Job Description

Job Location: Spicewood - Austin, TX 78759
Position Type: 24 HRS - .6 FTE
Job Shift: After hoursJOB TITLE: RN After Hours
DEPARTMENT: Clinical Services
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
REPORTS TO: Team Leader, After Hours
SUPERVISES: None
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
All comments, actions and behaviors have a direct effect on the public’s perception of Hospice Austin. Interactions with patients, family members, physicians, referral sources, visitors, co-workers, etc. must be in a manner that is courteous, respectful, cooperative and professional. This behavior should promote an atmosphere of teamwork and positive relations.
EQUIPMENT/MACHINERY USED:
Office equipment, automobile, infusion pump, enteral feed pump, CADD pump, nebulizer, oxygen concentrator and tank, suction equipment.

POSITION SUMMARY:
Provides nursing care for patients as directed, responds to urgent changes in patient condition or provides routine case management in lieu of primary case manager.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Provides nursing care.
- Performs initial and ongoing assessment of the impact of the terminal diagnosis on the patient's physical, functional, psychosocial, and environmental needs, activities of daily living, risk for pathological grief, cultural and spiritual implications, and verbal and non-verbal communication patterns.
- Performs nursing assessments, i.e. Vital signs, pain assessment, breath sounds, etc.
- Triages patient care problems.
- Manages discomfort and provides symptom relief.

QualificationsMINIMUM TRAINING, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Graduation from an approved school of professional nursing as determined by the Board of Nurse Examiners.
- Licensed as a Registered Nurse by the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners.
- Valid Texas driver’s license, auto liability insurance and safe driving record.
- CPR certification.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 1-year previous Hospice nursing experience.