Per diem Admissions/Team Nurse

Mission Hospice & Home Care serves patients and families in the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay with quality care and compassionate end-of-life support and education. Founded in 1979, we are a local, independent nonprofit that has provided thousands of patients and their families with physical, emotional, and spiritual support throughout the journey from a life-threatening diagnosis through death and bereavement. The Admissions/Team Nurse provides coverage for Nurse Case Managers to cover patient/staffing needs and processes admissions for eligible hospice patients in coordination with Team Manager.

Schedule: Per diem; 2 days a week or 6 shifts per month; 8:30am - 5:00pm Location: San Mateo County with occasional travel to the city of San Ramon Mission Hospice & Home Care follows all CDPH vaccine

Requirements

for healthcare personnel. Essential Duties &

Responsibilities

include (but are not limited to): Make in-person nursing visits to patients as assigned, or as indicated when case managing. Use the nursing process to assess, plan, intervene and evaluate following patient/family needs and goals. Provide effective management of symptoms, including prompt escalation to providers or others as indicated.

Coordinate patient/family services and prioritization of needs with the members of the transdisciplinary team or outside providers/services. Make telephone contact and/or conduct assessment visits with potential hospice patients to provide information on agency services and assess patient status. Education/Experience : One year experience as a professional nurse in the past three years or Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited School of Nursing.

Experience in acute care/ home health and/or hospice setting preferred . Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Current license as a registered professional nurse in the State of California. Public Health Nursing certification highly desirable.

HPNA certification preferred. Pay Range: $58.34 - $72.

95 hourly Mission Hospice and Home Care is proud to serve our community as an

Equal Employment Opportunity

employer. Everyone is valued and welcome at MHHC. Our organization is committed to diversity, equity and continues to build a culture of inclusion by recruiting, screening, hiring and retaining any qualified individual without regard to age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, registered domestic partner status, citizenship, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military care status, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by Federal, state, or local laws.