Hospice Admissions Nurse Erie County

at  UPMC

GROWING OUR FAMILY HOSPICE TEAM OF RNS FOR ERIE COUNTY, PA

Are you a nurse looking for a rewarding career where you can provide direct, one-on-one patient care? Family Hospice in Erie is hiring caring, skilled, and compassionate registered nurses to join our hospice nursing team! You’ll work in a home setting with a diverse patient population throughout the greater Erie area. Working outside of a medical facility, you’ll have an opportunity to get to know patients as you guide their end-of-life care in the comfort of their homes.
Monday - Friday flexible daylight shifts with rotations for on-call and weekends. You will support various locations in Erie and surrounding areas.
As an RN with UPMC Home Healthcare, you’ll collaborate with our team of specialized nurses, rehabilitation therapists, social workers, dieticians, aides, and trained administrative staff to provide personalized patient care in a home setting.

• Your role as the nurse will establish patients’ plans of care in collaboration with physicians, patients, and utilization management (UM) professionals to meet physicians’ orders and patients’ needs.
• RN will coordinate case management activities across a multi-disciplinary health care team to ensure appropriate, quality patient care.
• Initiate, deliver, and evaluate patient- and family-centered health teaching.
• Strive to help patients achieve optimal health outcomes, delivering compassionate care with an emphasis on the patient’s experience.
• Complete all required documentation including visit assessments, OASIS, 485 and verbal orders accurately and promptly on a laptop or in written documentation while in the patient’s home and according to all applicable regulatory standards.
• Attend compliance training and adhere to the organization’s standards of conduct, policies, and procedures in addition to all local, state, and federal regulatory guidelines.
• The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below.
• They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.
• Zero to one year of experience.
• Completion of UPMC student nurse internship, nurse residency, or student clinical transitions course at UPMC preferred BSN preferred.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, caring relationships with executives, managers, physicians, non-physician providers, ancillary and support staff, other departments, and patients/families.
• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities and specialized equipment.
• Critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving abilities are required as related to various aspects of patient care.
• Good clinical judgment. Critical thinking skills are necessary to exercise and to lead others in the application of the nursing process.
• Mobility and visual manual dexterity. Physical stamina for frequent walking, standing, lifting, and positioning of patients.