Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
About The Position
The Nurse Practitioner assesses, treats, solves problems, counsel, and educates hospice and palliative care patients, utilizing advanced assessment and evaluation techniques. This role involves performing consultative visits for pain and symptom management, offering clinical changes to the plan of care in collaboration with the attending physician and/or medical director, and communicating these changes to the care team. The Nurse Practitioner will also confer with medical directors to review diagnosis, assessment criteria, and issues of pain and symptom management for the population served, and participate in the agency's quality improvement process. They will initiate immediate orders with the consultation of the attending medical director, assess health status and potential, and plan, implement, and evaluate health care needs of the patient/family. The role includes planning and evaluating therapeutic regimens to minimize pain and suffering, performing history and physical examinations, identifying normal and abnormal findings, and consulting with physicians on the plan of treatment. Standard precautions must be practiced in all patient contacts, and emotional support should be provided to patients and families in a manner that fosters independence and affirms existing strengths. Care provided and patient/family response must be documented in a timely fashion according to agency policy. The Nurse Practitioner will deliver care in a cost-effective manner, demonstrating an understanding of hospice reimbursement methodologies, and perform palliative care consults in hospitals, homes, and nursing facilities.
Requirements
- Completion of Accredited Nurse Practitioner Program
- Master's degree in nursing
- Current license to practice as a registered nurse in Ohio and West Virginia
- Current certification as family or adult nurse practitioner
- Two years' experience of practice in the Nurse Practitioner Role
- Successful completion of a background check
- Successful completion of a drug screening
- Possession of a valid driver's license
Responsibilities
- Performs consultative visits for pain and symptom management
- Offers clinical changes to plan of care with collaboration from attending physician and/or medical director.
- Offers clinical nursing changes to plan of care and communicates to the care team
- Confers with medical directors to review diagnosis, assessment criteria, and issues of pain and symptom management for population served
- Participates in agency quality improvement process
- Initiates any immediate orders with consult of the attending medical director
- Assesses health status and health potential: plans, implements and evaluates health care needs of the patient/family
- Plans and evaluates therapeutic regimens for patients, to minimize pain and suffering, consulting with physicians and other members of the health care team, and community agencies
- Performs history and physical examination, and records data
- Identifies normal and abnormal findings, and consults any needs with physician to determine the plan of treatment
- Practices standard precautions in all contacts with patients
- Provides emotional support to patients and families in a manner that fosters independence and affirms existing strengths.
- Documents care provided and the response of the patient/family; completes documentation in a timely fashion as described in agency policy
- Delivers care in a cost-effective manner that demonstrates an understanding of hospice reimbursement methodologies
- Performs palliative care consults in the hospital, home and nursing facility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
