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Ascend Health · 1 day ago

Vigil Aide

Overland Park, KS

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

1+ years exp

Ascend Health is a provider of hospice services, dedicated to offering compassionate end of life care. They are seeking a Vigil Aide to support patients and families during the end of life process, providing comfort and assistance in both home and nursing home settings.

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Responsibilities

Primary responsibility is to provide support to patients, families, and facilities by providing end of life vigil presence at bedside in either a home or nursing home setting

Provides compassionate bedside presence for patients who are deemed to be vigil appropriate/end of life by RN

Supports families through listening, educating, and by providing hospice presence as patient is actively dying

Collaborates with facility to ensure patient comfort, care, and support

Provides presence after death to support family and facility prior to funeral home arrival

At times, Vigil Aides may provide caregiver relief for families who need to step away from bedside

At times, Vigil Aides may be asked to help with showers or other patient care needs as directed

Provides or assists in ADL activities; personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin care and nails

Provides assistance in toileting; positioning and transfer activities, frequent turning and positioning of a bed bound resident/patient

Assists with the prescribed exercise and ROM activities which the resident/patient and Hospice aide have been taught by the Hospice Nurse

Assists with light housekeeping of individual's personal unit or room, including changing of bed linen, if needed and patient laundry

Feeds and assists with meals

Obtains temperature, pulse and respirations as supervised by the Hospice Nurse

Reports any changes in resident's/patient's condition to the Hospice Nurse and, if in a facility, to the facility nurse and documents the information on the Home Health Aide Certification of House form, including the date and time of the report and the person receiving the information

Assists or reminds the patient to take medication, in compliance with regulations of appropriate regulatory and accrediting bodies