🍂THIS FALL, LET YOUR EXPERTISE MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 🍂
Your expertise can change how someone experiences life’s most vulnerable moments.
🍁 What’s your purpose?
Wondering how AdvisaCare could fit into your career goals?
As the seasons change, it may be the perfect time to turn over a new leaf in your career. 🍂
💜 ARE YOU A NURSE PRACTITIONER LOOKING FOR A NEW PRACTICE HOME?
AdvisaCare Hospice & Palliative Care is looking for the right Nurse Practitioner to join our family.
We're seeking someone who shares our mission:
🤎 Provide compassionate care
🍂 Support patients during vulnerable moments
🏡 Meet people where they are
💜 Make a meaningful difference through every interaction
If you believe in caring for the whole person with compassion, dignity, and heart, we'd love to hear from you.
🍁 Bring your experience. Bring your purpose. Bring your passion for compassionate care.
📩 Submit your resume and let's schedule a time to talk about your professional journey and how AdvisaCare may support your goals.
💜 This fall, take the next step toward work with purpose. 🍂
👉 APPLY TODAY!
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Current unrestricted Nurse Practitioner in Michigan required.
- Minimum of one-year experience in a Medicare-certified home health/hospice agency preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge of home health nursing/hospice and/or outpatient services preferred.
- Willing and able to meet the agency need to support hospice Medical Director/designee.
- Understanding of performance improvement with the ability to communicate and operationalize performance improvement initiatives at the departmental and organizational level.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, sound judgement, effective organizational, prioritization and follow-through skills, attention to detail, tact, dependability, emotional intelligence, ability to maintain confidentiality and promote positive, constructive relationships with communication and collaboration at all levels required.
- Positive, professional interpersonal skills.
- Meets health requirements demanded of all clinical/field staff who provide service through the agency.
Position Specific Responsibilities
- Performs routine and urgent assessments:
- Availability PRN/Part Time
- Conducts medical evaluations of predominantly elderly, frail, seriously ill patients in their home environment.
- Orders, performs, and interprets laboratory and radiology tests within scope of professional practice to assess patient’s clinical problems and health care needs.
- Prescribes medications including controlled substances to the extent delegated and licensed.
- Orders treatments and durable medical equipment as indicated.
- Performs other therapeutic measures as indicated.
- Assists patients and families in identification of goals of treatment and ongoing plans of care at every visit. Communicates these goals among Interdisciplinary Team.
- Consults with palliative care physician or designees as needed, informs primary physician of services provided and collaborate with other physicians as needed.
- Assists in all facets of care coordination for palliative care referrals.
- Prepares and maintains accurate patient records, charts, and documents to support sound medical practice and reimbursement for services provided.
- Ensuring continuity of care by serving as a liaison between patient and other members of the multidisciplinary care team or with other specialty areas.
- Participates in Quality Assurance activities and committee related to Nurse Practitioner scope of practice and policies/procedures.
- Complies with applicable laws and regulations with respect to Collaborative Agreements.
- Provides training and ongoing education and onboarding support for staff.
- Defines goals for professional growth and participates actively in professional activities and organizations.
- Engages in active and frequent self-care activities for personal and professional growth and longevity.
- Adheres to the practice of confidentiality regarding patients, families, staff and the Organization.
- Collaborates/communicates with Medical Director, attending Physician, hospital staff, and Interdisciplinary Team:
- Participates in Interdisciplinary Team meeting bi-weekly.
- Collaborates/communicates with Interdisciplinary Team needs of patient for clinical and psycho-social interventions.
- Assists in identifying the need for intervention of other Interdisciplinary Team members.
- Effectively communicates patient and family needs to Interdisciplinary Team.
- Completes and submits required clinical documentation within 24 hours of visit completion.
- Educates patient and caregiver regarding:
- Care of patient.
- Disease process.
- Goal setting.
- Symptom control.
- Treatment options.
- Prognosis.
- Advance Care Planning.
- Supervises nurse trainees, including graduate and advanced practice nurses in field placements.
- Must be able to operate an automobile/has access to personal transportation.
- Able to lift/transfer/push/pull up to 100 pounds infrequently using assistive techniques and devices appropriate to manage the task.
- Must be able to complete multi-tasks and meet multi-deadlines.
- Proactively promotes census growth and seeks to offer care that meets the unmet diverse needs of the community.
- Performs other duties as assigned.