Job Details
- Job Location: 7600 Office South Charlotte - Charlotte, NC 28227
- Position Type: PRNEducation Level: Graduate Degree
- Travel Percentage: Up to 50%
- Job Shift: Any
- Job Category: Nurse
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
- 28 days of Paid Time Off
- Excellent mileage reimbursement rate
- 403b Retirement plan with matching
- Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
- Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
- Best Orientation and Onboarding program you’ve experienced
- Seasoned Hospice leaders guiding your career growth
Essential Functions
- Promotes the highest quality of end of life care including hospice care and widespread use of advanced directives.
- Prevents suffering and alleviation of physical, spiritual, and psychological pain.
- Diagnoses, treats, and manages pain and other symptoms frequently experienced by patients at the end of life.
- Guides and counsels patients and their families regarding disease progression, prognosis and the benefits/burdens of therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs.
- Prescribes and/or recommends therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs (including narcotics) in accordance within the ethical principles of medicine.
- Plans for situations beyond the nurse practitioner’s expertise and conferring with the Medical Director, or a Medical Services Physician as appropriate.
- Serves as an end-of-life care education resource both within the organization and in the outside community.
- Pursues actively and passionately educational opportunities that lead to improved outcomes.
Clinical Care Strategies
- Evaluates patients by performing history and physical examinations.
- Discusses patient with attending physicians, consultants, nursing staff, and other medical professionals.
- Prescribes systemic and topical drug therapies including narcotics for the pain and other symptoms.
- Conducts patient/family meetings to review medical issues and establish goals of care.
- Provides general psychosocial support.
- Refers for diet/exercise therapies.
- Recommends other non-pharmacological therapies such as massage therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and music therapy.
- Recommends additional psychosocial counseling by mental health professionals.
- Prescribes medical supplies and equipment.
- Recommends appropriate diagnostic tests and studies.
- Reviews and discusses advance care directives.
- Recommends referral to hospice services.
- Participates in team discussions regarding patient care to gain insight and suggestions.
- Self directs learning to remain up-to-date on current trends in hospice and palliative medicine.
Basic Duties
- Provides comprehensive medical care to VIA patients.
- Serves as a medical resource for VIA staff.
- Assists in staff training.
- Assists in education and training of healthcare professionals and public.
- Optimizes cost-effective plan of care.
- Assists in the development of policies.
- Maximizes clinical efficiency to ensure reimbursement is optimized.
- Enhances palliative and hospice care by promoting increased and earlier referrals to palliative medicine and hospice.
- Submit billing and documentation according to policy.
- Accommodates requests from the Medical Director, either directly or indirectly through his/her agent, to add or modify the duties to accomplish the team and organization goals.
- Submit all billing and documentation according to established policy.
- May perform other duties as required.
Qualifications
- A Master Degree in nursing; current, active, and unrestricted license NC license as Registered Nurse (RN), and official recognition as Nurse Practitioner from NC Board of Nursing.
- Successful board certification in specialty within 2 years of date of hire.
- Current and unrestricted DEA and Basic Life Support.
- Computer proficiency.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum 1 year related experience. Experience in direct care of patients with life limiting illnesses required. Related experience may include hospice and palliative care; family medicine; internal medicine; geriatrics, oncology; home health care; medical surgical.
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