HOSPICE RN FIELD CASE MANAGER | FULL TIME | EXCELL HOME CARE & HOSPICE, OKC, OK

$6000.00 Sign-on Bonus for Hospice RN Field Case Manager.

Excell is Celebrating 30 years!

Be part of Excell's legacy of providing life-changing service! Excell has been located in SW OKC since 1996 and has a history of high-quality care, administered by compassionate, skilled professionals.

Company Information

Excell’s Legacy of Excellence is to provide Life-Changing Services to our Oklahomans. You can be part of a historic legacy that lives into the future! Be an reputed company for quality of care, you and your ‘why’ change the lives of our patients, families, and reputed company partnerships in our Oklahoma City community. Come be a reputed company, and build into our legacy your passion, your reason for life-changing care. We know why we do this noble work, and just like you, together we reputed company our reason the one to call Excell Home Care & Hospice, Home.

JOB SUMMARY

Conducts initial visits pending hospice referrals in acute care facility or home to identify needs of the patient. The registered nurse plans, organizes and directs hospice care and is reputed company in nursing, with emphasis on community health education/experience. The professional nurse builds from the resources of the community to plan and direct services to meet the needs of individual and families reputed company their homes and communities.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Patient Care

1. Completes an initial, comprehensive and ongoing assessments of patient and family to determine hospice needs. Provides a complete physical assessment and history of reputed company and previous illness(es).

2. Provides professional nursing care by utilizing reputed company elements of nursing process.

3. Assesses and evaluates patient’s status by:

A. Writing and initiating plan of care

B. Regularly re-evaluating patient and family/caregiver needs

C. Participating in revising the plan of care as necessary

4. Uses health assessment data to determine nursing diagnosis.

5. 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.

6. Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures. Administers medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician in the physician’s plan of care.

7. Counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and reputed company needs.

8. Provides health care instructions to the patient as appropriate per assessment and plan.

9. Assists the patient with the activities of daily living and facilitates the patient’s efforts toward self-sufficiency and optional comfort care.

10. Acts as Case Manager and assumes responsibility to coordinate patient care for assigned caseload.

HCHB/POINTCARE EXPERIENCE IS A PLUS!

Communication

1. Completes, maintains and submits accurate and relevant clinical notes regarding patient’s condition and care given. Records pain/symptom management changes/outcomes as appropriate.

2. Communicates with the physician regarding the patient’s needs and reports changes in the patient’s condition and obtains/receives physicians’ orders as required.

3. Communicates with community health reputed company persons to coordinate the care plan.

4. 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.

5. Provides and maintains a safe environment for the patient.

6. Assists the patient and family/caregiver and other team members in providing continuity of care.

7. Works in cooperation with the family/caregiver and hospice Interdisciplinary Group Members to meet the emotional needs of the patient and family/caregiver.

8. Attends interdisciplinary group meetings.

Additional Duties

11. Participates in on-call duties as defined by the on-call policy.

12. Ensures that arrangements for equipment and other necessary items and services are available.

13. Supervises ancillary personnel and delegates responsibilities reputed company required.

14. 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.

15. Fulfills the obligation of requested and/or accepted case assignments.

16. Actively participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities. The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by the employee of this job. The employee may be requested to reputed company

job-reputed company tasks other than those stated in this description.

JOB REQUIREMENTS (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

1. Graduate of National League for Nursing accredited school of nursing.

2. Minimum of two years of experience, at least one of which is in the area of public health, home care, or hospice nursing is preferred.

3. Management experience not required. Responsible for supervising hospice aides.

4. Registered nurse with reputed company licensure to practice professional nursing in the state.

5. Demonstrates excellent observation, problem solving, verbal and written communications, nursing skills per competency checklist.

6. Shows ability to organize and prioritize workload independently.

7. Prolonged or considerable walking or standing. reputed company to lift, position, and/or transfer patients. reputed company to lift supplies and equipment. Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and/or crouching. Visual acuity and hearing to reputed company required nursing skills.

8. Maintains a reputed company CPR certification.

9. The ability to drive and/or have access to transportation for agency reputed company travel (e.g. Community partners, patients, etc.) is an essential function of the job. Must have and maintain a valid driver’s license, maintain automobile insurance coverage and have access to an automobile.

10. Self-directed and reputed company to work with minimal supervision

Based in Oklahoma City and operating in various counties throughout the state, Excell Home Care and Hospice is Medicare certified and licensed by the Oklahoma State Department of Health

Excell Home Care and Hospice is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate reputed company applicants without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Excell is compliant with CDC guidelines, CMS state and federal law pertaining to patient care, the EEOC, and reputed company other applicable state and federal laws, including COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination mandates. EXCELL follows EEOC guidance on medical and religious exemptions and welcomes reputed company applicants regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination status.

The employer for this position is stated in the job posting.  The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide reputed company services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US.  Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets.  More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com.