Nurse Practitioner, Inpatient Palliative Care

Optum WA (formerly The Everett Clinic) is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join our Inpatient Palliative Care Consult service in Everett, WA. Optum is a clinician‑led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you’ll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone. At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. You’ll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim.

We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and erience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country.

The Inpatient Palliative Consult service supports patients, and their families, dealing with serious illness to create patient-centered, value-concordant, and medically-optimized care plans. Our clinicians help patients understand their most likely future, and how to navigate that future in a way that aligns care with their goals given their medical reality. We also ensure pain and other symptoms associated with serious illness are well-managed.

We are a collaborative team focused on whole-person care and transdisciplinary work. We are passionate about providing our hospital’s most seriously ill patients with compassionate, clinically excellent care.

At Optum Care Washington you will work as an Inpatient provider at Providence Regional Medical Center and experience:

• Flexible work week schedule (4 or 5 day, 40 hour work week as 1.0 FTE). Partial FTE can be considered.
• Daily interdisciplinary huddles/rounds
• Inpatient family care conferences at the bedside with the interdisciplinary team
• Follow-up visits with patients
• Epic EMR
• Integration and coordination of care with the inpatient hospital teams including hospitalist, critical care, surgical, and emergency medicine teams

Optum Care Washington is looking for a Nurse Practitioner, ideally with direct experience in Palliative care to join our Inpatient Palliative Care Consult service. Preferred applicants should have demonstrated practice in palliative care and familiarity with medically complex patients, and comfort with prognostication and the ability to help patients and families understand their future. Applicants should be comfortable receiving and providing feedback to others on the team and learning from all teammates.

This role will work collaboratively with the Palliative Consult nurse, physician, social worker and chaplain. A typical day will include seeing new patients, follow-up visits, and interdisciplinary discussions. The team’s goal is to reduce suffering and non-beneficial medical care for patients near end of life; increase appropriate hospice referrals and help other disciplines in the hospital understand and appreciate the value of a big-picture approach to care.

We also act as a support for healthcare providers who are experiencing distress in caring for patients with severe illness and suffering.

We are a very collaborative team. We value our dynamic and inclusive team environment where we can lean on our teammates, offer candid feedback, bring our “true selves” to work each day, and deliver meaningful care while having fun along the way.

• Performs initial consult and follow-up visits for hospitalized patients.
• Performs thorough patient assessments to obtain an accurate record of the patient’s clinical information and medical symptoms.
• Assesses patient’s health and illness trajectory, compassionately advises them on most likely future and what to expect, and advises a best plan of care given values and medical reality.
• Interprets patient care tests and exams to obtain needed information to guide care; performs diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures as defined by scope of practice.
• Provides, and oversees, treatment provided by others,…