Position Summary:

Supports hospice patient care, providing appropriate nursing interventions and collaborating closely with members of the interdisciplinary team. Performs case management and intermittent visits for home and facility-based hospice patients.

Essential Functions:

1. Performs initial and on-going patient assessments for comfort and palliative patient care

2. Establishes and implements an individualized plan of care for each patient

3. Assesses the need for patient and family education and provides education as needed

4. Obtains appropriate physician orders to achieve symptom management

5. Provides safe and appropriate skilled nursing care in accordance with protocols, policies, procedures and physician orders

6. Manages and administers medications according to standards

7. Documents in EMR in an accurate, concise and timely manner per standards

8. Demonstrates efficiency in visit schedule

9. Meets or exceeds departmental productivity standards, including number of visits per week.

10. Determines patient care needs for other team members as appropriate and observes and evaluates the effectiveness of their work

11. Makes referrals to additional IDT members and collaborates with social workers related to the involvement of additional IDT members

12. Fosters IDT collaboration by initiating communication to address PFC needs/updates of plan of care

13. Anticipates potential problems and establishes preventative measures

14. Performs effectively in emergency situations

15. Follows OSHA and agency regulations in the use of standard precautions, the management of controlled substances and biological

16. Provide basic personal care and ADL’s when appropriate

17. Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• R.N. required; BSN Degree preferred

• NJ RN license required, CHPN or OCN preferred, BLS training

• NJ driver’s license and insurance coverage required

• Minimum of one year nursing experience - medical/surgical, oncology, geriatric or related experience, hospice/home care experience preferred.

• 6 Weekends per year
  1 Holiday every other year

Join Our Team

Samaritan is a not-for-profit healthcare provider of life-enhancing care that includes primary care at home, palliative medicine, hospice care, and grief support. We are proud to be here for people, not for profit.

In return for your expertise, you'll enjoy excellent training, generous paid time off, and industry-leading benefits. Be a part of our great team! Apply today!

• Highly competitive salary.
• Generous paid time off.
• Excellent benefits package, supplemented with concierge services, including but not limited to vision, dental, life insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Account, travel reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, multiple discount programs.
• Opportunity to work from home.
• Career opportunities, promotional opportunities and work schedule flexibility.
• Holidays.
• 403 (b) and employer match.
• Annual employee milestone awards ceremony and recognition activities including peer recognition, and annual department celebrations.
• Samaritan is committed to inclusion, diversity, & access through board and staff committees and according to our employee surveys, employees are highly engaged, rate our management team as highly effective, and embrace our welcoming culture as demonstrated by the number of tenured employees.
• Training and professional development opportunities.
• Employee referral bonuses.
• Performance reviews, merit raises, and bonus opportunities.
• Conveniently-located administrative office with amenities such as an updated kitchen, think tank for brainstorming, quiet meditation room, private mother's room, and more.
• Opportunity to work for South Jersey’s first and largest hospice organization.

Providing Superior Care

Samaritan has been recognized by Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) as a “Superior Performer” for achieving an overall caregiver and family satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20% of all eligible SHP clients for the 2019 calendar year.

The annual SHPBest™ award program was created to acknowledge hospice providers that consistently provide high quality service to families and caregivers of patients receiving hospice care.

Not-for-Profit Provider

Our compassionate healthcare experts provide many options for people living with chronic or serious illness:

• primary care,
• supportive palliative medical care,
• hospice care,
• grief support,
• and two inpatient hospice centers.

Samaritan helps patients and their families live their best life every day and has been proudly serving the South Jersey community since 1980.