Weekend Afterhours RN $2500 Sign on Bonus

The Weekend Afterhours Registered Nurse's Primary focus is to conduct comprehensive and timely delivery of hospice care for patients and their families after regular business hours, including at night and on the weekends.

• Able to triage patient needs over the phone until a nurse can provide an in-person visit.

• Responds appropriately and with urgency to crisis calls from patients and families afterhours.

• Makes the initial nursing evaluation in determining eligibility for hospice services, as part of a patient visit, within forty-eight (48) hours of referral if assigned.

• Competent to perform afterhours visits including admission visits, death visits, recertification visits, and routine visits.

• Identifies the patient/family's physical, psychosocial, emotional, and environmental needs and reassess them as needed, no less than every fifteen (15) days.

• Documents problems, appropriate goals, interventions, and patient/family response to hospice care.