Senior Palliative NP - End-of-Life Care Leader

VIA Health Partners; Allen Acres (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

VIA Health Partners is a community-based hospice and palliative care provider in North Carolina seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join our team. You will deliver high-quality end-of-life care, evaluate patients, manage symptoms, and collaborate with the Medical Director to align goals of care with patient needs.

The position emphasizes compassionate patient and family guidance, symptom management, and coordination with multidisciplinary staff to ensure optimal care.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Promotes the highest quality of end of life care including hospice care and widespread use of advanced directives.
• Prevents suffering and alleviation of physical, spiritual, and psychological pain.
• Diagnoses, treats, and manages pain and other symptoms frequently experienced by patients at the end of life.
• Guides and counsels patients and their families regarding disease progression, prognosis and the benefits/burdens of therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs.
• Prescribes and/or recommends therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs (including narcotics) in accordance within the ethical principles of medicine.

Skills

Hospice care

Nurse Practitioner

Pain management

Job description

VIA Health Partners is a community-based hospice and palliative care provider in North Carolina seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join our team. You will deliver high-quality end-of-life care, evaluate patients, manage symptoms, and collaborate with the Medical Director to align goals of care with patient needs.

The position emphasizes compassionate patient and family guidance, symptom management, and coordination with multidisciplinary staff to ensure optimal care.