**Department** : Hospice **Daily Work Times:** 4:30pm-8:00am **Shift** : Overnights **Scheduled hours per pay** : 80 **Position Summary:** The registered nurse is a professional nurse who coordinates the delivery of nursing care for monitored patients during their hospital stay including cardiac monitoring, hemodynamic stabilization, responsive to emergent situations and care of evidence-based medicine patients. The registered nurse ensures that quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the Michigan Department of Public Health, the medical center and nursing department standards. Utilizing the nursing process, functions primarily in direct patient care. The registered nurse participates in maintaining a safe patient care environment, maintains patient privacy, dignity, confidentiality and respects patient’s rights. **Essential Functions and Responsibilities:** Under the direction of the Clinical Manager, provides comprehensive health care services to patients and their families through direct care and supervision. * Performs comprehensive initial and ongoing assessments of patients/families. * May participate in development of initial plan and ongoing plan of care in collaboration with IDT Team. Revises the plan of care as needed. * Informs the patient upon admission to Hospice of the mechanism for receiving, reviewing and resolving patient complaints. * Uses assessment skills to determine patients’ physical and mental status and status of environment and social support. * Identifies patients’/families’ health and social issues and potential problem areas. * Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. * Current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan. * Two years of recent clinical experience, preferably in hospice, home care, oncology, gerontology, or surgical nursing required. * Must have the ability to work near fumes such as wound odors, home odors and cigarette/cigar/pipe smoke. * Must have an active State of Michigan Driver's license. * Must provide proof of insurability.