**Department:** Hospice **Hours Per Pay Period:** 116 **Daily work times:** 4:30pm-8:00am (7 on, 7 off) Under the direction of the Clinical Manager, provides comprehensive health care services to patients and their families through direct care and supervision. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES * 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. * Initiates referrals to other services/community resources as indicated. * Develops measurable patient-centered goals in collaboration with the patient and family. * Implements services in accordance with the established care plan, standards of nursing Hospice policies, procedures, protocols and all federal, state and local laws/ regulations, and accreditation standards. * Prepares, administers and documents medications and treatments as prescribed in the Physician’s Plan of Care. Verifies current medications with medication profile. * Reports pertinent clinical findings to patient’s Case Management nurse, physician/Clinical Manager. * Reports pertinent clinical findings to patient’s Case Management nurse, physician/Clinical Manager. * Evaluates the patient/family response to the Plan of Care against established goals. * Provides, establishes, and revises the Home Health Assistant Plan of Care to Home Health Assistants as assigned. Provides supervision to Home Health Aides and coordinates/assists ancillary services as assigned. * 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.