Overview:

Position will be a dedicated Hospice Educator, providing education and mentoring to hospice nurses in a classroom and field setting while maintaining skills by visiting patients in their home

 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintain a thorough knowledge of the Medicare/Medicaid Hospice benefit including admission criteria, philosophy and services.

 

• Educate, mentor and precept Hospice clinical staff to assist them in being successful and knowledgeable in their roles.

 

• Maintain current knowledge of clinical issues, regulatory and reimbursement standards.

 

• Evaluates performance of new staff and modifies teaching and orientation plans/milestones in coordination with the Education Team.

• Evaluates, teaches and mentors clinicians in Hospice case management and interdisciplinary care planning

• Completes team member evaluations at end of introductory period

• Participates in the development of staff performance management/improvement plans, including monitoring and improvement strategies

• Assesses and monitors clinical competency of assigned staff during introductory period and ongoing

Reviews visit documentation, including:

o Assessments

o Care Plans

o Medications

o POC

o IOT notes

 

• Collaborates with Assistant Managers to support:

• Daily Scheduling

• Staff and Patient problem solving

 

• Cross training and coverage of Assistant Managers, staff & Hospice CRC:

• Duties assigned to Assistant Managers

• POC review

• Review Admission/Recert visits

• Hospice Admission Coding

• CTI completion

• Work Que management

 

• Field Expectations:

• Maintains a minimum productivity of X # of visits per week which may include:

o Joint Visits

o Overflow of Admissions

o Managing Caseload

o Additional Coverage as needed

• Reviews visit documentation including:

o Assessments

o Care Plans

o Medications

o POC

o IDT Notes

 

• Attends mandatory meetings as required.

 

« Rotates into Weekend/On call schedule as needed.

  Qualifications for Internal Candidates    

Job Qualifications/Experience 

 

Required:

• Current NJ RN License

Associates in Nursing

 

Preferred:

• BSN preferred

« CHPN preferred

• 3-5 years' experience as a RN in Hospice/Palliative Care or related field

» 2-3 years' experience in Hospice supervision/education preferred

• Pain and symptom management skills

• Knowledgeable in the signs and symptoms associated with the end of life

• Excellent computer skills, problem solving skills

• EMR experience, EPIC preferred