**Description** **Introduction** Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:Registered Nurse Hospice Specialist CarepartnersCarePartners **Benefits** CarePartners, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include: + Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation. + Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more. + Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing + 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service) + Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock + Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance. + Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more + Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts + Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships + Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships) + Colleague recognition program + Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence) + Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income. Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards) **_Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location._** We are seeking a Registered Nurse Hospice Specialist G.I.P. for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply! **Job Summary and Qualifications** **Role Summary:** Responsible for providing direct patient care in accordance with physician’s orders, recognizing standards of practice and establishing company policies and procedures. Responsible for following the plan of care, providing treatments, and working collaboratively with the members of the team to help meet positive patient care outcomes. **What you will do in this role:** **Essential Accountabilities:** Receives referrals for Hospice GIP referrals from hospital case management conducts intake process. **Performance Criteria:** + Discuss GIP level of care with patient/family and completes consents. + Educate patient/family of need of discharge plan should patient stabilize. Offer resources and coordinate with MSW as needed. + Obtain necessary clinical document/information for GIP admission. + Assist hospital staff with transfer of chart and ensures all orders are in place. + Provides direct patient care to GIP level of care patients in hospital setting, evaluates outcomes and adjusts nursing care processes indicated to adhere to legal, ethical, and clinical standards. **Performance Criteria:** + Formulates and updates plan of care based on patient assessment and identified needs. + Completes initial comprehensive and ongoing daily assessments for hospice patients. + Rounds on patients throughout the day to ensure symptoms are managed and offer support to patients and/or family members. + Implements current nursing practices following a comprehensive assessment plan of care. + Updates or modifies plan of care/goals as necessary to reflect the changing needs of the hospice patient in coordination with the hospice IDG team. + Follows the plan of care, provides treatments, and works collaboratively with the members of the team to help meet positive patient care outcomes. + Provides appropriate pain/symptom management. Evaluates patient’s response to treatments/medications. + Povides follow-up on patient discharges, collects necessary clinical and demographical information to allow the clinical teams to determine appropriate level of care. + Documents in an accurate and timely manner, according to policy, procedure, and practice guidelines. + Collaborates and consults with patients, colleagues, and interdisciplinary team members to achieve desired outcomes. **Performance Criteria:** + Participates in coordination of hospice services, appropriately reporting the identified needs to the interdisciplinary group, including Hospice Aide, Director of Clinical Services-Hospice, and Chaplain. + Provides input at interdisciplinary team meetings. + Documents and reports data, patient response and progress. + Individualizes patient teaching and care plan based on patient’s needs. + Serves as an advocate for patients and families. + Identifies problems and implements measures to meet needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care. + Provides education for self, staff, colleagues, patients, and/or families. **Performance Criteria:** + Serves as an education resource to the Hospital and community at large, regarding healthcare services. Coordinates available resources for staff and families. Educates on CarePartners Hospice to any appropriate audience. + Identifies hospital and hospice staff leaning needs related to the GIP level of care and process and implements plans to meet those needs, or communicates to appropriate person or department. + Provides teaching for bedside nurse on medications to be given and symptom management. + Precepts new staff as assigned. + Provides and documents individualized patient and family education. + Maintains unit/department specific credentials. + Acts as liaison between CarePartners Hospice and acute care hospital case management team, palliative care, and physician services. **Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:** Required Education: Diploma in Nursing, Associate’s Degree in Nursing, or Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Required License: Must have and maintain current licensure as registered nurse with the North Carolina Board of nursing. Compact license may apply, licensee should confirm with NCBON; BCLS. Valid Driver’s License Preferred License: National certification in area Required Experience: Minimum of one (1) year experience as a Registered Nurse Preferred Experience: Minimum of one (1) year experience as Registered Nurse in hospice or palliative care setting. CarePartners Health Services (https://missionhealth.org/member-hospitals/carepartners/) is a healthcare organization serving western North Carolina and offering a full continuum of post-acute care. Located in Asheville, North Carolina, CarePartners provides compassionate post-acute care, including rehabilitation, home health, adult care, hospice and palliative care. CarePartners also offers a full acute care rehabilitation hospital. With more than 1,200 colleagues and 400 volunteers, CarePartners Health Services is dedicated to helping people of western North Carolina live full and productive lives, despite illness, injury, disability or issues related to aging. CarePartners Health Services is a member of Mission Health, an operating division of HCA Healthcare. HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses. "There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse Hospice Specialist Carepartners opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. **We are interviewing apply today!** We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.