Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner

Job Description

Position : Home Health - Palliative Care Advanced Practice Provider – Full Time

Hybrid / Remote - (1-2 Days Remote) (3-4 Days In Patient Homes)

Mileage and Cell phone Reimbursement + Quarterly Bonus

Client is looking for skilled Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants eager for the opportunity to make a difference in patients' lives. The Advanced Practitioner at Client is a key member of an integrated Care Team, which includes a Registered Nurse and a Social Worker. The patients we serve often struggle with multiple serious diseases. Our Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants help patients improve their quality of life in the home and slow the progression of kidney disease, enabling positive health outcomes.

Using your skills in this position will allow you to deliver personalized, compassionate medical care to individuals mainly chronic illness or kidney disease. You will also be responsible for caring for patients, maintaining accurate and current patient records and scheduling, and administering follow-up appointments to patients as required. Your gifts as a healthcare professional are urgently needed. In healthcare systems, the patient has too often become secondary due to processes and incentives that don’t positively impact the patient for the long term. We strive to change that narrative by putting our patients and their quality of life at the forefront of what we do.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Conducts assessments, including comprehensive annual wellness exams on patients both in the patients' home and in the virtual environment
• Counsels and educates patients and families about benefits and programs available to help them live healthier lives
• Documents items such as : appropriate chief complaint, all applicable diagnoses, past medical, family, and social history, review of systems, examinations, medications, allergies, assessment, and plan
• Responsible for the coordination of care with primary care providers, specialists, and appropriate ancillary services
• Completes all documentation and paperwork in a timely manner
• Maintains quality of care standards as defined by the practice
• This position will not be office-based but will be remote in the state in which employed and will need to attend periodic training / meetings outside of that state
• Delivers evidence-based, timely care in a manner that reduces avoidable hospitalizations, maximizes quality of life, and puts patient health and satisfaction first
• Prescribes medications, orders tests, and collaborates with the patient’s Client physician
• Performs effectively, as reflected by improved patient quality outcomes, which will be measured and reported daily
• Facilitates closing gaps in care by educating patients about preventive monitoring and working with physician practices to schedule diagnostic testing
• Assists patients with enrolling to access educational videos
• Participates in the integrated care team meetings
• Knowledge of disease diagnosis and prevention
• Makes assessments of patients' health status
• Develops treatment plans
• Implements plans consistent with appropriate plans of care
• Follows up and evaluates patients' status
• Other duties as assigned

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Benefits