Hospice Nurse Practitioner PRN

Hospice Nurse Practitioner

Hospice Nurse Practitioners play a crucial role in providing comprehensive care to patients who are in the final stages of a terminal illness. Their responsibilities may include:

• Assessment and Evaluation: Conducting thorough assessments of patients' past medical histories, current treatment plans, and goals for care. Performing and documenting detailed Medicare Face to Face visits for initial and re-certifications requirements. Anticipating symptoms needs and tracking course of illness. Acute visits for new or evolving symptoms or conditions and treating in collaboration with PCP. Knowledge of common disease trajectories and prognoses.
• Pain and Symptom Management: Working with Bloom PCP and Hospice RN to develop practical and effective symptoms management plans including prescribing, following up on changes, and adjusting as patient's condition changes. Common symptoms managed in our group include agitation, anxiety, pain, dyspnea, depression, constipation, diarrhea, and others. An unrestricted DEA license is required.
• Coordination of Care: Collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary hospice team, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and spiritual counselors to ensure holistic care for patients and support for their families. Maintaining detailed communication with patients' PCPs throughout hospice course. Establishing trusting and collegial relationships with Assisted Living and Memory Care Unit staff and leadership personnel.
• Education and Support: Providing education to patients and their families about the disease process, treatment options, and end-of-life care, as well as offering emotional support and making appropriate referrals to other team members for specific needs. Approaching each interaction with colleagues as an opportunity to learn and to teach. Access to Up-To-Date and NHPCO sites.
• Advance Care Planning: Assisting patients in making decisions about their end-of-life care preferences, including advance directives and hospice enrollment.
• Prognosis and Goals of Care Discussions: Facilitating discussions about prognosis and goals of care with patients and their families, helping them make informed decisions about their treatment options.
• Psychosocial Support: Addressing patients' and families' psychological, social, and spiritual needs, including recommendations for grief counseling and support for anticipatory mourning.
• Documentation and Communication: Maintaining accurate, detailed, and timely documentation of required Medicare Face to Face visits. Participating actively in Interdisciplinary Team Meetings each week. Responding promptly to all text messages, calls and emails.
• Travel: Driving to facilities and patients' homes for visits, maintaining a territory of facilities in conjunction with Hospice RN case managers.

Overall, Hospice Nurse Practitioners strive to enhance the quality of life for terminally ill patients and their families by providing compassionate, patient-centered care focused on comfort and dignity at the end of life.

Nurse Practitioner Benefits:

• Flexible schedules, ability to schedule own visits, assistance with F2F scheduling
• Share in proportionate call schedules for nights and weekends (1 weekend/month). Monday following call weekend is off.
• Auto Allowance
• Company cell phone & tablet
• Licensing fees and liability insurance coverage
• A CME yearly allowance

Nurse Practitioner Qualifications:

• Appropriate Master's degree and Licensure as Nurse Practitioner
• Licensure in the state of Colorado
• Unrestricted DEA License

Our providers are supported by an excellent staff of MD's with specialization in Hospice and Palliative Care, Nursing Clinical Supervisors and Directors of Clinical Services, onsite and responsive administrative and leadership staff, use of effective electronic communications platforms, specialized pharmacist consultations, new and efficient EMR—FireNote telephone triage, IT, access to Up-To-Date and NHPCO sites.

Why Bloom?

• Competitive wage.
• Flexible scheduling for routine appointments.
• Opportunities for professional growth.
• Collaborative work environment with a passionate team making a difference in healthcare.
• Annual continued education allowance.

Bloom Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.