Hospice Nurse Resume Samples

Description :

1. Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
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3. Traveled throughout 30 miles territory to provide hospice-home-healthcare services to pediatric, adult, and elderly patients diagnosed with terminal conditions.
4. Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
5. Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
6. Educated patients and their families on pain medication administration, G-tube feeding, illness and conditions.
7. Ensure all patient and family's needs are met and ensure I upheld the highest standard of patient and family satisfaction by addressing questions, concerns, and needs in an outmost compassionate manner at all times.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Nursing

Description :

1. Assess home setting and advised families of medical equipment and supply to ensure patients' safety.
2. Work with assigned numbers of patients up to 25 patients weekly.
3. Work with Doctor and Team to provide care, administer medication.
4. Monitor health conditions and advise patients and their families on current prognosis.
5. Consulted and coordinated with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans, and modified accordingly based upon patient response to care and condition.
6. Provided hospice care to patients and families through sharing, caring and providing a home-away-from-home to meet all medical needs and desires.
7. Care of patients with terminal illness in-home, pain management, IV therapy, wound care, port cath care.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

MSN In Nursing

Description :

1. Clients seen at homes, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals to assess the present status of declining in health.
2. Ordered medication refills, F/U with referred MD and carried out new orders.
3. Performed assessments included vitals, pain level and location, symptoms management, functional status, and report given to RN case manager.
4. Skills Used Communication, skills-knowledge based, and a good listener.
5. Collaborated with multidisciplinary care providers, oncology physicians, and pain clinic staff to plan and manage patient care.
6. Visited patients and their families in their homes assessing needs, providing support, and assisting with pain relief.
7. Care for the dying made sure that Pt and family were are peace took v/s, charted on Pt called the doctor with new findings and took a phone order and carried them out took a call to back up RN.
8. Provider of Comfort Care including, repositioning, bed baths, meal prep, and companionship, administration of op opioid/ narcotic medications.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Senior

Education

Nurse

Description :

1. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
2. Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
3. Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
4. Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
5. Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
6. Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
7. Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
8. Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Diploma

Description :

1. Maintain a patient's quality of life in their home.
2. Destroy narcotics and any other medications that are not used.
3. Making a difference in someone's life is so rewarding.
4. Helping them cross over and not to be afraid.
5. Provide direct care to pediatric and adult patients who are facing a terminal illness.
6. Perform physical and emotional assessment and complicated symptom management, patient and caregiver teaching and supportive counseling to patients and their families coping with end of life issues.
7. Provided comfort care and emotional support for patients and families both in homes and in facilities, ordered supplies and medications, provided crisis care when needed.
8. Provided optimal care for terminally ill patients including blood glucose monitoring, pain management via intravenous drug administration, case management, and documentation according to Medicare guidelines.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Nurse Consulting

Description :

1. Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
2. Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician and ensure patients take their medicine.
3. Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
4. Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, wheelchairs, or automobiles.
5. Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as adapting to disability or illness.
6. Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
7. work to maintain the comfort and quality of life for those who are diagnosed with terminal diseases.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Vocational In Nursing

Description :

1. Assess patient home care needs including physical emotional and spiritual.
2. Assist patients and family members with concern and compassion.
3. Assume case management responsibility and provide direct care as outlined in the Interdisciplinary Plan of Care.
4. Performed ongoing evaluations and assessments to revise initial plan of care as the needs of the patient changed.
5. Reviewed authorized coordinated and supervised contracted vendors to meet the needs of patients.
6. Attended patient care conferences regularly.
7. Participated in on-call rotations and provided care and service after hours.
8. Coordinated community resources and programs to provide assistance to patient and family members as applicable.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Business

Description :

1. Responsible for providing end-of-life care and hospice services to patients in their home or community setting.
2. Assisting in planning for the patient's and family's care under the direction of the RN.
3. Provide skilled nursing care as directed and described in the interdisciplinary plan of care.
4. Administer medication and treatments as ordered by the physician.
5. Responsible for maintenance of electronic/paper medical records, assuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with regulations, certification standards, legal and ethical standards.
6. Support, instruct and educate the patient, family, and caregiver.
7. Maintain the dignity of the dying patient.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Vocational In Nursing

Description :

1. Provided continuous care for terminally ill and dying patients.
2. Followed palliative plan of care under doctors, registered nurses, pharmacists and social workers.
3. Gained strong and lasting skills for end of life care and compassion.
4. Developed sense of community by interacting with families from all backgrounds in time of loss.
5. Skills Used Strong critical thinking to observe and assess change in patient condition.
6. Organizational skills to prioritizes patients needs.
7. Communication skills with patients and their loves ones to teach and help understand end stages of life and loss.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Nurse

Description :

1. Provide nursing and palliative care to hospice patients.
2. Utilized a pain rating scale, administer medication.
3. Provide patient/family teaching regarding expected course of disease diagnoses and health measures.
4. Provide non-pharmaceutical methods to control pain.
5. Report observation and documents key information to physician, Case Manager and supervisor, and work in cooperative with other member of the nursing care team.
6. Participate in staffs in service programs, educational programs and trainings.
7. Maintain a positive and professional attitude and Perform post-mortem care tasks.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

Health Program

Description :

1. Worked as part of a team to ensure proper care of body mechanics and the safety of the patient.
2. Partnered with a team of Registered Nurses to ensure the overall well-being of all patients.
3. Often commended for maintaining the safety, respect, and dignity of clients.
4. Coordinated with doctors and registered nurses to develop care plans for patients.
5. Interviewed patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
6. Maintained patient charts and confidential files.
7. Tested glucose and administered injections.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Nursing

Description :

1. Provided care to terminally ill patients in crisis in hospice inpatient unit.
2. Assess patient home care needs including physical emotional and spiritual.
3. Managed a weekly caseload of 35 patients throughout Coffee County and surrounding counties.
4. Assisted in dressing and undressing patients.
5. Transferring patients safely from their beds to treatment rooms.
6. Educated families, caregivers, and others in wound care, patient comfort, and personal care.
7. Trained new hires in bed side procedures and handling patients.

Experience

7-10 Years

Level

Management

Education

Nursing