Registered Nurse

Position: Registered Nurse

Crescent Cove
The mission of Crescent Cove is to offer care and support to children and young adults with a shortened
life expectancy, and their families who love them. Crescent Cove is Minnesota’s first residential
children’s respite and hospice home, which opened in May 2018 in Brooklyn Center. The Home provides
short, 1-7 day respite breaks for children with life-threatening conditions, as well as sacred space
beyond the hospital or home environment for compassionate care at the end-of-life. Crescent Cove
provides support services such as massage, music, and art therapy, spiritual care and healing touch, and
support groups for families caring for a child with a life-threatening condition.

Position Summary
Crescent Cove is looking for skilled and compassionate nurses with hospice and palliative care
experience and knowledge to care for children and teens at Minnesota’s first children’s residential
hospice. The nurses will embrace the child and their family, celebrate the child’s life and assure the
family as their child stays for respite and/or receiving end-of-life care at our Home. Nurses will facilitate
and administer care, as needed, to Crescent Cove children and their families on a comprehensive level
including medical, psychosocial and spiritual needs. The nurses, along with the team of supervising
nurses, will manage all patient care needs alongside the interdisciplinary team.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The Registered Nurse will perform the following essential clinical/technical duties:

• Commitment to Crescent Cove’s mission and vision
• At the direction of the patient’s primary care physician, the Medical Director and Nurse

Manager provide and coordinate quality palliative and respite care to children/families,
including nursing services, medication administration, treatments, and preventative procedures

• In coordination with the interdisciplinary team, develop, implement, evaluate and update plan

of care for each child/family

• Work with the Nurse Manager to ensure that each child’s primary care team is in contact with

the child’s care team at Crescent Cove

• Assess patients and report to the managing physician reactions to medications, as well as

changes in the patient’s physical or emotional condition

• Ensure goals of care for each child continue seamlessly from home or hospital
• Be an active and effective champion around needs of the child and family – clinical,

pharmacological, spiritual and social – assess and respond to psychosocial needs

• Help maintain staff resiliency and morale
• Develop meaningful relationships with families to increase their comfort and access to support

services for their family

• Coordinate patients’ orders
• Calculate medications and fluids with 100% accuracy
• Perform nursing procedures such as blood draws, central line dressing changes, mediport access

as needed

• Coordinate patient nursing care with other team members including other nursing staff,

psychosocial staff, pharmacist, Medical Director, attending physician and various community
agencies and resources

• Supervise clinical nurse assistants and volunteers
• Participate in intakes, admissions, transfers and discharges
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols,

medication storage procedures and controlled substance regulations

• Perform clinical assessments and evaluations prior to and following family visits for respite or

end-of-life care

• Ensure proper operation of DME and other equipment by following manufacturers’ instructions;

performs routine maintenance and acts as liaison with equipment providers

• Maintain current clinical knowledge of pediatric palliative care practices through ongoing

education and attendance of in-service training sessions

• Perform other responsibilities as assigned

Essential Patient Interaction Duties: Actively participate in the provision of medical, psychosocial and spiritual care for Crescent Cove

children and their families

• Meet with patients and families as needed to anticipate changes in medical, psychosocial and

spiritual care needs

• Teach, supervise and support the child and family regarding pain and symptom management
• Communicate with the child/family any changes in child’s condition or plan of care
  

Essential Team Communication Duties:

• Document medical interventions and maintain accurate clinical records in the Medical Record

System

• Attend scheduled interdisciplinary team meetings when possible and document discussion and

any changes to plan of care in the medical record

• Maintain communication with patient, family and primary care staff when patient is transferred

and/or hospitalized

• Maintain patient confidence by keeping all patient and family information confidential and

following HIPAA at all times

• Check Crescent Cove email in order to be apprised of Crescent Cove business and professional

tasks

Essential Additional Functions:

• Demonstrate the basic skills and core competencies of a Registered Nurse, including managing

multiple, competing and varied tasks, time management, listening skills, problem solving (clinical
and interpersonal), decision making (clinical and interpersonal), delegation of duties and
successfully managing work-flow

• Perform tasks in a culturally sensitive manner without regard to any protected category defined

by federal, state or local law

• Provide house tours as requested
• Utilize Crescent Cove resources in a cost effective manner
• Maintain a clean and organized work area to reduce likelihood of health and safety hazards
• Effectively deal with personal and psychosocial and bereavement issues related to job duties
• Maintain professional boundaries within Scope of Practice
• Adhere to all state regulations regarding professional license

• Understand and adhere to Crescent Cove compliance standards as they appear in the Crescent

Cove Employee Manual, Crescent Cove policies and procedures manual

• Ability to communicate accurately and concisely using both written and verbal skills
• Ability to work independently to manage a caseload of patients
• Ability to access, input, retrieve information from a computer
• Knowledge of office procedures and office machines
• Fluency in English
  

Professional Qualifications

• Minnesota RN license in good standing required
• One year or more experience in Pediatric or Neonatal Intensive Care or Pediatric Home Care for

medically complex children required

• End-of -Life Care preferred
• Has experience with integrative therapies, i.e. massage, energy work, etc.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, not required
• Credentialed or willing to become credentialed by the National Hospice & Palliative Care Nurses

Association

• Understands child development and unique diagnosis within pediatric healthcare
• Personal, reliable transportation, valid and current MN Driver’s License, good driving record and

insurance are required

• Has current CPR certification for Adult and Pediatrics and BLS for Healthcare workers
  

Personal Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Demonstrates self-awareness of personal, ethical, spiritual, cultural beliefs
• Highly developed professional & interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and follow-through
• Knowledge of pediatric palliative, hospice and bereavement care
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to work effectively on a one-to-one

basis and within groups

• Knowledge of, and ability to use software, to capture family support
• Self-motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic, energetic, creative and highly organized
• Active listening skills
• Fluency in English
  

Please submit a cover letter and resume to Karla at Karla.Vaughan@CrescentCove.org. References and
background check following successful interview.