Registered Nurse (RN) - Home Health - Ville Platte

• Join VitalCaring Group and experience a company that invests in you every step of the way!
• Job Summary At VitalCaring, our team members transform lives and foster hope through genuine caring.
• As a Registered Nurse, you will plan, organize, and direct compassionate care focused on comfort, dignity, and quality of life.
• You will support patients and families through skilled clinical care, expert symptom management, and meaningful education—guided always by our values of being trustworthy, capable, compassionate, proactive, and called.
• Every encounter is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference.
• Essential Functions Patient Care Complete initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments of patients and families to determine hospice needs, including full physical assessments and history review.
• Provide nursing care using all elements of the nursing process in accordance with the professional practice act.
• Assess and evaluate patient status, initiate and update individualized plans of care, and revise as needs and conditions change.
• Use health assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses and establish palliative, patient-centered goals.
• Implement preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures; administer medications and treatments as prescribed.
• Counsel and educate patients and caregivers on care needs, symptom management, medications, diet, and safety.
• Assist patients with activities of daily living and encourage independence and comfort whenever possible.
• Serve as Case Manager when assigned, coordinating all aspects of care for the patient and family.
• Communication & Coordination Document timely, accurate, and relevant clinical notes reflecting patient condition, care provided, and pain/symptom outcomes.
• Communicate with physicians regarding patient needs and changes in condition; obtain and carry out required orders.
• Coordinate care with community partners and interdisciplinary team members to ensure continuity and quality.
• Support emotional needs of patients and families; maintain a safe environment and uphold hospice philosophy.
• Attend interdisciplinary group (IDG) meetings to support coordinated care planning.
• Additional Responsibilities Participate in on-call rotations per agency policy.
• Ensure arrangements for medical equipment and necessary services.
• Supervise ancillary personnel and delegate responsibilities appropriately.
• Maintain professional growth through continuing education and in-services.
• Fulfill all accepted case assignments.
• Participate in quality assessment and performance improvement activities.

Qualifications

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with 1–2 years of recent acute care experience Current RN licensure in the state of practice and current CPR certification. Bachelor’s degree preferred, with one year of hospice experience ideal. Must be a licensed driver with a reliable, insured automobile.