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Employment Opportunities
River Region
Hospice is now seeking RN's, LPN's,& C.N.A.'s for both inpatient and outpatient
positions. We are also accepting applications for continuous care positions for
both L.P.N.'s and C.N.A.'s. Please fax your letter of interest and resume to
(985) 331-0070, or CLICK HERE TO CONTACT US.
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Employment at River Region Hospice
River
Region Hospice is an Equal Opportunity Employer in the New Orleans Metropolitan
area. We offer a complete benefit package for qualified full-time employees,
including:
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Paid Holiday, Vacation and Personal Days
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Can You Be a Hospice Employee?
Requirements of a great hospice
employee....
Do you have what it takes?
Skills/ Hallmarks of effective hospice and palliative care
performance:
1. Pain & Symptom management skills. This is a specialty area
of hospice. This is an interdisciplinary effort with input from the hospice
team. It is imperative that hospice clinicians be competent in pain assessment,
intervention, and evaluation. The fifth vital sign, pain, should be assessed
during every encounter.
2. Knowledge of concepts related to death and dying. Hospice
should integrate the dying process as a part of life. Team members' belief
systems should be congruent with the basic tenets of hospice care.
3. Stress Management Skills. It is important that all hospice team
members take care of themselves and find activities and events that promote
emotional well being, nurture, and support.
4. Sensitive Communication Skills. Communication is
essential for effective hospice team members. There is an untold intimacy and
poignancy in hospice. .The hospice team's priority must be to respect the values
and wishes of the patient. Hospice employees must speak and act compassionately
at all times, .They must refrain from being judgmental or imposing their values
on the patient or the family. Communication should include active listening, and
being sensitively cued to what the patient and family are saying.
5. A Sense of Humor . A
kind sense of humor helps the entire team and patients and their families on
particularly rough days or in meeting unique challenges.
6. Flexibility . Patients and families in hospice control
their care and care planning. because the days shared with the hospice team are
the patient's last months or weeks, the patient calls the shots. This includes
scheduling, visit times, lengths of visits, and all other decisions. Respect for
and acceptance of the patient's choices and decisions are part of effective
daily operations in in hospice and are required by law through patient
self-determination acts.
7. Hospice and Palliative Care knowledge. All team members
must be current on the current body of literature regarding hospice regulations
and standards.
8. A Knowledge of the core care standards and rules for hospice care
9. A Repertoire of service-driven and patient-oriented interpersonal
skills. Never forget you are a
representative of RRH. Manage yourself professionally in both dress and demeanor
at all times. Be positive and polite in all situations.
10. The Ability to pay incredible attention to detail.
11. The possession of multifaceted skills accompanied by flexibility.
It is the hospice clinician who
must be bend to meet patient and renegotiate to meet patient and family needs
and achieve patient- centered outcomes. This flexibility usually includes
visiting times and scheduling but can include aspects that center on
accommodating patient and family/caregiver needs.
12. The possession of a reliable car and safe, effective driving
skills. The hospice employee in the community must like, or at least not
mind, driving (even in inclement weather), have a good sense of direction -or a
map!
13. The ability to assume responsibility for the patient and family's
care and the patient's POC. For nursing assistants, they must
have the ability to note relevant changes and report them when appropriate to
the nurse care manager.
14. Strong clinical skills and the ability and willingness to seek out
all new learning opportunities.
15. Self-direction and the ability to function autonomously in a
non-structured atmosphere.
This means having well-developed and effective
time-management
16. Time management skills to be able to prioritize and manage diverse
and sometimes equally important tasks and responsibilities.
17. Knowledge of the economics of health care and the larger
environment that is affecting hospice particularly.
18. The ability to adjust to change well.
Without change we would stagnate.
19. The ability to be open and sincerely accepting of people's unique
and chosen lifestyles and of the effects that these lifestyles have on their
health.
20. A sincere appreciation of people. This includes being
positive and empathetic to all patient's, families, and caregivers, who are
often in the midst of crisis.
If
you have any questions or would like to inquire about
open positions, please contact
Gina Norris, LCSW at (985)331-0101.
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