RN, Registered Nurse - VHS Hospice

Join us at Virginia Health Services, where your passion for compassionate care can transform lives. We commit to prioritizing quality of life and want to help you live your best life too!

Recognizing you have many options; Virginia Health Services is committed to investing in its team members and offers the following benefits:

• Competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to ensure our team members are valued and rewarded for their hard work.
• Holiday pay is available for 11 worked holidays, paid at DOUBLE time.
• Paid time off and sick time available as you accrue it (no waiting period).
• Early wage access to some of your paycheck before payday with Netspend Earned Wage Access.
• Group health insurance that includes medical, dental, vision and an employee assistance program.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
• Referral program with the ability to earn as much as $1,500 for each new hire you refer.
• Training and development opportunities offered in-house at our state-of-the-art Employment, Enrichment and Education (EEE) Center.

We are dedicated to fostering a supportive environment that values innovation and collaboration, ensuring every team member plays a vital role in enhancing the quality of life for those we serve. Together, let’s make a difference!

Locally owned and headquartered in Newport News, Virginia since 1963, Virginia Health Services believes that compassionate care is the foundation of a healthier future. Our commitment extends beyond traditional healthcare; we strive to create lasting relationships that empower individuals and families on their journey to wellness with dignity and respect.

Virginia Health Services Hospice, is currently hiring Full Time and Part Time, Registered Nurses, throughout Southeastern, VA!

Essential Job Duties (include, but are not limited to the following):

• Provides skilled nursing services in accordance with the orders of a physician and under a plan of care in a patient’s home. Has the responsibility for the observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, counsel, care and health teaching of the ill, injured, or confined, and the maintenance of health and prevention of illness of others.
• Records the health needs of the patient.
• Performs and completes start-of-care, recertifications, resumption-of-care, and discharge Comprehensive OASIS assessment and associated paperwork in accordance to agency policy.
• Initiates Plan of Care, revises as necessary.
• Evaluates the effects of the care given and regularly reevaluates the patient’s nursing needs.
• Provides those services requiring substantial specialized nursing skill based on the physician’s orders and the nursing diagnosis. Examples of such services include, but are not limited to; physical assessment, patient and family teaching, urinary catheter insertion and care, venipuncture and administration of IV fluids or medications, dressing changes, sterile and nonsterile.
• Initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures.
• Counsels the patient and his/her family in meeting nursing and related needs.
• Acts as the coordinator of the health care team in order to maintain the proper linkages with a continuum of care.
• Coordinates the care of all patients in his/her case load.
• Makes referrals to other agencies or services as needed.
• Provides summary reports to the patient’s physician about patient under care when the patient’s condition changes or there are deviations from the plan of care, or at least every 60 days.
• Prepares clinical and progress notes on the relevant and specialized nursing services he/she provides and maintain a clinical record for each patient receiving care.
• Submission of documentation per agency policy.
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