Nurse Practitioner

About the role

VIA Health Partners is an industry-leading, top-10 nationally ranked provider of end-of-life care and a community-based, not-for-profit hospice and palliative care provider with decades of experience serving patients and families regardless of ability to pay or medical complexity. We are a people-first organization whose funds go directly to serving our mission. Due to significant growth, we are seeking staff who share these values.

Responsibilities

• Promote the highest quality of end-of-life care, including hospice care and advanced directives.
• Prevent suffering and alleviate physical, spiritual, and psychological pain.
• Diagnose, treat, and manage pain and other symptoms commonly experienced by end-of-life patients.
• Guide patients and families on disease progression, prognosis, and benefits/burdens of therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs.
• Prescribe and/or recommend therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs, including narcotics, within ethical principles of medicine.
• Consult with the Medical Director or Medical Services Physician when exceeding scope of practice.
• Serve as an end-of-life care education resource within the organization and the community.
• Pursue educational opportunities that improve patient outcomes.
• Evaluate patients through history and physical examinations.
• Discuss patient care with attending physicians, consultants, nursing staff, and other professionals.
• Prescribe systemic and topical drug therapies, including narcotics, for pain and other symptoms.
• Conduct patient/family meetings to review medical issues and establish goals of care.
• Provide general psychosocial support.
• Refer for diet/exercise therapies and recommend non-pharmacological therapies such as massage, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and music therapy.
• Recommend additional psychosocial counseling by mental health professionals.
• Prescribe medical supplies and equipment.
• Recommend appropriate diagnostic tests and studies.
• Review and discuss advance care directives.
• Recommend referral to hospice services.
• Participate in team discussions to gain insight and suggestions.
• Self-direct learning to stay current on hospice and palliative medicine trends.
• Provide comprehensive medical care to HPCCR patients.
• Serve as a medical resource for HPCCR staff.
• Assist in staff training and education of healthcare professionals and the public.
• Optimize cost-effective care plans.
• Assist in development of policies.
• Maximize clinical efficiency to ensure reimbursement is optimized.
• Enhance palliative and hospice care by promoting earlier referrals.
• Submit billing and documentation according to policy.
• Accommodate requests from the Medical Director to add or modify duties to meet team and organizational goals.
• Perform other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing.
• Current, active, and unrestricted RN license in North Carolina.
• Official recognition as a Nurse Practitioner from the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
• Successful board certification in specialty within 2 years of hire.
• Current and unrestricted DEA and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Computer proficiency required.
• Minimum 1 year of 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.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield.
• 28 days of paid time off.
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate.
• 403(b) retirement plan with matching.
• Focused programs honoring veteran patients.
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN) certification.
• Best-in-class orientation and onboarding program.
• Career growth guided by seasoned hospice leaders.