Job Description
Do you have a "Hospice Heart"? If your answer is yes,then you are just the nurse we are looking for. When days cannot beadded to a life, we add life to remaining days. Ourmultidisciplinary teams offer culturally-sensitive, end-of-life andpalliative care services to patients and their families at home orin assisted living communities, skilled nursing facilities andhospitals. Ask about our Sign On Bonus!!! In this field basedposition, you will visit MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care patientsto perform both physical and psychosocial assessments andelectronically document visit occurences. Patient visits will bemade in both community and facility settings. As the Hospice FieldCase Manager, you will develop and implement nursing plans of careand make recommendations for care based on patients' needs. Asneeded, you will contact the patient's physician to request writtenorders to facilitate plan of care changes. In addition, you willalso supervise, train and evaluate home health aides and homemakersworking with our hospice patients. The schedule includes workingone weekend per month and functioning in a backup On Call capacity2-3 times per month. home care, nursing, RN, homecare, nurse,hospice, home care hospice, hospice nurse, hospice rn