Weekend RN

Company: YoloCares
Location: Davis
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description Ranked nationally two years in a row as a ---Best Places to Work--- by Modern Healthcare, this growing northern California nonprofit healthcare organization is seeking an experienced and innovative RN who is squarely focused on collaboration, relationship management, and education. YoloCares (formerly Yolo Hospice) is Joint Commission accredited and the only organization in the Sacramento region to be accepted into the esteemed National Partnership for Hospice Innovation. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS 1. Completes the nursing assessment of assigned patients. Maintains an ongoing assessment within hospice guidelines to determine if patient fulfills hospice criteria. 2. Provides ongoing professional nursing care for each assigned patient. Regularly assesses and reevaluates patient nursing needs and related patient/family support needs. Reports findings to supervisor and updates problems and IDT as appropriate. 3. Responsible for overseeing physical and emotional care of each assigned patient by teaching needed nursing care and support skills to patient and/or involved family caregivers, per nursing assessment and per patient---s Plan of Care. 4. Provides instructions regarding medication, activity, diet, symptom management, safety, expected disease progression and the dying process when in accordance with the patient---s Plan of Care with Attending Physician input. 5. Provides appropriate aftercare for each patient at the time of his or her death. JOB QUALIFICATIONS 1. A current license in the State of California as a Registered Nurse. 2. Three (3) years of recent clinical nursing experience is required. Experience in home care or hospice care is preferred. 3. Must demonstrate strong clinical nursing skills an understanding of, and commitment to, the general philosophy and goals of hospice care. Company Description YoloCares is a non-profit, community-based organization, driven by our mission to serve patients, their families and the community. We provide a unique healthcare option to those with life-limiting illness: emphasizing quality of life. We provide comfort where no comfort is felt.

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