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NP Provider Hospice & Palliative Care

MJHS

Carteret, NJ

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SKILLS
Administrative Skills, Basic Life Support (BLS), Best Practices, CPR Certification, Clinical Medicine, Communication Skills, Community and Social Services, Corporate Funding, Documentation, Driver's License, Geriatrics, Health Plan, Healthcare, Home Care, Hospice Care, Hospital, Medicare, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Nonprofit, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Nursing Credentials, Nursing Home, On Call, Operational Support, Organizational Skills, Palliative Care, Patient Care, Problem Solving Skills, Quality Assurance, Rehabilitation Nursing, Set Goals, Staff Training, Student Loans, Training/Teaching, Willing to Travel
LOCATION
Carteret, NJ
POSTED
6 days ago
$15,000 Sign-On Bonus or Student Loan Assistance!

This field-based position will cover the following locations: Northern Brooklyn, Lower Half of Manhattan and The New Jewish Home.

MJHS is a large not-for-profit health system in the Greater New York area. Our range of health services include home care, hospice and palliative care for adults and children, rehabilitation and nursing care at Menorah, and the research based MJHS Institute for Innovation and Palliative Care. We also offer Elderplan/HomeFirst: health plans for Medicare and dual-eligible individuals. As a not-for-profit organization, many of our programs and services are made possible through the generosity of grateful families, corporate donors and grants, as well as our own employees.

Our groundbreaking hospice and palliative care programs offer a significant difference when dealing with a life-limiting condition. We offer a broad range of services in the community or facility-based to help patients and their families ease the burden of managing a life-limiting illness or end of life care.
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) provider is one of a group of MDs and NPs who staff palliative care consultation services that function as programs of MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care.  The NP Provider may work in a nursing home, hospital or community environment.  Specialist skills in symptom management, communication including goal setting discussions, and hospice eligibility review, and may work independently or as part of a treatment team.  Initial patient encounters are in response to consultation requests, and the initial consultation may be followed by one or more visits, as appropriate to the referral questions and status of the patient and family.  The care plan advanced by the NP Provider aims to prevent or mitigate illness burden for the patient and family.  Each encounter comports with best practices of specialist palliative care, including history-taking, appropriate examination, formulation and care planning, treatment recommendation or implementation, communication, and documentation.  Other responsibilities include developing quality initiatives, educating staff, and supporting hospice operations through participation in the provider on call rotation and performance of face to face encounters as needed.
  • Implements specialist palliative care consultation services as a provider.
  • Maintains effective communication with referral sources.

  • Performs timely, accurate and compliant documentation.

  • Identifies self- learning needs and outlines a plan for continuing education.

  • Demonstrates a professional, courteous, and respectful attitude in dealing with referral sources, healthcare professionals, patients and family members.

  • Performs other clinical or administrative tasks consistent with professional scope of practice.

  • Performs other clinical or administrative tasks consistent with scope of practice from time to time, as requested by management.

• Master's degree in Nursing and Graduate of an approved Nurse Practitioner Program required
• Minimum of 1-year clinical experience as a NP provider preferred

• Hospice, Palliative Care and/or Geriatric nursing or NP experience preferred

• NYS NP License (Certified Adult, Family, Gerontology, or Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner )

• CPR-BLS
• NYS Driver's license and car
• Hospice & Palliative Care certification strongly encouraged by year 2 of hire
• Microsoft Word and Excel
• Ability to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the position
• Ability to coordinate the resources and personnel involved in a comprehensive interdisciplinary team environment
• Ability to travel within the assigned geographic area to provide patient care
• Possess teaching, communication, and listening skills
• Ability to work non-judgmentally with patient / family members of any culture, religion, socio-economic background or lifestyle
• A high degree of accountability
• Excellent communication, listening, and organizational skills
• Ability to work within an integrated health care team
• Ability to demonstrate effective critical thinking skills
• Ability to problem solve independently

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