Part-Time - Nurse Practitioner - 322BHR

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : $58.00 - $65.00

About Us

AtEnvision Hospice, we believe in dignified, compassionate end-of-life care. Serving communities across Washington, our interdisciplinary team provides patients and their families with comfort, peace, and holistic support during lifes final journey.

Position Overview

We are seeking a compassionate and experiencedand reliable Part Time, Hospice Nurse Practitioner (NP)who is passionate about providing quality care to patients and families within our service area inWashington State.

The Hospice Nurse Practitioner assists in all of the medical aspects of the agencys hospice and palliative care program. They serve as consultant and advisor to the Director, offering his / her expertise to assess and interpret medical problems. The Hospice Nurse Practitioner serves as consultant to the primary physician of agency patients but does not take over the medical direction of the patients care. Serves as consultant to the Interdisciplinary Group.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Provides nursing assessment, care and evaluation to seriously ill patients in inpatient and community-based palliative care programs.
• Provides counseling areas within Hospice and Palliative Care to ensure that these areas consistently meet patient and family needs.
• The Hospice Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner, and contracted physicians, in conjunction with the patients attending physician, are responsible for the palliation and management of terminal illness and conditions related to the terminal illness.
• In coordination and collaboration with the Medical Director assumes overall responsibility for the medical component of the Hospice and Palliative patient care program, functions as part of the Hospice IDG, and acts as consultant for medical care.

The duties and responsibilities of the nurse practitioner include, but are not limited to :

The physician must consider the following when making this determination for certification :

Provides advice, guidance and assistance to Hospice staff until a satisfactory resolution is reached when a medical order :

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