When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Description:
- Manage care of patients, coordinate all services and facilitate communication between all providers.
- Provide skilled nursing care and prescribed treatments to patients and families in their home.
- Provide documentation of services utilizing problem-oriented record.
- Plan for continuity of care with nursing team members, patient, family, and other disciplines.
- Use opportunities for teaching nursing care, comfort measures and health practices to the patient, families and others.
- Instruct and supervise care given by the Hospice Aides.
- Communicate and coordinate with other health and social agency personnel to assist in planning, implementing, evaluation service to the patient and family.
- Completion of Hospice Item Set (HIS) time points. Accepts accountability for patient satisfaction scores and quality of care outcome measure results.
- Completes and documents an initial assessment of patient and family, as assigned, to determine hospice care needs. Provides a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es).Develops a patient specific plan of care, which establishes goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates therapeutic, preventive, and palliative nursing actions, with emphasis on pain and symptom management. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
- Initiates the plan of care, as assigned, and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.
- Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician.
- Counsels the patient and family in meeting patient needs related to physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Participates in the weekend/holiday/on-call rotation as defined by BILH at Home.
- Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.
- Participates in in-service programs and supervises, teaches and precepts other nursing personnel as assigned by Clinical Manager.
Pay Range:
$83,200.00 USD – $129,626.00 USD
The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.
