Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner

19 hours ago


Norwell, United States NVNA and Hospice Full time
Job DescriptionWhy NVNA & Hospice?

Join a team that boasts an impressive track record of excellence in delivering top-tier home health, hospice, wellness, and public health services to our valued patients and community.

Our non-profit organization is a continued recipient of five-star patient experience ratings with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the highest achievement possible. We are proud to be ranked as a Top 100 Women-Led Business in Massachusetts by Boston Globe Magazine and The Women’s Edge.

Today, NVNA and Hospice is a vibrant agency serving 27 communities and providing 120,000 patient visits per year with a staff of 331—including 123 nurses—and a reputation for excellent care, efficiency, flexibility, and innovative thinking.

We continue to uphold our values of community, high-quality services in a safe environment of care, integrity, professional development, respect and caring, excellent customer service, and employee well-being. We are neighbors helping neighbors.

What Will You Be Doing

The Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner is a registered professional nurse with advanced graduate education and clinical training who provides consultative palliative care services to patients with advanced illness through the evaluation and assessment of the health history, addressing disease prognostication, assists with advanced care planning, provides recommendations for palliation of symptoms in collaboration with patients, families and the attending provider. This is a 40-hour position, M-F 8-4:30 p.m. The territory includes (but not limited to) Norwell, Hanover, Hingham, Scituate, Cohasset, Marshfield, Rockland and Holbrook.

What We’re Looking For In You

  • Completes history and physical examinations, evaluates the patient's medical condition and health history, interpreting results from laboratory and diagnostic tests or procedures, and documents the findings in the patient's medical record.
  • Provide palliative consults for those with serious illness, comfortable with providing candid goals of care discussions, assist with advanced care planning, make recommendations for symptom management to attending provider and coordinating hospice care services as appropriate.
  • Reviews clinical information, coordinates patient care in consultation with the palliative care interdisciplinary team and other healthcare practitioners.
  • Reviews protocols for treatment and proposes options for interventions based on the current medical literature.
  • Consults the collaborating physician or organizational leadership when the patient's plan of care is outside standardized practice and protocols.
  • Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing and accredited Nurse Practitioner Program.
  • Current nursing licensure in State and CPR certification, as required by organizational policy.
  • Master's or doctoral degree with a minimum of one (1) year Nurse Practitioner experience who has experience in geriatrics, oncology, palliative care and/or hospice
  • Accreditation from an approved certifying body for advanced practice nursing as required by State.
  • Certification in a specialist area preferred; (e.g. ACHPN, AOCN, AWOCN, etc.). If not ACHPN certified, will devise a plan to obtain certification within 18 months of hire.
  • Excellent observation, verbal and written communication skill, problem solving skills, mathematical skills; nursing skills per competency checklist.

What's in it for you?

  • Medical, Dental and Vison Benefits
  • Company paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
  • Generous Paid Time Off Package
  • 401 (k) match program
  • Tuition Reimbursement and Scholarship Program
  • Mileage Reimbursement (in field positions only)

Please Note: *Full Benefits available for positions with 30+ hours

  • Limited Benefits available for positions with 20+ hours
  • Per Diem roles do not offer Benefits

VACCINE REQUIREMENTS: NVNA and Hospice requires full vaccination for Covid-19 and flu as a condition of employment. An exception to this mandatory requirement can be requested.

NVNA and Hospice complies with applicable federal and state civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude people or treat them less favorably because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), sex (including sex characteristics, including intersex traits, pregnancy, or related conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity and sex stereotypes), age, disability (including mental illness and substance abuse disorders), genetic material, veteran status, communicable disease, natural or protective hairstyles or any combination, thereof with regard to admission, access to treatment or employment.

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