RN Case Manager - Bastrop Area (50538)

Job description

Job DetailsJob Location: Spicewood - Austin, TX 78759Position Type: 40 HRS - 1 FTEJob Shift: M-F 8A-5PJOB TITLE: RN Case Manager DEPARTMENT: Clinical Services: POSITION SUMMARY: Provides and coordinates nursing care in the home care program. WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: REPORTS TO: Team Leader SUPERVISES: none: INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: All comments, actions and behaviors have a direct effect on the public’s perception of Hospice Austin. Interactions with patients, family members, physicians, referral sources, visitors, co-workers, etc. must be in a manner that is courteous, respectful, cooperative and professional. This behavior should promote an atmosphere of teamwork and positive relations. EQUIPMENT/MACHINERY USED: Office equipment, automobile, infusion pump, enteral feed pump, CADD pump, nebulizer, oxygen concentrator and tank, suction equipment. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Provides professional nursing care for hospice patients in the homecare setting. Performs initial and ongoing assessment of the impact of the terminal diagnosis on the patient's physical, functional, psychosocial, and environmental needs and activities of daily living, including any risk for pathological grie...