Description
Palliative Care | Cape Girardeau, MO | Full Time
- Provides palliation and management of chronic/terminal conditions.
- Promotes the highest quality of care for patients and families
- Models a culture of safety for the organization and demonstrates a commitment to patient safety and as a leader, educates others regarding patient safety
- Orders and evaluates appropriate diagnostic studies.
- Performs and monitors therapeutic procedures.
- Records and documents assessment data, interventions, results and patient outcomes.
- Stays current on charting, billing, dictation daily.
- Maintains appropriate records and documentation of clinical and educational activities
- Recognizes and uses appropriate channels to communicate stressful patient care/performance situations that arise with physicians, families, and other staff members
- Acts as a role model and in selected cases, precepts advance practice nurses, i.e. nurse practitioner students (as appropriate)
- Serves on interdisciplinary committees as required
- Responsible and accountable for quality care of patients by utilizing the nursing process as defined for Advanced Practice nurses in the Missouri Nurse Practice Act.
- Collaborates with nursing staff in all settings to implement and evaluate patient care delivery.
- Demonstrates understanding of team approach and communication. Contributes to a positive atmosphere, demonstrates excellent internal and external customer service skills.
- Works with collaborating physician(s) regarding quality improvement activities. Contributes to the development of new ideas to benefit the department, hospital, and/or staff.
- Demonstrates knowledge in communication and counseling patients and families in dealing with end of life issues.
- Facilitates discussions related to ethical patient care issues, assisting to achieve satisfactory resolution to the patient care issue.
- Builds a culture of respect, trust, and professionalism among medical staff providers which is represented by fairness, integrity, and nondiscrimination.
- Patient advocacy. Demonstrates the ability to work with diverse social and economic situations without imposing own values. Maintains appropriate professional boundaries
- Performs other duties as needed to successfully fulfill the function of the position
- Perform physical assessment in the hospital setting
- Evaluates assessment data and establishes appropriate treatment regimen
- Collaborates with other providers to develop and update patient’s plan of care and ensures adequate pain and symptom management and control
- Serves as a resource regarding pain and symptom management for staff as well as patients and families
- Documents care provided in the EMR providing evidence of progression of the end-stage disease process
- Educate patients/families and staff to promote an understanding of the underlying disease process and expected future course of their illness
- Work closely with case management and care transitions team to ensure a smooth post-acute care transition.
- Assist in creating a process for identifying appropriate palliative care referrals to help reduce readmissions
- Serves in consulting role and collaborates with attending physicians
- Perform physical assessment in the home and nursing home settings.
- Evaluates assessment data and establishes appropriate treatment regimen.
- Ensures palliative care visits are coded correctly for optimal and accurate billing.
- Supervises clinical activities of ancillary team members.
- Acts as a role model and in selected cases, precepting advance practice nurses.
- Collaborates with patient’s attending physician to develop and update the patient’s plan of care and ensure adequate pain and symptom management and control.
- Serves as a resource to hospice/home health/palliative care patients/families and attending physicians regarding pain and symptom control management. Provides education and training to provide continuous learning opportunities.
- Documents care provided in the EMR providing evidence of progression of the end-stage disease process.
- Provides patient education related to patient and symptom management.
- Community physician liaison.
- Handles phone calls from home care staff.
- Rotating on call responsibility 24/7 for palliative care patients.
- Works in an independent/interdependent relationship with medical staff members to facilitate consultation, collaboration or referral
- Works closely with physicians in all specialty areas to coordinate patients’ plan of care
- Serves as a resource to members of the health care team to facilitate patient care delivery by using an in-depth pathophysiological knowledge base
- Enhances collaboration between Southeast Health and healthcare providers to promote teamwork and communication among the entire healthcare team.
- Acts as resource to Providers and staff and is available to provide educational programs which will improve clinical skills, enhance knowledge base and improve patient care
- Maintains and enhances a current level of knowledge relative to professional practice, as well as continuing education requirements necessary for licensure and ongoing certification
- Accepts self-responsibility for advancing skills and continuing education as evidenced by:
- Setting realistic and measurable goals for individual developmental needs based on personal, peer, and supervisory evaluations of strengths and learning needs
- Assessing own performance status in relation to this position description and progress toward achievement of professional goals on an annual basis
- Seeks learning experiences/responsibilities to strengthen areas requiring development and to advance knowledge about other current developments in nursing
- Staff, physician, and community education. Acts as a liaison to physicians in the community and provides for consultation and education to colleagues related to admission criteria for hospice and palliative care.
- Participants in activities necessary to annual competency review. Documents continuing competency in the areas of medical diagnoses, therapeutics, invasive procedures and management of the patient as well as required certifications
- Bachelor's Degree Nursing required
- Master's Degree preferred
- Minimum of 2 years Clinical experience and certification in his/her field of expertise preferred
- Experience with Palliative Care preferred
- RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure And/Or Compact State Licensure In the State of Missouri Upon Hire required
- APRN-BC - Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified In the State of Missouri Upon Hire required
- BLS - Basic Life Support Upon Hire required