Travel Nurse RN - Hospice
Green Bay, WI
TNAA TotalMed RN
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

UNIT:  HOSPICE HH - Supportive Care Team
MGR INTERVIEW

Minimum Years of Experience required: 2 years, Home Health or Home Hospice experience

Will you accept a first-time traveler: Yes, if they have case management experience in the home setting.

Required License, National Certification, Certs: BLS, Active Driver’s License, State of WI RN License, own vehicle, auto insurance

EMR: Epic (Rover), Remote Client

Patient Types/Common Diagnoses: Failure to thrive, advanced cancers, end stage COPD, end of life, terminally ill, end stage disease processes.  Attend after hour visits that are called into our triage line (PRN visits - symptom management, fall, etc., death visits). Some issues can be resolved via phone and do not require an in-person visit

Skills required:  Comfortable performing focused assessments and critically thinking, comfortable investigating patient agitation issues (when’s the last time they urinated? Is their foley crimped? Etc.), exchanging foley, troubleshooting feeding tubes, wound care, post-fall assessment, comfortable with death visits and conversing with medical examiner or coroner, comfortable administering narcotic pain medications (typically patients will have mediation kit at home), identifying potential drug diversions in the home

Floating:  May occasionally float slightly outside of their assigned territory if a call comes in that they are closer to and that territory nurse is in another call. Never over an hour away from home territory.