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Registered Nurse (RN) – Hospice Case Manager

Own the plan of care and lead the team around each patient and family.

Pay range
$38 – $52 per hour ($79,000 – $108,000 annualized)
On-call stipend and mileage reimbursement paid in addition to base rate.
Schedule & reporting
Full time or part time · Field based with on-call rotation
Reports to: Director of Nursing
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Position summary

The Hospice RN completes admissions and comprehensive assessments, develops and updates the plan of care with the interdisciplinary team, and coordinates all care delivered to an assigned caseload.

Essential duties

  • Complete admission visits, initial and comprehensive assessments within required timeframes.
  • Develop, update and individualize the plan of care with the patient, family and IDG.
  • Manage pain and symptoms, obtain physician orders and adjust medications as authorized.
  • Supervise LPN and aide visits and complete required supervisory documentation.
  • Teach families to give medications, recognize changes and use comfort kits.
  • Provide death visits, pronouncement where permitted, and bereavement handoff.
  • Keep documentation compliant with Medicare hospice Conditions of Participation.

Requirements

  • • Current unencumbered Arizona RN license.
  • • One year of nursing experience; hospice, palliative or home health strongly preferred.
  • • Current CPR certification and negative TB screening.
  • • Valid Arizona driver license, reliable vehicle and current auto insurance.
  • • Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card (or eligibility to obtain).

Preferred

  • • CHPN certification.
  • • Experience with electronic hospice charting and IDG facilitation.

Interview questions

These are the questions we ask for this role — applicants are welcome to prepare, and hiring managers use them for every interview so candidates are compared fairly.

  1. 1.Describe an admission where the family was not ready to hear the word hospice. How did you handle it?
  2. 2.How do you titrate opioids for a restless, actively dying patient, and what do you tell the family?
  3. 3.A facility nurse gave a medication that was not on your plan of care. What do you do?
  4. 4.How do you keep a caseload of 12–14 patients compliant with visit frequency requirements?
  5. 5.Tell me about a time you disagreed with a physician's order.
  6. 6.What do you do in the first ten minutes of a death visit?

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The entire new hire packet is completed and signed online — application, handbook, I-9, W-4, TB screening and policy acknowledgments. Nothing to print.

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