RN Night Call Hospice

Responsibilities

The Registered Nurse Hospice Night Call provides skilled nursing care for Hospice home care patients following physicians’ orders and the established Plan of Care. The primary responsibilities for this evening and night on-call position are as follows:

Triage phone calls received after hours to provide phone support or home visits for current Hospice patients

Make home visits to provide care as appropriate

Admit patients to Hospice services (including associated documentation)

Coordinates and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team ensuring the enactment of the Plan of Treatment.

Education

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• ADN, BSN, MSN
  
  

Licensure/Certification

• Current and valid Registered nurse license in the Commonwealth of Virginia or from a state that is part of a Compact agreement with Virginia
• CPR
• CHPN Certification preferred, but not required
  
  

Experience

• Requires one year of recent Medical/Surgical Experience
• Home health or hospice experience preferred, but not required
  
  

Job Duties

• Night Call
• Phone Triage. Respond to patient/family calls assuring the evaluation of the situation and appropriate level of response needed to meet patient/family needs for support and care
• Make home visits as needed to meet patient/family service requirements in accordance with physician’s orders and Care Plan goals, including admissions, routine visits, and symptom management visits.
• Make home visits to pronounce patients at time of death, support family and provide post-mortem care
  
  

Medications

• Completes 5 Rights with 100% compliance. Knowledge of medications used.
• Knowledge and use of high risk medications.
• Ability to perform calculations for mixtures/solutions.
• Reconciles patient medications and performs DRR.
  
  

Evaluation- Evaluate Patient Outcome

• Updates plan of care based on continuing assessment of patient outcomes.
• Documentation reflects nursing interventions, patient responses, as well as follows through with patient outcomes.
• Evaluation of age specific instruction/teaching is demonstrated and documented through monitoring of the learning process, seeking feedback from patient and family, and return demonstration if appropriate.
  
  

Assess/Plan- Assess and develop individualized needs and plan of care:

• Assessments are complete and appropriate for patient’s age, special care needs, and patient's knowledge level, psychosocial, emotional, physical, and spiritual status.
• Reassessment is timely and performed as patient condition warrants.
• Documentation of assessment is timely.
• Communicates assessment data as necessary to interdisciplinary team members.
• Appropriate referrals are made with evidence of follow-up documentation in the medical record.
  
  

Some Benefits Of Working At Augusta Health Include

• Generous paid time off to promote work life balance
• Free onsite parking
• Shift and weekend differentials
• Tuition reimbursement
• Onsite child care
  
  

Company Information

Augusta Health is a mission-driven, independent, nonprofit, community health system located in Fishersville Virginia in Virginia’s scenic Shenandoah Valley. Augusta Health offers a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient which includes Augusta Medical Center a 255-bed inpatient facility and Augusta Medical Group which is comprised of 40 practice locations and four urgent care locations.

Equal Opportunity

Augusta Health recruits, hires and promotes qualified candidates for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran or military discharge status, and family medical or genetic information.

About Augusta Health

Augusta Health opened in 1994 to continue a tradition of personalized care with small-town hospitality that began with predecessor hospitals in Staunton and Waynesboro. Today, our highly trained physicians and staff use state-of-the-art technology to provide top quality care with warmth and compassion. We offer many amenities so patients and families can be comfortable and close during difficult times Quick Stats for 2022 255 beds 225 active medical staff 2,450 employees 50 volunteers 74 hospice volunteers 59,573 emergency visits 10,324 admissions 892 babies delivered 549 new cancer patients 585,703 outpatient visits to Augusta Medical Group clinics 293,795 other Outpatient Registrations (this includes Home Health, Laboratory, Outpatient Surgery, Imaging, etc.) 61,166 Urgent Care Visits