Nurse Practitioner ​/ Physician Assistant - Palliative Medicine

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Your job is more than a job.
Why a Great Place to Work
You’re more than your job. Everyone is. And that’s what makes you great at your job—all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you. At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we’ve built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary.

You’ll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you’ll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.
Palliative Medicine NP or PA - Full-time
The Palliative Medicine Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant, provides advanced health care to individuals, families or groups as an advanced or expert clinician through both inpatient consults and outpatient clinic visits. This includes the assessment of individual health, analyzing data to determine medical and nursing care needed, planning a treatment strategy to meet identified needs, and evaluating responses to nursing and medical interventions all while under the guidance of and collaboration with a physician.
GENERAL DUTIES
Assessment:
Assesses the complex acute, critical and chronically ill patients for urgent and emergent conditions. Uses relevant data to evaluate for any physiologic instability and utilizes data to formulate plan of care.
Clinical Interventions:
Performs therapeutic interventions to stabilize acute and critical health problems. Specific interventions are listed in the Scope of Practice and approved as a part of the credentialing/privileging process. Analyzes the indications, contradictions, risk of complications and cost-benefits of therapeutic interventions.
Plan of Care:
Manages the plan of care through evaluation, modification and documentation according to the patient s response to therapy. Manages changes in condition with a focus on optimizing the patient outcomes. Incorporates health promotion, health protection and injury prevention measures into the plan of care within the context of the complex acute, critical and chronic illness. Facilitates the patients transition between and within health care settings.

Education:

Serves as an educational resource to the patient/family, nursing staff and provider team. Acts as a consultant to multidisciplinary health care team members.
Professional Development:
Participates in scholarly activities including research and education. Participates in own professional development by maintaining required competencies, identifying learning needs and seeking appropriate educational offerings. Acts as a preceptor and mentor to support the development of nurses, APPs, students and other health care providers.
Patient Safety and Quality:
Demonstrates a commitment to patient safety by speaking up about safety issues and changing practice to enhance safety. Demonstrates shared accountability for safe practice. Shares errors or potential errors through system reporting mechanisms.
Education Qualifications
Master’s degree from an approved Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program - required.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) from American Heart Association
• Nurse Practitioner Certification or Physician Assistant Certification
• Registered Nursing License (RN) from the Louisiana State Board of Nursing
• Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) from the Louisiana State Board of Nursing

• Physician Assistant (PA) - Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners