Job Description

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) to join our hospice care team. In this role, you will provide holistic, patient-centered care to individuals with terminal illnesses, ensuring comfort, dignity, and quality of life during their end-of-life journey.

As a Hospice Nurse, you will assume responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualized care plans. You will utilize the nursing process, incorporating advanced technology, therapeutic interventions, evidence-based practices, and seamless coordination with an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

Your expertise and empathetic approach will support not only the patients but also their families, offering guidance and emotional support during this critical time.

What Does It Mean to Be Part of Our Hospice Team?

Home is where families gather, memories are cherished, and comfort is found. It is where moments of connection, peace, and dignity matter most.

At Intermountain Health, we have the privilege of caring for patients and families during one of life's most meaningful journeys. As a Hospice RN, you will provide compassionate, expert care that focuses on comfort, symptom management, and quality of life, allowing patients to spend their time in the setting they cherish most.

Working alongside an interdisciplinary team of physicians, social workers, chaplains, aides, and therapists, you will help guide patients and families through the end-of-life journey with empathy, skill, and clinical excellence.

As a Hospice RN, you will coordinate and deliver individualized care, advocate for patient needs, provide education and emotional support to families, and ensure patients receive the highest level of compassionate care.

Why Work With Us?

• Meaningful Work Every Day: Make a lasting difference by supporting patients and families during one of the most important times in their lives.
• Build Meaningful Relationships: Spend quality time with patients and families while providing personalized, holistic care.
• Autonomy and Professional Growth: Utilize your clinical judgment while working independently and collaboratively with an interdisciplinary care team.
• Patient-Centered Care: Focus on comfort, dignity, and quality of life through evidence-based hospice practices.
• Work-Life Balance: Monday through Friday schedule, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with opportunities to make a meaningful impact outside of a traditional hospital setting.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and social well-being. To that end, we have launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Current RN License in state of practice.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification for healthcare providers.
• Current driver’s license, insured and reliable transportation and an acceptable driving record
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• RNs with less than 12 months of working experience as an RN prior to joining Intermountain must obtain their BSN within 4 years of their hire date.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).

Preferred Qualifications

• One year of nursing experience in Hospice, Home Health, Palliative Care, Oncology, Critical Care, or Medical-Surgical Nursing.
• Experience providing care in patients' homes or community settings.
• Strong communication, care coordination, and patient advocacy skills
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required as of the job description's last update on 4/27/2025. Employees hired or promoted prior to this date will be held to the minimum requirements that were in place at the time of their promotion or hire.

Why Join Intermountain Health Hospice?

At Intermountain Health, hospice care is more than a service, it's a calling. We are committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered care that honors each individual's goals, values, and end-of-life wishes.

• Mission-Driven Care: Join a not-for-profit healthcare organization dedicated to helping people live the healthiest lives possible through compassionate, high-quality care.
• Supportive Interdisciplinary Team: Collaborate with experienced physicians, social workers, chaplains, aides, therapists, and fellow nurses who share a commitment to exceptional hospice care.
• Autonomy and Trust: Practice independently while receiving the support and resources needed to make meaningful decisions for your patients and families.
• Professional Development: Access ongoing education, leadership development, and career growth opportunities across one of the nation's leading health systems.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, generous paid time off, retirement benefits, and comprehensive health coverage designed to support you and your family.
• Purposeful Work: Build meaningful relationships with patients and families while making a lasting difference during life's most important moments.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Hospice - Denver

Work City:

Wheat Ridge

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$37.45 - $57.29

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment. I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain. Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

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