Nurse

• Serve as the primary point of contact for hospice patients and families during after-hours, weekend, and holiday coverage
• Triage incoming calls, assess patient needs, and provide clinical guidance and interventions by phone
• Resolve or route non-clinical requests involving durable medical equipment, pharmacy, scheduling, and general questions
• Collaborate with physicians, social workers, chaplains, nurses, and other hospice team members
• Make clinical decisions based on patient status and plans of care
• Provide symptom-management instructions for pain, breathing difficulty, nausea, anxiety, and other concerns
• Offer emotional support and guidance to families and caregivers
• Educate patients and families on end-of-life care, medication administration, and comfort measures
• Respond to emergencies, guide caregivers through symptom-control techniques, and dispatch hospice field nurses when necessary
• Coordinate after-hours visits by hospice field nurses or other team members
• Ensure timely ordering and availability of medications and medical supplies
• Document triage interactions and nursing assessments in the electronic medical record (EMR)
• Complete workflow
• Provide detailed reports to registered nurse teams, hospice physicians, and case managers
• Update plans of care to reflect changes in patient status and maintain interdisciplinary communication

Remote registered nurse providing after-hours hospice triage for Affinity Hospice patients

Centralized Triage Registered Nurse, RN

Remote registered nurse providing after-hours hospice triage for Affinity Hospice, a hospice and palliative-care organization.
Assessing symptoms, guiding caregivers, documenting care, and dispatching field nurses when needed.

• Provide nursing care from initial patient contact until care is relinquished to the accepting medical facility
• Assess, triage, and treat critically ill or injured patients for safe transport
• Maintain thorough patient care documentation
• Participate in ongoing laboratory, clinical, aviation, safety, OSHA, HIPAA, and continuing education training
• Use and routinely maintain aircraft medical equipment and supplies; report failures and initiate repairs
• Maintain adequate onboard supplies and keep aircraft clean and orderly
• Attend pre-mission briefings and debriefings and complete required documentation
• Assist with liftoff checklists and support pilots with radio, navigation, and visual observation activities
• Conduct aircraft safety briefings and comply with safety standards
• Serve as a flight resource to neonatal/pediatric personnel and perform approved advanced procedures
• Participate in patient/referring institution follow-up and outreach marketing and education
• Precept and orient new employees and students as assigned
• Participate in meetings, activities, projects, committees, research, and publishing opportunities
• Be scheduled for at least two 24-hour shifts per week at CBS bases where currently licensed

Flight Nurse providing critical-care air transport across Air Methods’ Southeastern U.S. bases

Flight Nurse, Float

Flight Nurse delivering critical-care air transport for Air Methods across Southeastern U.S. bases. Assessing patients, performing advanced procedures, and supporting aviation safety during missions.

• Provide nursing care from initial patient contact until relinquishment to the accepting medical facility
• Assess, triage, treat, and prioritize care for critically ill or injured patients during safe transport
• Maintain thorough patient care documentation and required licensure, certification, training, and clinical records
• Maintain competency through laboratory, clinical, continuing education, and advanced skills experiences
• Operate and maintain medical equipment and supplies; report failures and initiate repairs
• Keep aircraft clean and orderly and maintain adequate onboard supplies
• Attend pre-mission briefings and mission debriefings and complete required documentation
• Assist with liftoff checklists and support pilots with radio, navigation, and visual observation activities
• Conduct aircraft safety briefings and comply with safety standards
• Support neonatal and pediatric specialty transports and perform approved advanced procedures
• Participate in patient and referring-institution follow-up and outreach marketing and education
• Precept and orient new employees and students
• Participate in meetings, activities, projects, committees, research, and publishing opportunities
• Work scheduled 24-hour shifts at CBS bases where currently licensed

Flight Nurse providing critical-care air transport across Air Methods’ Southeast bases

Flight Nurse – Float

Flight Nurse providing critical-care nursing and helicopter transport for Air Methods’ Southeast bases.
Assessing patients, coordinating safe transfers, and supporting aviation safety across multiple licensed states.

• Perform specialized public health nursing duties in areas such as adult health, disease control, family planning, pediatrics, etc.
• Perform physical assessments and treatment according to protocol
• Perform triage, counseling, and educating patients
• Develop and review emergency management plans and operating procedures
• Train and counsel patients and families regarding medical care and treatment plans

Public Health Nurse performing specialized nursing duties in Jefferson County Health Department

Public Health Nurse

Public Health Nurse responsible for public health nursing duties including disease control and family planning in Jefferson County. Involves physical assessments, triage, and emergency preparedness tasks.

• Track and respond to calls for a multi-state nurse triage telephone service.
• Provide clinical assessment based on established protocols and triage patients by phone or through patient portal.
• Provide administrative support and perform clinical tasks.
• Facilitate referrals and collaborate on addressing prior authorization requests.
• Participate in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) initiatives.
• Screen and qualify patients for clinical trials.

Registered Nurse providing remote telephone triage support for various states

RN Telephone Triage Nurse – Compact License, IL, MA, NY, MN, DC

Registered Nurse providing remote telephone triage support. Handling clinical assessments and administrative tasks for multi-state telehealth services.

• A Registered Nurse for Home Infusion inserts, monitors and removes an IV used to give medications, blood products and nutrition to a patient.
• During the IV therapy, the nurse monitors the patient for adverse reactions and ensures that the tubing, bandages and needle stay in place.
• When a patient needs blood levels checked, an IV nurse performs a veinous phlebotomy.
• During the entire IV therapy process, the nurse obtains sets of vital signs, completes the physical assessment and review of systems, documents all patient-related activities and records the medications they use.
• Provides and coordinates all aspects of staffing services to the patient with the assistance of the Company Directors, Nursing Coordinator and the Director of Nursing.
• Communicates with the patients to determine problems and/or solutions regarding their treatment.
• The Per Diem RN also conveys collected documentation from patient to all necessary internal and third-party external staff regarding scheduling and other pertinent patient information.
• Performs a variety of duties both clinical and nursing notes documentation. This position requires skill in planning, organizing, scheduling and coordinating the delivery of patient care by all staff personnel including but not limited to complete documentation of nursing care and submission of nursing notes.

Per Diem Infusion Nurse providing in-home patient care for LUX Infusion.

Home Infusion Nurse

Per Diem Infusion Nurse providing in-home patient care for LUX Infusion. Involves IV therapy, patient monitoring, and coordination with healthcare teams.

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