Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner; APNP- Palliative Care & Hospice

The Supportive Care Management (palliative care) and Hospice Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner (APNP) provides advanced clinical expertise and leadership to enhance care planning, treatment, and outcomes for individuals with palliative care and/or hospice needs. The APNP supports an interdisciplinary approach aligned with Unity’s mission and values, delivering services under the guidance of the Medical Director or designee.

Schedule
: 32 hours per week, generally 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., 4 days per week. Weekend and on‑call responsibilities as needed. This role covers all Unity territories.

• Demonstrates nursing leadership that positively influences the health outcomes of people
• with palliative care and/or hospice needs.
• Advances the profession of nursing.
• Identifies practice areas of concern, risk, and learning opportunities.
• Demonstrates skilled mentoring, coaching, and teaching of health care colleagues.
• Contributes to a culturally safe environment.
• The APNP will contribute to a culture of excellence, collaboration, integrity, compassion, and accountability.
• Role models excellence in clinical professional practice and works alongside staff to reinforce learning and provide specialist assistance when required.
• Utilizes evidence-based theory and best practice in clinical care.
• Contributes to clinical leadership across the Unity interdisciplinary teams and broader Hospice and Supportive Care Management (SCM) program.
• Influences organizational change as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional nursing leadership by participating in pertinent evidence-based literature searches and policy development.
• Creatively generates new approaches to the extension of nursing knowledge and delivery of expert care.
• Facilitates collaboration between primary, facility-based aged-care, in‑patient, and community services.
• Works collaboratively with other APNPs in the region and state and participates in peer support and mentorship.
• The APNP will communicate effectively, timely, and appropriately at all times.

• Demonstrates the competencies for the APNP Scope of Practice.
• Applies advanced nursing practice in the provision of health care services to patients with a hospice and/or palliative care need.
• Delivers patient-centered care operating within a nursing model of holistic practice.
• Establishes therapeutic relationships with patients and families that recognize the patient in context and respect cultural identity and lifestyle choices.
• Demonstrates complex decision-making skills to support advanced practice identifying patients and patient/families at risk.
• Demonstrates advanced comprehensive patient health assessment skills and diagnostic decision-making relative to the specialty of hospice and palliative care.
• Orders, conducts, and interprets diagnostic and laboratory tests, and administers therapies for the management of potential or actual health needs.
• Consistently uses appropriate tests and investigations based upon the patient’s clinical status to support clinical reasoning and evaluates measurable outcomes.
• Provides patients and families with appropriate clinical information to support informed decision making, uses appropriate language and style respectful of the end-of-life experience.
• Demonstrates competency with prescribing and regular medication review for hospice and palliative care patients.

• The APNP will participate in call coverage on a regular basis.
• The APNP will be responsible for the medical aspect of the patient care programs and activities with members of the local medical community in collaboration with the Medical Director and members of the medical team.
• The APNP will review and collaborate with the Medical Director regarding the appropriateness of patients at time of hospice admission.
• The APNP will round on designated patients at the Jack and Engrid Meng Hospice Residence when directed.
• Provide face-to-face recertification visits and ensure the accurate and timely documentation of those visits to assure seamless care of Unity’s hospice patients.
• Identify practices of concern, risk, and learning opportunities.
• Assist in the…