Travel Nurse RN - Hospice
Oshkosh, WI
TNAA TotalMed RN
5x8 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Hospice Case Manager
Manager Interviews

Certs Required: BLS, State License
Experience Required: 2 years RN experience. Will accept first time traveler.

Skills required: IV skills, chest tube maintenance/pleurex drain, catheter insertion, tube feedings, triage skills, wound care, wound vac, comfortable dealing with PIV, midline, central line, etc., competency with end of life care including pain and symptom management both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical, experience with opioids and opioid equinalagesic table, documentation on EMR platform, independent critical thinker/problem solver but knows when to reach out and ask for help/questions, flexible; inpatient facility does provide palliative sedation

Patient Types:
1. Staff will primarily be seeing patients in the community setting, i.e. their home, the home of a family member, Assisted Living Facilities, Group Homes, Nursing Homes, and perhaps a hospice patient in an AAH Hospital.

2. Hospice patients/end of life (life expectancy 6 months or less if disease runs its normal course). Common diagnoses are 40% cancer, 60% other medical issues

Patient Ratios:
Remote/Field: Caseload is 13-15, visits per day prorated (5-6 visits per 8 hour shift/day)
Inpatient Hospice: 1:6-9 patients, dependent on shift.