Job Description
Job Title/Position: Hospice RN Travel Nurse Reports To: Clinical Supervisor Get the best of both worlds and be a hero! Travel the region experiencing journey after journey and have the security of employment at the same time. The Stillwater Hospice locations that need your assistance will love your willingness to help! Come join an amazing and growing team at Stillwater Hospice. At nine locations and growing Stillwater has succeeded in the end of life space by prioritizing team members within the organization.
Salary: $105,000 - $115,000 + benefits
per diem for travel days!
BENEFITS FOR FULL TIME POSITIONS
- Health Insurance
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- 100% match up to 4%
- No vesting period
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Accrual of PTO starts immediately
- Flexible Work Schedule with Work/Life Balance
- Stillwater University for learning and development
Job Description Summary
The Hospice RN Travel Nurse is a registered nurse that plans, organizes and directs hospice care and is experienced in nursing. They travel the region where help is needed and is a breath of fresh air for the hospice locations that they positively impact. Although this position is based in Billings, MT, expect to work in many different locations. Areas commonly worked are Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, Great Falls, Missoula, Kalispell, Northern Wyoming and Rapid City, SD. The professional travel nurse is dedicated to medication and comfort care to meet the needs of individual and families within their homes and communities.
Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Willing to travel to a variety of locations based on needs and directed by the Regional Director of Clinical Services.
- Compact Licensed needed in order to work across state borders
- Completes an initial, comprehensive and ongoing comprehensive assessment of patient and family to determine hospice needs. Provides a complete physical assessment and history of current and previous illness(es).
- Provides professional nursing care by utilizing all elements of nursing process and as defined in the state Nurse Practice Act.
- Assesses and evaluates patient’s status by:
- Writing and initiating plan of care
- Regularly re-evaluating patient and family/caregiver needs
- Participating in revising the plan of care as necessary
- Initiates the plan of care and makes necessary revisions as patient status and needs change.
- Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.
- Develops a care plan that establishes goals, based on nursing diagnosis and incorporates palliative nursing actions. Includes the patient and the family in the planning process.
- Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures. Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician in the physician’s plan of care.
- Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs.
- Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan.
- Assists the patient with the activities of daily living and facilitates the patient’s efforts toward self-sufficiency and optional comfort care.
- Acts as Case Manager when assigned by Clinical Supervisor and assumes responsibility to coordinate patient care for assigned caseload.
Communication - Completes, maintains and submits accurate and relevant clinical notes regarding patient’s condition and care given. Records pain/symptom management changes/outcomes as appropriate.
- Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports changes in the patient’s condition; obtains/receives physicians’ orders as required.
- Communicates with community health related persons to coordinate the care plan.
- Teaches the patient and family/caregiver self-care techniques as appropriate. Provides medication, diet and other instructions as ordered by the physician and recognizes and utilizes opportunities for health counseling with patients and families/caregivers. Works in concert with the interdisciplinary group.
- Provides and maintains a safe environment for the patient.
- Assists the patient and family/caregiver and other team members in providing continuity of care.
- Works in cooperation with the family/caregiver and hospice interdisciplinary group to meet the emotional needs of the patient and family/caregiver.
- Attends interdisciplinary group meetings.
Additional Duties
- Participates in on-call duties as defined by the on-call policy.
- Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services
are available. - Supervises ancillary personnel and delegates responsibilities when required.
- Assumes responsibility for personal growth and development and maintains and upgrades professional knowledge and practice skills through attendance and participation in continuing education and in-service classes.
- Fulfills the obligation of requested and/or accepted case assignments.
- Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities.
Position Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. One (1) to two (2) years of recent acute care experience in an institutional setting, and one (1) to two (2) years of recent experience in home care.
- Current licensure in State.
- Must be a licensed driver with an automobile that is insured in accordance with state and/or organization requirements and is in good working order.
- Bachelor’s degree, with one (1) year of hospice care experience preferred.
- Management experience not required. Responsible for supervising hospice aides.
- Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, basic math skills; nursing skills per competency checklist.
- Prolonged or considerable walking or standing. Able to lift, position and/or transfer patients. Able to lift supplies and equipment. Considerable reaching, stooping bending, kneeling and/or crouching. Visual acuity and hearing to perform required nursing skills.
Job Tags
Full time, Immediate start, Flexible hours,