Palliative Care Nursing
Palliative Care Nursing
The ideal candidate:
Compassionate, trustworthy, reliable, flexible, thoughtful, and curious.
An interest in bedside care, hands on, coordination with the team.
A high standard for care.
An interest in professional growth.
Leadership and mentorship abilities.
Some job duties:
Taking time to know the person, their story and their preferences for care and end-of-life planning.
Understanding the person’s illness trajectory, level of frailty and any illness related symptoms the person many be experiencing and providing supportive care planning in alignment with the resident’s goals.
Participating in the hands-on care of residents including bathing, dressing, washroom, and mobility, as needed. As well as other nursing care including:
Post-op and fracture management: (conservative/operative, comfort care/rehab)
Care for those with spinal cord injuries and amputation
Chronic disease management, end-of-life care and symptom management
Medication Management: PICC line, IV therapy (fluids, abx, furosemide, iron etc.), subcutaneous medications, titrating medications
Oxygen Therapy, titrating oxygen
Basic and Complex Wound Care management
Urinary Care: Indwelling, In/Out, Suprapubic Catheter (have a bladder scanner)
Complex treatments: Hypodermoclysis, Tracheostomy, Enteral feeding
Compensation: Evergreen utilizes the BCNU wage grid to set and match wage rates.
Overtime: Evergreen’s staffing model does not rely on overtime. Minimal to nil overtime is available.
Person-centered scheduling: Some people work rotating shifts, some work set days, some prefer 8-hour shifts, other prefer 12-hour. As long as the agreement is fair both ways, we are flexible and accommodating to the greatest extent possible. There are a variety of shifts available. 4 or 12-hour shifts are scheduled only for those requesting them. Otherwise, the standard is 8-hour shifts.
Second job: No problem.
Days
0645-1445h
0645-1845h
Evenings
1100-1900h
1445-1845h
1445-2245h
1100-2300h
Nights (full nights and half nights available)
1700-0300h
1445-0245h
1845-0245h
2245-0645h
1845-0645h
0245-1100h
0245-1445h
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino