Hospice/Palliative Registered Nurse - Delaware
🌟 Join KeystoneCare as a Hospice/ Palliative Registered Nurse (Delaware County) 🌟
Make your next career choice one that empowers you to be independent, creative, and truly fulfilled—caring for the terminally ill at the moments that matter most.
At Keystone Hospice, we’re more than a care provider—we’re a mission-driven, community‑focused, Medicare Certified and CHAP‑accredited agency serving the greater Delaware area. Our nurses deliver comprehensive palliative and end‑of‑life care rooted in expertise, compassion, and innovation. From advanced clinical pain management to holistic creative therapies, our team leads with heart and purpose, caring for every patient regardless of diagnosis or financial means.
Whether care is delivered in a hospice setting or in the comfort of a patient’s home, our philosophy remains steadfast:
Every person deserves to die with dignity, without pain, and surrounded by compassionate support—and every family deserves the same level of care.
As a Hospice RN Case Manager, you are a cornerstone of our interdisciplinary team—providing medical excellence, emotional grounding, and meaningful connection during life’s most delicate transitions.
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KeystoneCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Determine scope and frequency of services needed based on acuity and patient/family needs.
- Meet patient care needs aimed at specific signs and symptoms management, diagnosis/disease progression, patient education and compliance to promote healing and manage pain and symptoms.
- Promote maximum patient quality of life within patient limitations.
- Maximize patient and family compliance with plan of care.
- Coordination of care for efficient, comprehensive patient care in a team approach.
- Establish plan of care for CNA/HHA disciplines and performs ongoing supervision as mandated by agency policy.
- Maintains a current knowledge of the nursing profession by participation in educational programs, conferences and in-services.
- Documentation includes appropriate terminology, reflects treatment given, patient response, results and pain, if any.
- Documentation is submitted in a timely manner.
Requirements
- Naturally flexible and empathetic toward others
- Current RN license in good standing to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Experience with pain and symptom management interventions
- Understanding of hospice philosophy, principles of death/dying
- Maintains clinical and professional competence
- CPR certified
- Driver's License and Car Insurance in good standing
- Reliable vehicle
- Possesses the ability to follow oral and written instructions
- Possesses the ability to communicate effectively with all members of the care team
- Possesses good organizational skills.
- Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or an approved Medical or Religious exemption.
- Proof of Influenza (Flu) Vaccination or an approved Medical or Religious exemption.
Benefits
💼 Amazing Benefits & Perks
- Paid Time Off
- Travel reimbursement between work sites
- Paid Holidays for Full-time staff
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Aflac plans available for Full-time staff
- $25K Company Paid Life Insurance Policy for full-time staff
- Retirement plan with discretionary employer match