Palliative Nurse Practitioner

Palliative Nurse Practitioner

VIA Health Partners is an industry leader and top‑10 nationally ranked provider of end‑of‑life care. We are a community‑based, not‑for‑profit hospice and palliative care provider with decades of experience serving all patients’ and families’ needs regardless of their ability to pay or medical complexity. We are a people‑first organization whose funds go to serve our mission.

• Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
• 28 days of Paid Time Off
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate
• 403b Retirement plan with matching
• Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
• Best Orientation and Onboarding program you’ve experienced
• Seasoned Hospice leaders guiding your career growth

• Promote the highest quality of end‑of‑life care including hospice care and widespread use of advanced directives.
• Prevent suffering and alleviate physical, spiritual, and psychological pain.
• Diagnose, treat, and manage pain and other symptoms frequently experienced by patients at the end of life.
• Guide and counsel patients and their families regarding disease progression, prognosis and the benefits/burdens of therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs.
• Prescribe and/or recommend therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs (including narcotics) in accordance within the ethical principles of medicine.
• Plan for situations beyond the nurse practitioner’s expertise and confer with the Medical Director or a Medical Services Physician as appropriate.
• Serve as an end‑of‑life care education resource both within the organization and in the outside community.
• Pursue actively and passionately educational opportunities that lead to improved outcomes.

• Evaluate patients by performing history and physical examinations.
• Discuss patients with attending physicians, consultants, nursing staff, and other medical professionals.
• Prescribe systemic and topical drug therapies including narcotics for the pain and other symptoms.
• Conduct patient/family meetings to review medical issues and establish goals of care.
• Provide general psychosocial support.
• Refer for diet/exercise therapies.
• Recommend other non‑pharmacological therapies such as massage therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and music therapy.
• Recommend additional psychosocial counseling by mental health professionals.
• Prescribe medical supplies and equipment.
• Recommend appropriate diagnostic tests and studies.
• Review and discuss advance care directives.
• Recommend referral to hospice services.
• Participate in team discussions regarding patient care to gain insight and suggestions.
• Self‑direct learning to remain up‑to‑date on current trends in hospice and palliative medicine.

• Provide comprehensive medical care to VIA patients.
• Serve as a medical resource for VIA staff.
• Assist in staff training.
• Assist in education and training of healthcare professionals and public.
• Optimize cost‑effective plan of care.
• Assist in the development of policies.
• Maximize clinical efficiency to ensure reimbursement is optimized.
• Enhance palliative and hospice care by promoting increased and earlier referrals to palliative medicine and hospice.
• Submit billing and documentation according to policy.

• Submit all billing and documentation according to established policy.
• May perform other duties as required.

Minimum 1 year related experience. Experience in direct care of patients with life‑limiting illnesses required. Related experience may include hospice and palliative care; family medicine; internal medicine; geriatrics; oncology; home health care; medical‑surgical.

• Entry level

• Full‑time

• Health Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care