Home Hospice Registered Nurse

Job Description

The Opportunity :

Saint Luke’s Home Care and Hospice has an exciting new opportunity for a full-time Registered Nurse to take overnight and weekend call and make hospice and home care visits in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

This position is part of our Seven-On / Seven-Off alternative staffing plan, which offers superb work-life balance and flexibility.

Shift : An employee accepted into this role will be scheduled to work seven consecutive days. You will be on-call from 5 : 00 pm through 8 : 00 am Monday through Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday.

You will make hospice visits while on call during the week and will help on weekends by making home care and hospice visits.

You will then be off for the following seven days so you will enjoy 26 weeks of time off per year with the opportunity to pick up extra visits during your off weeks if you desire.

The Work :

• Taking home care and hospice call during night hours and weekends. Triaging calls and meeting the callers needs as appropriate.
• Performing hospice visit at night and on weekends.
• Performing start of care and routine home care visits on weekends.
• Performing appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures including wound and ostomy care on weekends.
• Educating the patient and family members on following the care plan and medication administration.
• Candidates must have an active Missouri and Kansas RN License.

Why St. Luke’s Home Care :

We value our nurses’ knowledge, experience, and expertise to improve patient outcomes and provide quality care. Our nurses are compensated fairly for their hard work and dedication to our patients, we offer competitive salaries and benefits packages to all eligible employees :

• Medical health plans
• Continuing Education Assistance and Tuition reimbursement
• Leave of Absence, PTO, Extended Sick Leave, and various Welfare plans
• Retirement contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Clinical Advancement Program Shared Governance, Unit Based Project, Career Advancement

For more than 30 years, Saint Luke's has set the standard for home care and hospice services throughout the Kansas City area.

Saint Luke’s Home Care is one of the regions premier providers of a continuum of health care in the home, and led by clinicians with decades of experience in the Home Health and Hospice industry.

And as part of Saint Luke’s Health System, we deliver the same high-quality, comprehensive, and compassionate care.

Job Requirements

Applicable Experience :

Less than 1 year

Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Driver's License - Various, Registered Nurse - Various

Associate Degree

Job Details

Full Time

Night (United States of America)

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