Per diem Hospice Triage Nurse - Remote - MUST HAVE CA RN LICENSE
About the position Mission Hospice & Home Care serves patients and families in the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay with quality care and compassionate end-of-life support and education. Founded in 1979, we are a local, independent nonprofit that has provided thousands of patients and their families with physical, emotional, and spiritual support throughout the journey from a life-threatening diagnosis through death and bereavement. The Hospice Triage RN will receive phone calls from Hospice patients and families. They will assess the needs of the patient and family, and coordinate the needed care and/or scheduling of home visits as needed. The triage nurse will collaborate with the transdisciplinary team members and facilitate communication among the transdisciplinary team, Hospice, and the patient’s Attending Physician.
Responsibilities
- Receives phone calls from hospice patients and families
- Assesses the needs of the patients and families to coordinate needed care over the phone and scheduling visits as needed
- Managing patients’ pain and symptoms pursuant to physicians’ orders; obtaining changes in orders as need and updating the patient’s plan of care and medication list accordingly
- Assessing the patient and family’s needs for home visits, contacting the appropriate clinicians to schedule the visit, and notifying the patient and family of expected visit times
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited nursing program
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a professional nurse within the last five (5) years
- At least one (1) year of hospice or palliative care experience
- Experience working effectively with an interdisciplinary group
- California RN license
Nice-to-haves
- CHPN certification
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