Nursing - Full-time / Part-time

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Job ID: 24263

Facility: ADVOCATE AT HOME

Department / Unit: Hospice

Status-FTE: Part-Time B - 0.5

Shift: Weekends Only

Advocate at Home offers comprehensive, quality home health and hospice care throughout metropolitan Chicago, surrounding counties and down to central IL. As Illinois' largest, privately held home health care and hospice provider, we have the means and opportunities to enhance your worklife quality.

Graduate from an accredited school of nursing

2~3 years of medical nursing experience with various age groups.

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Good documentation skills.

Computer skills

Good time management and organizational skills

Familiarity with patient care equipment

Good customer service skills

Current Illinois RN license

Curent CPR

Ability to work weekends, holidays, and different shifts in order to accommodate staffing

Ability to take 'on call" assignments.

Ability to handle multiple tasks and complete work within short timeframes.

Ability to transport objects, patients, and equipment

Ability to respond quickly to patient needs and work at fast pace

Work environment includes probability of exposure to adverse, hazardous, or unpleasant conditions while caring for the sick

Routinely works with potentially infectious specimens and patients

Ability to respond to patients in a timely manner and access all areas

Ability to lift up to 100 pounds occasionally and/or in excess of 50 pounds frequently and/or in excess of 20 pounds constantly

Must be able to travel to all areas within the Advocate service area in all extremes of weather on all types of roads. Exposed to widely varying social and environmental conditions in patient's neighborhoods and homes. Must be willing to work occasional overtime if needed. Required to make visits to private residences which may not be accessible to people with disabilities.

Must be able to assist with ambulation including turning and transferring patients up to 200 pounds

The admission nurse assumes primary responsibility for the admission of patients into the hospice program. The admission process includes the assessment, planning, and implementation of the plan of treatment.

The admission nurse ensures admission to the hospice program and smooth transition and hand off to the IDT. Communication with the hospital, physicians and other care providers is essential.

Accountabilities:

Responsible for the admission process to hospice services.

Patient/Staff Education: Demonstrates a commitment to meeting the learning needs of patients and families. Utilizes appropriate resources to meet those needs and achieve positive patient outcomes.

Leadership/Collaboration/Professional Development: Demonstrates respect and understanding for peers and other clinical disciplines and participates as an effective member of the patient care team to formulate an integrated approach to care. Demonstrates leadership behaviors and is committed to the development of self and others.

Assuring/Improving Quality Care: Facilitates the patient and family's right to receive quality, cost effective care

Part time weekend position. Works every Saturday and Sunday 10 hours each day. Shift is 11 AM - 9:30 PM. Mostly south area but will float to every area as needed. No on call. Works one summer and one winter holiday. May pick up extra days. Would consider an 8 hour position working every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care, named among the nation's Top 5 large health systems based on quality by Truven Analytics, is the largest health system in Illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the Midwest. Advocate operates more than 250 sites of care, including 12 hospitals that encompass 11 acute care hospitals, the state's largest integrated children's network, five Level I trauma centers (the state's highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area's largest home health care companies and one of the region's largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $661 million in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2013 .