Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner

At Curana Health, the Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner will provide comprehensive specialized care to senior living residents across long-term care, assisted living, and independent living settings. This role focuses on serious illness conversations, advanced care planning, and expert symptom management to improve the quality of life for residents and their families. The clinician will collaborate closely with internal and external partners to ensure quality care and educate facility partners on palliative care principles.

Practice Info

• Based within multiple senior living facilities with travel between facilities within driving distance

• Provides care to senior living residents in long-term care, assisted living, and independent living settings

Responsibilities

• Work directly with patients and their families on end of life matters as well as goals of care planning for the chronically ill

• Function independently to complete history and physical data on patients; perform complete physical exams; interpret and integrate data to determine appropriate diagnosis and treatment plan

• Facilitate serious illness conversations with patients and their families to establish goals of care and document their preferences to ensure their choices are honored

• Guide residents and families in completing advance directives, POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) forms, or other legal documentation

• Work closely with Curana primary team and senior living facility staff to ensure no gaps in care and serve as a resource for education on palliative care principles and practices

• Collaborate with Curana primary team in managing acute and long-term medical needs of patients, acting as specialist for symptoms of advancing serious illness

• Provide expert symptom management for pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, nausea, anxiety, and other distressing symptoms, and prescribe appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities

• Order and interpret diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient needs, maintain and review patient records and charts accurately, and instruct patients and families regarding medications and treatment instructions

Compensation

• $75,000/Yr. - $100,000/Yr.

• Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package

• 401(k)

• PTO

• Paid holidays

• Curana will reimburse for certification costs

Qualifications

• Must hold current state RN and NP licensure

• Must hold a current Board Certification in a Nursing Specialty/Field

• Must possess a minimum of a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Nursing from accredited Colleges or Universities

• Minimum of 2 years of Nurse Practitioner experience strongly preferred

• Palliative care or hospice background preferred

• ACHPN certification is preferred, but not required, with a willingness to complete within a year of employment

• Must possess knowledge of Nursing and clinical Nurse Practitioner critical thinking skills application to the aged, chronically ill, and convalescent resident

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills preferred

• Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills

• Must possess traits of punctuality, organizational skills, and ability to function within a team