Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner

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.

The Nurse Practitioner will facilitate Reserve Care'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.

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Maintains a standard care agreement with HWR Medical Directors
• Works as part of a team
• Collaborates with members of the palliative care team
• Collaborates with health care professionals as appropriate within the community
• Facilitates communication between nursing staff/physicians and patient/family
• Participates on HWR committees
• Participates in quality improvement activities
• Maintains and cultivates professional relationships in healthcare that strengthen HWR’s strategic marketing plan
• Fulfills professional growth through involvement in professional organizations, presentations and publications

• Participates in agency research endeavors
• Presents findings of research internally and at professional conferences

• Participates in peer reviews
• Adjusts to changes in workload and schedules based on changing departmental and organizational priorities
• Maintains national certification
• Seeks palliative care educational opportunities to increase knowledge
• Teaches and lectures for continuing education programs
• Presents at multidisciplinary patient care conferences
• Serves as a preceptor to Advanced Practice Nurses

• Maintains a current Registered Nurse license in state of Ohio
• Maintains a current Certificate of Authority in state of Ohio
• Master of Nursing Degree
• Minimum of two years in clinical setting
• Must be flexible…