Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Palliative Care @ DRAH

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About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital

Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of Duke Health’s four hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.

 

 

Job Location

Duke Raleigh Hospital

 

Job Summary

The Palliative Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP) provides direct patient care services and performs medical acts under the supervision of the supervisory physician to patients >18 years of age requiring palliative care and symptom management. The APP performs physical exams, collects and documents data, conducts diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, orders and schedules laboratory studies and professional consultations, and prescribes appropriate interventions and medications. The Palliative Care APP contributes to excellence in patient care, research, teaching, and provides leadership in the organization.

 

Job Duties and Responsibilities 

• In collaboration with attending palliative care physicians, diagnose, plan treatment, set priorities, and realistic outcomes, and evaluate the effectiveness and cost efficiency of patient care.
• Provide and coordinate clinical care through established protocols and under the supervising physician or backup physician who is either on site or available by pager.
• Assess patients for change in status and institute appropriate interventions. Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize the patient until physician support arrives.
• Develop patient care pathways, protocols, and guidelines for the management of specific problems in conjunction with physicians and other members of the health care team.
• Analyze clinical practice patterns to provide optimal palliative care and to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
• Communicate verbally and in writing all pertinent patient information to referring team, supervising MD, interdisciplinary team members, patient resource manager, home health agency, a hospice agency and other relevant healthcare providers as needed.
• Document in the patients’ medical record all relevant data including but not <