ADULT PALLIATIVE CARE ADVANCED PRACTICE PROVIDER

About the role

This position is field based, working in Skilled Nursing Facilities and patient homes throughout Berkshire County.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, patient-centered palliative care to patients at home and in skilled nursing facilities in Berkshire County.
• Perform comprehensive health assessments for the purpose of evaluating, treating, and providing comfort care to individuals as appropriate.
• Formulate appropriate differential evaluation, develops treatment plan to include appropriate diagnostics; identifies non-pharmacological interventions, recommends appropriate pharmacological agents, and provides education.
• Demonstrate ability to engage in serious illness conversations, counsel patients and family members about diagnosis, goal setting, and end of life, and complete necessary documentation to meet regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate palliative care for patients, ensuring a comprehensive, individualized treatment plan, while demonstrating excellent clinical skills and ethical, relevant judgment.
• Recommends diagnosis, treatment, consultation, and follow-up in collaboration with the attending and specialty physicians as well as the HCIB Medical Director.
• Communicate and document clinical findings, treatment plan and care provided in the patient's medical record in a manner consistent with acceptable standards in order to support sound medical practice and reimbursement for services provided.
• Knowable of Palliative Medicine Quality Measures collection, documentation and reporting.
• Offer advice and information to staff and referring physicians on medical interventions consistent with the plan of care and/or palliative care needs.
• Consult with attending physicians, palliative care staff and referral sources as requested, so pain and symptom management for patients is effectively and expeditiously accomplished among team members.
• Provide follow-up evaluation to patients and families and clinical consultation to hospice or palliative care staff as needed.