Inpatient Palliative & Hospice NP — Compassionate, Impactful

National Partnership; Hobart; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Good Shepherd Community Care, a mission-driven hospice and palliative care organization, seeks an experienced Inpatient Palliative Care and Hospice Nurse Practitioner for a full-time, in-person role based at the Brighton unit. The NP will join an expanding interdisciplinary palliative care service to provide consultations and manage hospice admissions and discharges in an acute care setting.

Responsibilities include symptom management recommendations, goals-of-care conversations, daily rounds

Responsibilities

• Provide recommendations about symptom management and facilitate goals of care conversations for seriously ill patients in medical, surgical, and ICU settings
• Participate in daily team rounds
• Communicate with care teams to facilitate high-quality, compassionate care
• Evaluate patients for hospice eligibility, conduct inpatient hospice (GIP) admissions, and facilitate discharges home with hospice
• Thoroughly document visits with adherence to billing practices
• Participate as a member of the hospital’s interdisciplinary team, including representing palliative/hospice care in committees as applicable
• Conduct formal and informal education about palliative and end-of-life care

Job description

Good Shepherd Community Care, a mission-driven hospice and palliative care organization, seeks an experienced Inpatient Palliative Care and Hospice Nurse Practitioner for a full-time, in-person role based at the Brighton unit. The NP will join an expanding interdisciplinary palliative care service to provide consultations and manage hospice admissions and discharges in an acute care setting.

Responsibilities include symptom management recommendations, goals-of-care conversations, daily rounds