
Overview
Join our care team as a Hospice Registered Nurse (RN) in Los Angeles, Pasadena, South bay, East Los Angeles, and San Gabriel Valley area to deliver attentive, evidence-informed care across patient needs and care settings. You’ll assess patients, coordinate treatment, administer medications, and document care while protecting privacy and following infection-control practices. Your impact: Timely assessment and coordinated care help patients and families make informed decisions and support safer transitions between care settings.
Responsibilities
- Assess patient condition, take vital signs, identify changes, and escalate urgent concerns.
- Administer medications, injections, and intravenous (IV) infusions; provide catheter, ostomy, tube-feeding, and pain-management care as appropriate.
- Coordinate with clinicians and care teams on treatment, diagnostic evaluation, case management, and discharge planning.
- Maintain accurate medical documentation in electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) systems; follow Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy requirements.
- Apply aseptic technique and infection-control procedures; support emergency response and patient education.
Experience
- Required: Current registered nurse license for the applicable jurisdiction, strong patient assessment and communication skills, and commitment to safe, respectful care.
- Preferred: Basic life support (BLS); nursing experience in hospital, acute, inpatient, emergency, intensive care, medical-surgical, primary care, urgent care, or post-acute settings.
- Relevant experience may include pediatrics, geriatrics, senior care, long-term care, nursing homes, assisted living, memory care, hospice and palliative medicine, home care, behavioral health, dialysis, labor and delivery, or developmental-disability services.
- Familiarity with Epic, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, other EMR/EHR systems, medical terminology, medical records, ICD-9/ICD-10 coding, and NCQA standards is helpful.
- Additional experience in triage, telemetry, IV insertion, phlebotomy, ventilator or airway management, trauma, catheterization, suturing, CT, sonography, or other listed specialty areas is valued.
Pay: $80.00 - $200.00 per hour
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
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