Palliative Care- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Job Description:

Palliative Care APRN wanted to join a diverse IDT that includes Physicians, chaplaincy, social work, RN, and pharmacy support. This diverse practice can be tailored to your clinical interests including an inpatient palliative medicine consulting service, outpatient palliative clinic, 16 bed inpatient hospice unit, and homebased hospice visits. Shared call that is conducive to quality work-life balance.

Responsibilities:

• Reviews clinical information and completes new consultations and follow ups in a timely manner working with the interdisciplinary team (physicians, social workers, and chaplains)

• Acts as an integral part of the treatment team for patients with cancer-related illness and life limiting chronic illnesses to assisting in determining goals of care.

• Acts as an integral part of the treatment team for cancer-related patients to manage symptoms via various routes in collaboration with palliative care physician.

• Provides extensive education regarding chronic diseases and how they impact quality of life.

• Communicates with treatment team including other providers on changes to plan of care.

• On call coverage required that includes cross coverage for palliative care clinic and hospice inpatient and home care team

Qualifications:

Demonstrated skills and knowledge as a Nurse Practitioner in area of expertise:

One (1) year nurse practitioner experience preferred.

One (1) year hospice or palliative nursing experience preferred.

Excellent observation, problem solving skills, mathematical skills, and nursing skills.

Knowledge of community, professional and education resources.

Excellent communication skills written and verbal amongst professionals.

About St. Elizabeth:

St. Elizabeth Physicians is a physician led multi-specialty physician group organization consisting of 517 physicians, 334 advanced practice providers and more than 2,000 non-provider associates. We are very proud of our culture around physician wellness and our high physician engagement and satisfaction scores. St. Elizabeth Physicians serves more than 409,000 patients in our more than 121 conveniently located practices in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. In partnership with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, we are transforming how care is delivered in our region.

We are a mission and values driven organization, focused on patient-centered care, accountability, community, innovation, teamwork and excellence. St. Elizabeth is a regional healthcare provider continually recognized as one of the nation's best. Our mission is to ensure our patients receive comprehensive and compassionate care - anywhere. St. Elizabeth Physicians is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age or any other characteristic that is protected by state or federal law.