Quality Assurance Nurse - Hospice

Quality Assurance Registered Nurse (QA RN) - Hospice experience required

Location: Remote (some travel required to office locations in AR, MO, AL, MS, TN) Department: Clinical

Are you looking for a job and company you can proudly call home? Do you want to have a team-based environment where you can create the best care plan for your patients? How would you feel if your employer designed a path to grow your career while investing in your success? Legacy Hospice may have the job for you!

Hospice affirms life and focuses on quality of care and quality of life. Hospice exists to provide support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable illnesses so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. Hospice recognizes dying as a normal process, whether or not resulting from disease. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice exists in the hope and belief that through appropriate care and the support of a caring community, patients and families may be free to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them.

We are adding a Quality Assessment Registered Nurse to our team!

Here at Legacy Hospice, we hire highly talented and uniquely qualified nurses to provide exceptional oversight of our QAPI program and policies. Our QAPI nurses assess the collection, monitor, and submit quality measures that meet regulatory, accreditation, and standards of practice. Legacy Hospice expects our employees to communicate with compassion and empathy with their patients, families, and the communities we serve.

Qualifications:

1. Registered nurse with current licensure to practice professional nursing in the State.
2. Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited program by the National League for Nursing.
3. Three (3) to five (5) year's clinical nursing experience. (An emphasis on in-home care/hospice nursing is preferred).
4. Excellent understanding of infectious disease control and prevention, performance improvement, quality assessment, and utilization management.
5. Is self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision.
6. Effective social interaction, communication, organizational skills and the ability to perform various tasks efficiently.
7. Valid driver's license required due to travel requirement.
8. Carry personal auto liability insurance coverage.

Once you join the Legacy family, you will proceed with our training program along with support and resources from our leadership team.

Within the first month, you will:

• Get to know your team and become acclimated to the hospice philosophy.
• Complete online training with your team.
• Shadow your team members to learn more about hands-on hospice care

We allow a flexible onboarding schedule to enable you to move at a pace that you are comfortable with. If you have any questions at any time during training, always feel free to ask your Branch Administrator or team members.

About Legacy

The mission of Legacy Hospice is to provide the highest quality end-of-life care to patients and families through our interdisciplinary team. Through ongoing programs within our company, we promote new innovative ways of caring for our most vulnerable patients.

Legacy Hospice services are provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our staff focuses on providing compassionate care, education, and support for all our patients and their loved ones so they are as comfortable as possible. We work with patients and caregivers with care that is specialized to their needs.

We recognize and develop our treatment goals around the concept that hospice is about quality of life, not quantity of days.

Legacy strives to provide care to our patients and seeks to be a company that our employees can be proud to work for. We work together with one mission, to provide top-of-the-line care at the end of life. We believe we should take care of our patients like our own families and strive to treat each other in the same way. With this goal, Legacy provides a culture of caring for each other.

Benefits of working for Legacy Hospice include:

• Competitive compensation.
• Insurance and benefit options for your families' specific needs, including a generous company contribution.
• Legacy provides short-term disability plans for all employees and a life insurance plan.
• Competitive PTO policies and multiple paid holidays off.
• Programs designed to provide opportunities for career advancement.