Hospice Nurse

Founded in 1967 Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed acute care nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael California. Serving over 100000 patients annually the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center Level III NICU heart care cancer care womens health and neurology. Additionally Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.

One Community. One Mission. One California

As our per diem day Hospice Registered Nurse (RN) you will help bring compassionate care treatment and support directly to the homes of hospice patients and their families so the family can care for their seriously and life-threatened loved one at home especially when facing a prognosis of six months or less.

Every day you will deliver direct patient care and expertly coordinate with a diverse team including physicians nurses social workers counselors (including dietary) chaplains home health aides and volunteers. You will ll be expected to meet discipline-specific productivity standards demonstrate clinical competency through observation and ensure strict compliance with all agency state and federal regulations.

To be successful in this role you must be a California-licensed driver with valid car insurance. This enables you to be on call for any patient needs that arise after hours providing support when the interdisciplinary team is off and could include admissions to bring patients onto hospice services when needed.

• Meets the discipline-specific productivity standard.
• Demonstrates competency in the care of patients during field observation by the clinical supervisor.
• Completes and submits documentation following established guidelines as measured by defined evaluation processes and tools.
• Documents follow-up of identified problems reviews and documents clinical progress toward goals and physician orders are written according to policy.
• Demonstrates coordination of care by appropriate communication with other disciplines and documents that communication as measured by defined evaluation/audit processes. (doc. communications IDT notes progress notes etc.).
• Demonstrates compliance with agency processes to meet State regulatory and Federal Conditions of Participation requirements as measured by defined evaluation processes (i.e. U.R review Patient Care Planning Admit IDT processes etc.)

• Minimum One (1) year Hospice nursing (LVN or RN) experience in the past five (5) years
• Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
• Current California Drivers License Auto Insurance and access to an operating motor vehicle.

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Science in Nursing
• Public Health Nurse (PHN) certificate
• Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN) certificate

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