Nurse Practitioner-Palliative Care

Job Description

Job Description

Hospice of the Western Reserve is now Reserve Care. Our new name reflects the full scope of care we provide while honoring nearly 50 years of trusted service. We continue to deliver expert hospice, palliative and grief support with the same compassionate team. When you join Reserve Care, you become part of a legacy that walks alongside patients, families and communities with guidance and meaningful support during life’s most important moments.

JOIN US IN MAKING THE MOST OF EVERY DAY!

Reserve Care operates in celebration of the individual worth of each life, we strive to relieve suffering, enhance comfort, promote quality of life, foster choice in end-of-life care and support effective grieving.

WHY US?

We believe that our success starts with our greatest asset: OUR EMPLOYEES!

We live our shared core values in everything we do:

COMPASSION. EXCELLENCE. EQUALITY. INTEGRITY. SERVICE. STEWARDSHIP .

We have a passion for purpose-driven work! Do you?

JOIN OUR FAMILY! 

The Nurse Practitioner will facilitate HWR’s efforts to relieve suffering, enhance comfort, promote quality of life and foster choice in the presence of an advanced serious illness for all patients and families. The practice is based on competent clinical knowledge and focuses on clinical practice, education, collaboration, consultation and research related to palliative care.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Clinical Practice

• Participates in development and implementation of new programs that affect clinical practice
• Performs holistic patient assessment. Prescribes for symptom management and/or recommends symptom management to primary care providers.
• Performs medical history and physical exam in collaboration with the physician to develop a plan of care
• Coordinates care with team members and health care professionals involved in patient and family plan of care
• Reviews medical record including physician/consultant notes, lab and diagnostic test results. Formulates plan of care based on above data
• Provides follow-up to reassess the plan of care as determined by patient’s goals.
• Participates in analyzing and evaluating clinical practice standards in terms of cost and quality
• Provides independent advanced practice nursing care within the scope of practice as delineated in State of Ohio
• Participates in development and implementation of new standards of practice for hospice and palliative care

Consultation

• Ensures quality care across the continuum as an expert in palliative care
• Facilitates and/or participates in Transdisciplinary team conferences
• Serves as a consultant to staff caring for patients in hospitals, long-term care settings and home settings
• Serves as an expert consultant to healthcare professionals at the local, national and international levels to influence and advance
• clinical practice in palliative care 

Education

• Maintains a thorough knowledge of the current practice and literature relating to palliative care and facilitates the sharing of that
• knowledge with staff
• Educates patients and families on applicable areas of palliative care, such as interventions for pain and symptom management, and
• choice in end-of-life care
• Empowers patients and families to identify and meet goals of care
• Provides education to HWR staff in areas of palliative care
• Provides education to outside agencies, hospitals and long-term care settings on principles of palliative care