Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care

Site: Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation

 

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.

 

The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.

Supportive and palliative care is focused on improving the quality of life for you and your family by reducing the physical and emotional burden of illness, through expert use of symptom management, supportive counseling and advanced care planning.

Palliative care gives you a chance to live your life more comfortably. Palliative care provides relief from distressing symptoms including pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite, problems with sleep and many other symptoms. It can also help you deal with the side effects of the medical treatments you’re receiving. The goal is to improve your overall quality of life.

Our Palliative Care team is here to listen, counsel and emotionally support you. Take advantage of our years of experience in treating pain, fatigue, anxiety and the other symptoms associated with serious illnesses.

Consider us a valued resource and sounding board as you assess your treatment options and symptom management.

Our professional clinicians work with hospitalists and your primary care doctors to provide you every day with the best, most comprehensive, customized care.

 

Job Summary

We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Nurse Practitioner to work onsite. This position will consist of 4x10-hour week day shifts.

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a licensed provider. The NP is responsible for the assessment and management of various populations of patients, medical and/or surgical, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, development of appropriate plans of care and ongoing evaluation. May also perform additional duties, such as precepting a small group of learners.

Does this position require Patient Care? Yes

Essential Functions
-Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to a designated patient population in the ambulatory, inpatient, operative, and/or procedural setting.
-Performs complete histories and physical examinations.
-Orders, interprets, and evaluates appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests.
-Develops appropriate plans of care and follow-up based on the outcomes of diagnostic, laboratory, and physical examination findings.
-Orders medications and writes prescriptions according to organizational and regulatory policies and procedures.
-Consistently provides high quality and timely documentation including admission and progress notes, procedure notes, operative notes and discharge summaries.
-Performs bedside procedures as are appropriate to the patient population.

 

Qualifications

Education
Master's Degree Nursing required

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
No

Licenses and Credentials
Class D Passenger Vehicle Driver's License [State License] preferred

Registered Nurse [RN - State License] - preferred

Basic Life Support [BLS Certification] - preferred

Nurse Practitioner [NP] / Advanced Practice Registered Nurse [APRN] [State License] preferred

Nurse Practitioner [NP] / Advanced Practice Registered Nurse [APRN] [State License] preferred

Experience
2 years of licensed nurse practitioner experience required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Skilled in taking medical histories to assess medical condition and interpret findings.
- Ability to maintain quality control standards.
- Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations.
- Ability to interpret,