Remote Nurse Practitioner - Palliative & Hospice Care

Chapters Health System, Inc.; Elm (PA); Remote; USD 71,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

The Resource Nights & Weekend (ReNW) Nurse Practitioner (NP) is an active member of Chapters Health System’s Medical Staff and provides fully remote virtual serious illness care management to patients and families throughout our continuum of care.

This continuum may include but is not limited to home-based, facility-based, and inpatient adult and pediatric hospice; palliative care; PACE, and additional service lines and programs offered or supported by Chapters Health System.

Qualifications

• Must have a Masters or Doctorate in Nursing from an accredited Family or Adult Nurse Practitioner Program.
• National certification, licensure, and prescriptive authority in home state and other states served.
• Basic Life Support certification and compact RN license in home state by date of hire.

Responsibilities

• Provides remote virtual serious illness care management to patients and families across the care continuum (home, facility, inpatient, hospice, palliative care, PACE).
• Consults with medical staff to ensure optimal patient care and efficient service delivery.
• Performs virtual assessment of patient/family/caregiver needs.
• Identifies, manages, orders, and prescribes medications and equipment as appropriate.
• Adjusts and supports the care plan per organizational policies and nurse practice acts.
• Maintains access to EMR and e-prescribing systems; documents interactions timely.
• Participates in discharge planning and QAPI activities.

Skills

Hospice care

Palliative care

Clinical assessment

Education

Masters or Doctorate in Nursing

Job description

The Resource Nights & Weekend (ReNW) Nurse Practitioner (NP) is an active member of Chapters Health System’s Medical Staff and provides fully remote virtual serious illness care management to patients and families throughout our continuum of care.

This continuum may include but is not limited to home-based, facility-based, and inpatient adult and pediatric hospice; palliative care; PACE, and additional service lines and programs offered or supported by Chapters Health System.