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Nurse Practitioner- Palliative BWH
Mass General BrighamUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Apr 2026
💰 $269,560/yr($101,400/yr – $269,560/yr)
About the role
Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Adult Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner is an expert practitioner who provides patient care, provider education, and program leadership in partnership with an interdisciplinary palliative care team.
Palliative Care Principal Responsibilities:
Patient Care
• Demonstrates advanced clinical judgement and skill in the assessment, physical examination, diagnosis, planning, and treatment of complex responses to serious illness.
• Provides symptom management during illness exacerbations and at the end-of-life.
• Provides patient and family teaching, staff education, and consults with other health care team members that include explanation of the role of palliative care.
• Demonstrates and promotes culturally and spiritually competent care by respecting diversity in ethnicity, culture, spirituality, religion, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, education level, literacy, and location.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, and healthcare professionals by applying knowledge of communication theory and principles.
• Initiates compassionate communication with patients and families around goals of care, advanced care planning, and end-of-life issues. Completes pertinent documentation, e.g., electronic medical record, MOLST forms
Leadership & Collaboration
• Establishes effective interpersonal relationships with providers from all clinical departments and interdisciplinary colleagues, including bedside nursing and hospital chaplaincy.
• Promotes the interdisciplinary team approach in the provision of palliative care to the patient and family with serious or life-threatening illness. Develops, implements, and evaluates strategies to effectively collaborate with members of the specialty palliative care team through team building and recognizes each member’s unique role, area of expertise, skills, and contributions.
• Promotes palliative care concepts to the BWH staff regarding potential or actual physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual components of living with a serious or life-threatening illness.
• Pursues own learning needs and promotes dissemination of palliative care practice by scholarship.
• Maintains membership in professional organizations and seeks advanced palliative nurse certification.
Education
• Demonstrates knowledge, skills, confidence, and the application of adult learning principles when providing palliative care education to patients/families, healthcare professionals, and the community.
• Promotes palliative care education by mentoring and precepting graduate students, fellows and other learners from nursing and other disciplines.
Quality Monitoring
• Utilizes clinical process improvement and/or research to evaluate current theories and palliative care practice, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients, families, and the community.
• Voluntarily participates in process for evaluation of areas of strength and areas for further development in collaboration with Nurse Director and team members.
The Nurse Practitioner is an advanced practice registered nurse who has acquired specialized knowledge and skills through completion of a nurse practitioner program. The practitioner has the credentials to function in an expanded nursing role and is responsible for the daily management of selected patients. The practitioner has responsibility for the assessment and management of patients, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, and the continuous implementation and evaluation of an appropriate plan of care. The Nurse Practitioner works with their collaborating physician in accordance with mutually developed practice guidelines, members of the care team, and is responsible to the Nursing Director or Executive Nursing Director for the area for issues specific to the discipline of nursing.
Satisfactory completion of an approved formal education program that has as its objective the preparation of professional nurses to practice as nurse practitioners.
APRN national certification required.
ANA or other appropriate nursing certification in the area of practice and authorization by the Massachusetts Board
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Adult Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner is an expert practitioner who provides patient care, provider education, and program leadership in partnership with an interdisciplinary palliative care team.
Palliative Care Principal Responsibilities:
Patient Care
• Demonstrates advanced clinical judgement and skill in the assessment, physical examination, diagnosis, planning, and treatment of complex responses to serious illness.
• Provides symptom management during illness exacerbations and at the end-of-life.
• Provides patient and family teaching, staff education, and consults with other health care team members that include explanation of the role of palliative care.
• Demonstrates and promotes culturally and spiritually competent care by respecting diversity in ethnicity, culture, spirituality, religion, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, education level, literacy, and location.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, and healthcare professionals by applying knowledge of communication theory and principles.
• Initiates compassionate communication with patients and families around goals of care, advanced care planning, and end-of-life issues. Completes pertinent documentation, e.g., electronic medical record, MOLST forms
Leadership & Collaboration
• Establishes effective interpersonal relationships with providers from all clinical departments and interdisciplinary colleagues, including bedside nursing and hospital chaplaincy.
• Promotes the interdisciplinary team approach in the provision of palliative care to the patient and family with serious or life-threatening illness. Develops, implements, and evaluates strategies to effectively collaborate with members of the specialty palliative care team through team building and recognizes each member’s unique role, area of expertise, skills, and contributions.
• Promotes palliative care concepts to the BWH staff regarding potential or actual physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual components of living with a serious or life-threatening illness.
• Pursues own learning needs and promotes dissemination of palliative care practice by scholarship.
• Maintains membership in professional organizations and seeks advanced palliative nurse certification.
Education
• Demonstrates knowledge, skills, confidence, and the application of adult learning principles when providing palliative care education to patients/families, healthcare professionals, and the community.
• Promotes palliative care education by mentoring and precepting graduate students, fellows and other learners from nursing and other disciplines.
Quality Monitoring
• Utilizes clinical process improvement and/or research to evaluate current theories and palliative care practice, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients, families, and the community.
• Voluntarily participates in process for evaluation of areas of strength and areas for further development in collaboration with Nurse Director and team members.
Job Summary
SummaryThe Nurse Practitioner is an advanced practice registered nurse who has acquired specialized knowledge and skills through completion of a nurse practitioner program. The practitioner has the credentials to function in an expanded nursing role and is responsible for the daily management of selected patients. The practitioner has responsibility for the assessment and management of patients, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, and the continuous implementation and evaluation of an appropriate plan of care. The Nurse Practitioner works with their collaborating physician in accordance with mutually developed practice guidelines, members of the care team, and is responsible to the Nursing Director or Executive Nursing Director for the area for issues specific to the discipline of nursing.
Satisfactory completion of an approved formal education program that has as its objective the preparation of professional nurses to practice as nurse practitioners.
APRN national certification required.
ANA or other appropriate nursing certification in the area of practice and authorization by the Massachusetts Board
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