Full Job Description
Description:
Advanced Practice Provider Palliative Care Piedmont Augusta Hospital
Piedmont Healthcare is recruiting for a full-time Palliative Care Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to work at our Piedmont Augusta Hospital.
In this role, your essential functions will be:
- Serve as an advanced practice nurse/physician assistant in palliative care
- Collect and analyze all medical information (assessment, screening, diagnostic testing results, and prognostic indicators); develop diagnosis and treatment care plan for patient/family.
- Maintain appropriate documentation and dictation of inpatient medical records.
- Participate in the advanced care planning and education of patients, families, and the community.
- Promote clinical competency through interdisciplinary education for staff related to the service
- Serves as a consultant to the nursing staff, physicians, and other healthcare providers
- Perform planning, contracts, public education, and ethics functions.
- Provide information to palliative physicians engaged in consultations for hospitalized patients needing acute palliative or hospice palliative care.
- Communicate with patient, family, palliative care interdisciplinary team, and other health care team members.
- Collaborate with attending physicians, hospital staff, consultants, palliative physicians, and hospice medical directors regarding patient care, treatments, and services.
Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications
Three years of nursing experience in the specialty area of internal medicine/palliative care or ICU experience with demonstrated clinical competence. Demonstrated commitment to the philosophy, mission, and objectives of palliative and end-of-life care. Ability to articulate the concepts of palliative care to diverse audiences.
Minimum Education/Licensure Required:
PA: Graduate of a Physician Assistants program with current license for the Georgia State Composite Board and Licensure as a Physician’s Assistant by the National Board of Medical Examiners
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NP: Graduate from a school of nursing with current Georgia license for Advanced Practice Nursing and a Masters degree in Nursing