Hospice & Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner

Lead with compassion. Deliver care that truly matters. As a Hospice & Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, you’ll support patients and families through some of life’s most meaningful moments. Grow your career while making a lasting impact in your community.

The Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner is a registered professional nurse with advanced graduate education and clinical training who provides comprehensive hospice services in compliance with the state Nurse Practice Act and under the supervision of a collaborating physician. Provides hospice care through the evaluation and assessment of the health history, health promotion, diagnosing medical conditions, management of health problems by directing and developing the plan of care, prescribing medications or treatments, coordinating and collaborating with patients, families, and other healthcare practitioners.

Under the supervision of a physician, the nurse practitioner visits patients, completes physical assessments, performs face‑to‑face assessments and evaluates hospice eligibility as assigned in consultation with the hospice interdisciplinary team. The nurse practitioner builds from the resources of the community to plan and direct services to meet the need of individuals and families within their homes and communities.

This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

• Provides medical care, palliates, and manages terminal illness in compliance with the state Nurse Practice Act under the supervision of a collaborating physician.
• Completes history and physical examinations, orders and interprets laboratory and diagnostic test results, diagnoses health conditions, and documents findings in the patient’s medical record.
• Manages health conditions and terminal illnesses by developing an individualized plan of care, prescribing, administering and dispensing medications and/or treatments, obtaining consultations or referrals, and coordinating hospice care services.
• Completes hospice face‑to‑face visit requirements before the third and subsequent hospice benefit periods to assess eligibility based on the hospice conditions of participation and local coverage determinations. Provides clinical information to the hospice medical director for eligibility assessment and recertification.
• Makes recommendations to the hospice medical director regarding patient eligibility for certification and recertification for hospice care.
• Reviews clinical information, coordinates and oversees patient care in consultation with the hospice interdisciplinary team and other healthcare practitioners.
• Participates with the physician in quarterly review of the patient’s health record.
• Ensures that patients receive appropriate measures to control symptoms through collaboration with interdisciplinary team members.
• Reviews and develops protocols for treatment and proposes options for interventions based on the literature in collaboration with the collaborating physician.
• Consults the collaborating physician when the patient’s plan of care is outside standardized practice and protocols.
• Provides general preventive health care to palliative care patients. Manages and follows up on routine and problem patients.
• Adheres to policies and procedures as outlined in the Policy and Procedure Manual.

• Communicates and collaborates with the interdisciplinary group to create, review and revise the patient’s plan of care.
• Consults with the patient’s attending physician, the hospice medical director and other healthcare practitioners regarding eligibility for hospice care, ongoing care needs and medical management related to the terminal condition.
• Works with the Medical Director to ensure compliance with practice activities around patient satisfaction, utilization, productivity, clinical competence, and peer satisfaction.
• Communicates with other community health practitioners to coordinate the plan of care.
• Attends and participates in meetings, including hospice interdisciplinary group meetings.
• Completes, maintains and submits accurate and relevant clinical notes, physical…