Hospice and Palliative Nurse Practitioner

🍂THIS FALL, LET YOUR EXPERTISE MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 🍂 Your expertise can change how someone experiences life’s most vulnerable moments. 🍁 What’s your purpose? Wondering how AdvisaCare could fit into your career goals? As the seasons change, it may be the perfect time to turn over a new leaf in your career. 🍂 💜 ARE YOU A NURSE PRACTITIONER LOOKING FOR A NEW PRACTICE HOME? AdvisaCare Hospice & Palliative Care is looking for the right Nurse Practitioner to join our family. We're seeking someone who shares our mission: 🤎 Provide compassionate care 🍂 Support patients during vulnerable moments 🏡 Meet people where they are 💜 Make a meaningful difference through every interaction If you believe in caring for the whole person with compassion, dignity, and heart, we'd love to hear from you. 🍁 Bring your experience. Bring your purpose. Bring your passion for compassionate care. 📩 Submit your resume and let's schedule a time to talk about your professional journey and how AdvisaCare may support your goals. 💜 This fall, take the next step toward work with purpose. 🍂 👉 APPLY TODAY! Requirements Qualifications: - Current unrestricted Nurse Practitioner in Michigan required. - Minimum of one-year experience in a Medicare-certified home health/hospice agency preferred. - Demonstrated knowledge of home health nursing/hospice and/or outpatient services preferred. - Willing and able to meet the agency need to support hospice Medical Director/designee. - Understanding of performance improvement with the ability to communicate and operationalize performance improvement initiatives at the departmental and organizational level. - Excellent interpersonal skills, sound judgement, effective organizational, prioritization and follow-through skills, attention to detail, tact, dependability, emotional intelligence, ability to maintain confidentiality and promote positive, constructive relationships with communication and collaboration at all levels required. - Positive, professional interpersonal skills. - Meets health requirements demanded of all clinical/field staff who provide service through the agency. Position Specific Responsibilities - Performs routine and urgent assessments: - Availability PRN/Part Time - Conducts medical evaluations of predominantly elderly, frail, seriously ill patients in their home environment. - Orders, performs, and interprets laboratory and radiology tests within scope of professional practice to assess patient’s clinical problems and health care needs. - Prescribes medications including controlled substances to the extent delegated and licensed. - Orders treatments and durable medical equipment as indicated. - Performs other therapeutic measures as indicated. - Assists patients and families in identification of goals of treatment and ongoing plans of care at every visit. Communicates these goals among Interdisciplinary Team. - Consults with palliative care physician or designees as needed, informs primary physician of services provided and collaborate with other physicians as needed. - Assists in all facets of care coordination for palliative care referrals. - Prepares and maintains accurate patient records, charts, and documents to support sound medical practice and reimbursement for services provided. - Ensuring continuity of care by serving as a liaison between patient and other members of the multidisciplinary care team or with other specialty areas. - Participates in Quality Assurance activities and committee related to Nurse Practitioner scope of practice and policies/procedures. - Complies with applicable laws and regulations with respect to Collaborative Agreements. - Provides training and ongoing education and onboarding support for staff. - Defines goals for professional growth and participates actively in professional activities and organizations. - Engages in active and frequent self-care activities for personal and professional growth and longevity. - Adheres to the practice of confidentiality regarding patients, families, staff and the Organization. - Collaborates/communicates with Medical Director, attending Physician, hospital staff, and Interdisciplinary Team: - Participates in Interdisciplinary Team meeting bi-weekly. - Collaborates/communicates with Interdisciplinary Team needs of patient for clinical and psycho-social interventions. - Assists in identifying the need for intervention of other Interdisciplinary Team members. - Effectively communicates patient and family needs to Interdisciplinary Team. - Completes and submits required clinical documentation within 24 hours of visit completion. - Educates patient and caregiver regarding: - Care of patient. - Disease process. - Goal setting. - Symptom control. - Treatment options. - Prognosis. - Advance Care Planning. - Supervises nurse trainees, including graduate and advanced practice nurses in field placements. - Must be able to operate an automobile/has access to personal transportation. - Able to lift/transfer/push/pull up to 100 pounds infrequently using assistive techniques and devices appropriate to manage the task. - Must be able to complete multi-tasks and meet multi-deadlines. - Proactively promotes census growth and seeks to offer care that meets the unmet diverse needs of the community. - Performs other duties as assigned.