About this role
If you are passionate about our mission and dedicated to providing compassionate end-of-life care, we invite you to join our resource pool by applying. By doing so, we can keep your information on file and may reach out when a role aligns with your skills and interests. Together, we can continue making a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and their families.
JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Use the nursing process to establish a nursing care plan in accordance with established policies and standards of care.
- Provides high-quality care to patients, work 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)
- Maintain records, reports and forms that are accurate, and contain quality content per documentation policies.
- Anticipate patient/family needs and utilize the interdisciplinary team and community resources appropriately.
- Anticipate and initiate nursing interventions to prevent complications and alleviate symptoms of physical and psychological discomfort so an optimum quality of life may be maintained.
- Anticipate and meet emergency or crisis situations both physical and emotional.
- Teach the patient and family the plan of care, its goals, and the implications of the diagnosis and prognosis.
- Teach and counsel family members and patients in energy-saving techniques and skills to help maintain the patient at home.
- Interact with all members of the interdisciplinary team and provide nursing aspects to help plan the total needs of the patient/family.
Qualifications
Education:
- Preferably a Bachelor of Science in nursing preparation.
Certification:
- Current Louisiana license.
- Current CPR certification.
Work Experience:
- At least two years of experience as a staff nurse in either an acute care setting (general medical-surgical, oncological, or geriatric) or home care setting.
Special Skills:
- Ability to assess and respond to needs of patients and families in the home
- Ability to work independently as well as on an interdisciplinary team.
- Supportive and sensitive to needs of patients and families, as well as other staff and volunteers.
- Able to cope with the emotional stress of patient, family and self that ensures when rendering nursing care to dying patients.
- Humanistic attitude toward patient/family care.
- Tolerant of individual lifestyles.
Other Requirements:
- Good physical assessment skills and computer skills.
- Good communication skills and techniques with facilities, patients, families, physicians, and office staff.
- Installation of company communication application on cellular device.
- Must be in good physical condition.
- Must have own transportation and provide proof of liability insurance which meet state requirements.
- Must be able to travel to and from all patient homes without assistance.