Job Description

Visit Nurse – AWE Team

Immediate Openings

We invite you to take a bold step with us. Join the team that’s offering expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to people affected by serious illness or grief around Kansas City. At Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care, we work together – one team, one vision, that each person in our community is valued from life through death and each family is supported in their grief.

We Strive to be the Best Place to Work:

We offer generous and competitive wages and benefits!
Position offers premium pay!
Hours: Saturday/Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Hospice or Long Term Care experience required
24/7 support from our full-time Board Certified physicians and APRNs, Chaplains and Social Workers

Position Description:
The Visit Nurse is responsible for making after hours visits to patients when assigned and dispatched by the triage nurse. The Visit Nurse is responsible for providing acute symptom management and end of life care to terminally ill patients and support for their caregivers,according to agency policies.

The Ideal Candidate Will Possess the Following Requirements:

High School diploma or GED required,
Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Nursing preferred, with motivation to work with the dying and bereaved.
Valid, unencumbered LPN or RN licensure in Kansas and Missouri, required.
Minimum one (1) year relevant work experience in caring for terminal patients and others with life threatening illnesses, required.
Ability to demonstrate clinical judgment and decision making based on knowledge and skill in caring for
patients with life-limiting illness, required.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Google Suite, preferred.
Prior working knowledge of Electronic Medical Systems (EMRs) required; prior experience with Suncoast preferred.
Valid CPR certification required.

Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care is an equal-opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We don’t just accept differences—we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our patients, and our community. Our diversity defines us. It binds us. It makes us great.

Job Tags

Full time, Work experience placement, Immediate start, Sunday, Saturday,

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