We are hiring for a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
At Palliative Care at Heart, a part of LHC Group, we embrace a culture of caring, belonging, and trust and enjoy the meaningful connections that come from it : for the whole patient, their families, each other, and the communities we serve it truly is all about helping people.
We strive to offer benefits that reward the whole you!
- employee wellness programs
- flexibility for true work-life balance
- holidays & paid time off
- continuing education & career growth opportunities
- company-wide support & resources to help you achieve your goals.
Take your career to a new level of caring. Apply today!
Responsibilities
The Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner / APRN provides direct patient and family care through palliative care consultation to ensure specialty services to patients with serious illness and a prognosis of one year or less who are not ready or eligible for hospice care.
Demonstrates effective and ethical use of approved evidence-based palliative medicine practices in the delivery of all patient
care based on physical, emotional, spiritual, psycho / social, ethical, educational, safety and related criteria, appropriate to the ages of patients served.
- Demonstrates knowledgeable clinical expertise by incorporating palliative care body of knowledge to formulate an effective plan of care.
- Gathers pertinent information systematically from all sources, including medical records, family history, and caregivers, and thorough specialty physical, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual clinical patient assessment.
- Completes a comprehensive assessment utilizing the palliative care domains of assessment, interprets findings, conducts medication reconciliation, and formulates problem-related diagnoses, initiates plan of care utilizing therapeutic interventions, and evaluates the results of these actions for adequate outcome responses.
Qualifications
- RN / APRN licensure in state of practice
- Nurse Practitioner / CNS with prescriptive authority. Must maintain all requirements for licensure
- 5 years of clinical nursing experience. At least 1 year as APRN with Hospice, Palliative Care or Oncology preferred
- Advanced practice palliative care certification (ACHPN) is preferred. Certification in an appropriate advanced practice area will be considered.
BCLS Licensure requirement. ACHPN Certification is encouraged following 2 years of employment or sooner when requirements for experience met.
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