Registered Nurse

Company: DKMRBH
Location: Kokomo
Posted on: January 9, 2021

Job Description:

Education and/or ExperienceRegistered Nurse in the state of employment and two to three years' nursing experience required.Bachelor's degree and experience in healthcare marketing preferred. Hospital and/or long-term care clinical experience highly preferred.--- Salesforce training for documentation--- PPS--- LCDs for Hospice--- HH eligibility - admission requirements--- HH COPs--- FLACC Pain Assessment--- Nonpharmacologic management of Delirium, swallow dysfunction, Agitation,--- PDGM knowledge and training (Deep understanding of diagnosis requirements)--- Risk scoring/data analysis - Care Delivery Scorecard; disease prediction scores--- GOC Worksheet--- Discussing Bad news/Prognosis - Common Techniques--- Identifying and resolving conflicts--- Introduction to Cultural competency--- REMAP mnemonic--- POLST/DNR/ACP Directives--- Introduction to end-of-life practices/spiritual history--- Generic Organ Specific, Disease Based Prediction Rules - NYHF; ICH Score; BODE; MELD; Seattle Heart Failure; ePrognosis; APACHE--- Medicare Home Health Benefit HH - Skilled need, homebound status determination--- Medicare Hospice Benefit- Prognosis 6 months or less, palliative care, General Dx and LCDs- Estimating and communicating Prognosis/Disease Trajectory--- Ventilator Withdrawal Guidelines--- How to make an ethics consultation--- GIP eligibility/guidelines/Visit documentation within the EMR--- Care during the last hours of lifeMathematical SkillsAbility to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage.Language SkillsAbility to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from leaders, colleagues, investors, and external parties. Strong written and verbal communications.Reasoning AbilityAbility to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or schedule form.Computer SkillsProficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.Other QualificationsStrong organizational and time management skills. Must be able to work a flexible schedule to include nights and weekends. Must be able to travel.Certifications, Licenses and RegistrationsA valid driver's license and auto liability insurance.Job Requirements:Responsibilities: --- Regularly meets with physicians in the hospital to discuss specific patients: - Documents interaction in salesforce. - Gives guidance and provides understanding of post-acute service support - Ensures continuity of care as a priority - Communicates data sets to clinicians (e.g., predictive analytics, prognostic scores). --- Grand rounds attendance: - Networking --- Hospital case managers (rounding or interactions in step with hospital): - High-risk patient review. --- Aligns with cadence of patient review - prognostication, data analytics, risk-profiling. --- Collaborates with existing palliative care in hospital: - Supports transition to home health and hospice services. - Educates on hospice/home health benefit. --- Develops genuine collegial relationships with other Ascension professionals: - Identifies times and meets regularly with clinicians to problem solve, review cases. - Capacity to conduct and complete Goals of Care discussions/Advance Care --- Planning/Resuscitative Preferences: - Acquires knowledge to complete POLST/MOLST/DNR, as needed. - Understands disease trajectories; explains risk/benefits of treatments. --- Communication: - Understands steps to offering a difficult prognosis. - Identifies barriers that patients/families have towards understanding prognosis. - Understands how to interact with difficult patients/families. - Identifies steps to having a successful family meeting. --- Defines Surrogate Decision Maker: - Develops communication skills to support patients/families with difficult discussions or differing points of views. - Understands roles and responsibilities of the surrogate decision-maker especially around admission/POC. --- Maintains documentation of patient/family goals of care: - Know how to complete a GOC visit using Compassus tools. --- Understanding of common symptoms at end-of-life: - Develops awareness of symptoms at end-of-life and last week of life. - Understands how to support families in responding to changes, use of WHEN/THEN tools. --- Grief and Bereavement support: - Knows how to appropriately console and identify who needs additional support. - Provides tools and resources to support grief and bereavement. - Maintains current list of admission coordinators for each healthcare service line. --- Aligns recommendations between patient/family and Primary care team: - Identifies patient preferences/needs. - Identify patient's post-acute care needs - Confirm the level of care most appropriate for the patient - right care, right time. - Educates patient on Homebound criteria and verifies patient meets these requirement - Facilitate 'transition to home' planning including assessing post-discharge needs and developing and implementing transition to home plan --- Sets patient-centered goals and facilitating transitions: - Understands how to identify patient/family specific treatment goals. --- Arranges for hospice home admission - communication with the Hospice team. --- Coordinates patient care by obtaining H&P, physician orders, hospital records and face to face documentation in a timely manner. --- Verifies patient demographic information is correct. --- Coordinates organization of transfer orders; educates patient on home care orders and home care services. --- Identifies primary care physician to follow the plan of care. --- Conducts follow-up on re-hospitalized home health patients. --- Participates in home health re-hospitalization mitigation strategies member of the strategy team. --- Performs admissions to hospice for GIP. o Oversees GIP care in Ascension hospital: - Rounds daily on in-patient hospice patients. - Provides communication between the attending and hospice. --- Develops ability to understand and digest claims data, use of predictive analytics. --- Ensures excellent customer service to maintain and grow the business in the identified key accounts. --- Consistently works to improve personal knowledge and sales skills to become of greater value to our most important customers and to the organization. --- Meets or exceeds assigned quotas, thereby maintaining and constantly improving the HH's competitive position. --- Performs other duties as assigned.

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