Job Tags

Work experience placement, Immediate start, Night shift, Afternoon shift,

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