NP/PA - Inpatient Palliative Care - Grand Rapids, MI

About the role

The Inpatient Palliative Care team is seeking a compassionate Advanced Practice Provider (NP or PA) to join them providing consults to hospitalized adult patients. You will join a growing group of physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, chaplains, and social workers along with administrative support.

Responsibilities

• Writes orders/prescriptions for standard formulary medications, laboratory, radiographic studies and consultations, coordinating the scheduling of admissions, diagnostic evaluations, follow-up exams, laboratory tests, referrals to home care, social services, and other community agencies, etc., in order to ensure continuity of care and coordination of services.
• Obtains histories and performs physical exams.
• Assesses the patient’s/significant other’s, health care team’s, school’s and other community educational needs and develops, implements, evaluates and revises teaching strategies/educational programs related to area of specialty.
• Ensures that operations are in compliance with professional standards, applicable laws, accreditation, compliance/regulatory requirements and that organizational goals are being followed.
• Practices in accordance with the Michigan Public Health Code.
• Delivers care in a manner that is culturally sensitive and preserves patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Acts as a patient advocate, crossing multidisciplinary lines to meet patient needs.
• Communicates, collaborates, networks with and acts as a consultant to other members of the health care team within and outside Spectrum Health.
• Acts as a consult in area of expertise.
• Performs and assists with designated procedures.
• Documents in the medical record and dictates information as appropriate.
• Provides input into the strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of service/program.
• Makes recommendations to improve the quality of patient care provided and utilizes the scientific method to research clinical problems.

Qualifications

• Nurse Practitioner: Required Master's Degree, 3 years of relevant experience, current, relevant clinical experience, previous experience functioning in a collaborative role as a Nurse Practitioner, LIC-Nurse Practitioner (NP) - State of Michigan, CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Physician Assistant: Required Master's Degree, Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant educational program, LIC-Physician Assistant - State of Michigan, CRT-Physician Asst Certified (PA-C) - NCCPA National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS)

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals. Learn more here. On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more! Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings.