Karon Shaffer RN, BSN

• Provide home and general inpatient hospice care for terminally ill patients

• Train and supervise hospice team members.

• Train and supervise hospice team members.

• Symptom management to ensure patients comfort.

• Establish and implement unique, patient-centered, and evolving plan of care consistently driven by individual goals and needs of both patients and their families.

• Train and supervise hospice team members. Work closely with interdisciplinary team members to meet all physical and emotional needs.

• Timely and accurate documentation to meet regulatory compliance and agency policy.

• Train and supervise hospice team members.

• Implemental role in deficiency free annual Department of Health survey.

• 5 Star CAHPS Ratings.

• Responsible for overall direction of patient care
• Schedule of nursing staff to meet patient needs and budgetary constraints, while meeting state and federal guide lines
• Quality Assurance
• Wound management
• Restorative nursing program
• Participate in annual and abbreviated DOH survey
• Prepare, initiate and implement plan of correction

• Wound Care coordinator
• Quality assurance
• Supervise Licensed and non-licensed staff
• Staff development
• Employee health

• Marketing for Hospice and Home Health services
• Managed case load 12-15 hospice/home health patients in home care and long term care settings.
• Worked closely with attending Physicians and families to provide quality care for the terminally ill
• Developed and implemented care plan to meet the patients and families needs
• Documentation to meet federal guide lines and company policies
• Draw and deliver labs as ordered with prompt follow up to MD and patients
• Supervised home health aides
• Responsible for monthly clinical operations report
• Traveled within 6 counties
• On call duties

• Teaching nurse aid training course
• Employee Health
• Quality Assurance
• PRN Supervisory relief and charge nurse relief
• Assist with meeting staffing needs to meet the requirements of state and federal regulations
• Assist the DON with annual survey with the Department of Health