Hospice Registered Nurse - Full time-North/North West Philly/Bucks County- Penn Medicine at Home

apartment Penn Medicine location_onBala Cynwyd, PA, US

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

At Penn Medicine at Home, we believe hospice care is about living life to the fullest—right up to the very end. Our holistic approach goes beyond managing pain and symptoms; we care for the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—and support their loved ones every step of the way. We are seeking a dedicated Hospice & Palliative Care Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team. In this role, you will provide comprehensive care and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses, helping them maintain comfort, independence, and quality of life. You will work closely with patients and families to ensure individualized care plans that honor their wishes and values.

Why Join Us?

This isn’t just a job — it’s a calling. You’ll help patients take control of their care, make meaningful decisions, and spend their final months with dignity, comfort, and respect. As part of our multidisciplinary team, you’ll bring compassion and expertise to those who need it most.

Responsibilities:

Professional Practice Competency Domains Definitions: Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
Evidence Based Practice and Research: The nurse evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.
Leadership: The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.
Person and Family Centered Care: The nurse recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Professionalism: The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.
Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.
Technology/Informatics: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.
Teamwork: The nurse effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Credentials:

Basic Cardiac Life Support as per the American Heart Association (Required)
Registered Nurse - PA (Required)

Education or Equivalent Experience:

Associates or Bachelor of Science Nursing (Required)
More than 15 months’ relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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