Triage Registered Nurse - Gilchrist Weekender
Core
Triage Registered Nurse responsible for managing patient and caregiver telephone calls, providing symptom palliation, education, and immediate emotional support to families, particularly at the time of death.
Role type
Triage Registered Nurse
Builds
Support services for terminally ill patients and their families
Domain
Healthcare / Hospice and Home Health
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Triage, symptom palliation, patient education, emotional support, EMR usage, infection control, problem-solving, prioritization, multi-tasking
Preferred skills
Home Health or Hospice experience, experience with triage
Responsibilities
Triaging patient and caregiver calls, serving as a liaison with physician offices, providing immediate response and emotional support to families at the time of death, coordinating changes in patient level of care, communicating with insurance case managers, assisting with pharmacy issues, ordering supplies and durable medical equipment, coordinating equipment pick up, trending calls to identify improvement opportunities, deploying staff to address assessed needs