Description

SHIFT: No Weekends
SCHEDULE: Full-time

• Provides hospital-based palliative care consultation for seriously ill patients and their family caregivers. All work is done in close collaboration with physicians, nursing staff, and other team members.
• Provides medical and psychosocial evaluation of patient and family; skilled and meticulous symptom management; extensive involvement in discharge planning and continuity of care efforts; and support and collaboration with primary medical staff responsible for the patient.
• Provides in-service teaching of medical, nursing and other professional colleagues and students; role modeling for physicians and nurses at all levels of training; conducts weekly team meetings. Case finding initiatives will require strong interpersonal and collegial skills with colleagues from a broad range of professional disciplines throughout the hospital.
• Demonstrates excellence in practice through full role functions – practitioner, educator, consultant, and leader.
• Keeps abreast of physician utilization of service, their specialty and specific needs.
• Participates in palliative care patient rounds to identify issues and evaluate solutions.
• Actively participates in state and regional organizations that support supportive care program development.

Qualifications

• Graduate of nursing school with baccalaureate degree in nursing; advanced degree in nursing preferred.

• Broad clinical knowledge and demonstrated experience in palliative care preferred.
• Sophisticated knowledge of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to the management of symptom distress in seriously ill and dying patients.
• Strong theory-based practice. Excellent communication skills.
• Skilled teacher with nurses at all levels of training and in diverse education settings (bedside, classroom, professional meetings).
• Confident mentor and coach for colleagues and staff.

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Company Description:

HCA Healthcare is a collaborative healthcare network, driven by physicians, nurses and colleagues helping each other champion the practice of medicine to give people a healthier tomorrow. With a comprehensive network of more than 270,000 people across approximately 1,800 care facilities, our scale enables us to deliver great outcomes for our patients, provide superior nursing care and be a preferred place for physicians to practice medicine. We never stop in our pursuit of insights and care advances based on the knowledge and data we gain from approximately 30 million patient encounters a year. Every day, we raise the bar to improve the way healthcare is delivered, not just in our facilities, but everywhere. We’re committed to improving more lives in more ways, and above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life.