RN - Hospice Outpatient
Company: Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Location: Albuquerque
Posted on: March 20, 2025
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Job Description:
Overview: The Outpatient Hospice team is seeking an experience
Hospice Registered Nurse (RN) to join the team. In this role you
will be responsible for direct patient care and case management of
Hospice patients in outpatient settings. Ensures that end-of-life
care is delivered within quality and utilization guidelines and is
directed toward the achievement of desired clinical outcomes for
patients and their families. Responsible for development,
coordination and scheduling delivery of care through a
multidisciplinary team to the patient in the home or community
setting. The RN Case Manager assures completeness, timeliness and
appropriateness of the patient care plan, its implementation, and
ongoing evaluation. Assures communication with the
multidisciplinary team, support services and community resources to
ensure that plan of care goals are achieved in the most efficient
and cost-effective manner possible. Ensures that documentation is
timely, accurate, complete, and reimbursable. Is a patient
advocate. Precepts newly hired nurses.
Sign on and relocation bonuses available for qualified
candidates.
Type of Opportunity: Full Time FTE: 1.0 (40 Hours per Week)
Work Schedule: Days
How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.
Qualifications:
a. Completes assessments that are timely, and appropriate of
physical, mental, psychological/social (behavioral), functional,
financial, treatment, resource, and spiritual needs of
patients.
b. Provides skilled nursing care services by planning, organizing,
directing, coordinating, evaluating, and documenting all aspects of
nursing care in accordance with physician/APC plan of care.
c. Coordinates patient's care through collaboration with
patient/care giver, multidisciplinary team, and physician/APC.
d. Intervenes consistently with orders and changes interventions
with orders to meet changes with patient/care giver needs.
e. Evaluates each visit the effectiveness of interventions and the
patient's response to intervention.
Provide direct patient care by assessing patient for care needs,
resources to meet needs and developing a hospice plan of care in
conjunction with physician. Assures completion of required
assessments according to regulations for hospice and QAPI
measures.
Coordinates implementation of the plan of care through a
multidisciplinary home care team, community resources and
physician/APC.
Ensures plan of care is followed and that documentation complies
with regulatory requirements.
Maintains a department productivity standard for visits and
caseload management.
Demonstrates professional accountability for self-scheduling
patient case load with appropriate frequency and duration, and
concurrently updates schedule throughout the day as needed so that
ongoing patient needs can be met.
Assure patients on case load are notified timely of their visits,
any unplanned schedule changes, and accommodate patient's preferred
schedule as available.
Precepts newly hired nurses, students and serves as a resource
person and professional role model as needed.
Maintain communication with the multidisciplinary team s and
assures that orders for necessary care plan changes are obtained
and communicated timely to the team.
Initiates documentation in the home and completely records all care
delivery so that receiving staff have record of care delivered in a
timely manner per agency policy and procedures.
Oversight and delegation of the plan of care within the care team
as appropriate to LPNs and CNAs.
Assumes professional responsibility for current nursing practice
and clinical standards of care.
Participates in agency continuous quality improvement (QAPI) and
performance improvement project (PIP) activities as required.
Assumes other leadership roles as required by the department.
Responsible for holiday coverage, select weekend and evening
coverage call for agency and patient home visits as required on a
rotating basis.
Performs other functions as required.
Benefits:
We're all about well-being, starting with yours.
Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique
wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms,
nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation
resources, wellness challenges and more.
Learn more about our employee benefits.
Presbyterian is committed to an inclusive and equitable environment
where everyone is valued and empowered for success. We believe that
our environment should reflect the diversity of our community.
About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members and
the communities we serve. We are a locally owned, not-for-profit
healthcare system comprised of nine hospitals, a statewide health
plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New
Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with
nearly 13,000 employees - including more than 1,200 providers and
nearly 3,500 nurses.
Our health plan serves more than 640,000 members statewide and
offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and
Commercial health plans.
AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer
with smoke free campuses.
Maximum Offer for this position is up to: USD $51.00 Compensation
Disclaimer: The compensation range for this role takes into account
a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience
and training, internal equity, and other business and
organizational needs.
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