Nurse- Palliative Care at Home-Full Time Days

Palliative Care at Home provides home based palliative symptom assessment, treatment and ongoing goals of care discussions for patients and families facing advanced illness.  The full clinical team is comprised of CHWs, NPs, nurses, social workers and physicians.  The team works in collaboration with patients’ healthcare teams to provide high quality evidence based complex palliative care and chronic care management and is designed to improve symptoms and QOL, reduce caregiver burden, reduce unnecessary inpatient utilization, and facilitate hospice when appropriate. Nurses responsible for providing high quality evidence based complex, chronic care management and palliative care in patients’ homes. 

•    Work as member of interdisciplinary team assessing and addressing the complex care needs of patients and
families facing serious illness. 
•    Visits with an caseload of patients and families in their homes to complete guided assessments, support
medical management, address complex symptoms, and coordinate care.  
•    Provides supportive individual and family counselling to reduce anxiety/stress and symptoms precipitated 
by advanced illness and hospitalizations.  
•    Engages patients and caregivers about goals of care, reviews advance directives, and collaborately 
develop treatment plans based on goals 
•    Monitor and coordinate care plans in conjunction with the rest of the clinical care team.  
•    Evaluates medical needs for caseload of patients, provide them direct in home care
•    Facilitate visits by the providers remotely as needed
•    Communicate plan of care to consulting clinicians and PCaH interdisciplinary teams 
•    Educates patient/family on trajectory of illness, use of medications, assesses disease understanding
•    Participate in weekly IDT meeting with care team
•    Documentation as required 
•    Performs other related duties as assigned

Required: 

• Graduation from an accredited Nursing program.  Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. (BSN) Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) RN who is matriculated in a BSN Program with a graduation date within the year.  Any Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) RN with Nursing experience must be approved by the CNO
• Relevant clinical competence in area of nursing practice assigned; new graduates must possess current knowledge of the nursing process and its application
• Licensed as a registered nurse with current registration in New York State
• Name: Basic Life Saver (BCLS) Issuing Agency: AHA
• 2+ years of experience managing patients with medically complex and chronic/severe illness 

• Experience working in interdisciplinary care teams 

  Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing
• Palliative care/hospice experience
• CPR/ACLS certification 
• Spanish speaking proficiency/fluency 

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $96461 - $144692 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.