Travel Nurse (RN) - Hospice

Required Skills/Experience:
Hospice on-call and admissions experience are required.

Unit Details:
Identify each patient's and family's physical, psychosocial, environmental, safety, and developmental needs and individualize the patient's plan of care based on the needs identified.
Document problems, nursing assessments, appropriate goals, care provided, care interventions, and patient and family outcomes achieved from interventions and care provided.
Assess all aspects of the patient's pain and develop an individualized pain management plan.
Anticipate, prevent, and treat undesirable symptoms or secondary symptoms.
Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings to establish, review, and revise the plan of care for each patient, including exchange of information, review of problems, and sharing of professional support.
Maintain up-to-date patient records to ensure that problems, plans, interventions, and goals are accurately and clearly stated and changes are reflected as they occur.
Teach appropriate interventions, medications, effects, and side effects to patients, caregivers, volunteers, and others as appropriate.
Implement care to achieve outcomes of comfortable and safe dying, self-determined life closure, and effective grieving for patients and families.
Identify and address comfort care needs.
Support, instruct, and educate patients, families, and caregivers.
Coordinate all patient and family services.
Maintain the dignity of the dying patient.
Support the patients' and families' unique spiritual and cultural beliefs.
Provide holistic, family-centered care across treatment settings to improve quality of life.
Consult and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and others involved in patients' care.
Provide care consistent with National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization standards of practice for hospice programs.

Shift & Scheduling:
The on-call RN schedule is 7 days on/7 days off.
Saturday and Sunday coverage is 8a-8p or 8p-8a, and Monday-Friday coverage is 5p-8a.

Floating Requirements:
Must be flexible to potentially move from the Waco area to the Fort Worth territory if there is no longer a need in Waco.

Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

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