Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care $5,000 Sign-on Bonus

We are hiring for a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner 

At Palliative Care at Heart, a part of LHC Group, we embrace a culture of caring, belonging, and trust and enjoy the meaningful connections that come from it: for the whole patient, their families, each other, and the communities we serve—it truly is all about helping people.  

We strive to offer benefits that reward the whole you!​ 

• employee wellness programs 

• flexibility for true work-life balance  

• holidays & paid time off 

• continuing education & career growth opportunities 

• company-wide support & resources to help you achieve your goals.  

​Take your career to a new level of caring. Apply today! 

The Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner/APRN provides direct patient and family care through palliative care consultation to ensure specialty services to patients with serious illness and a prognosis of one year or less who are not ready or eligible for hospice care. 

•  Demonstrates effective and ethical use of approved evidence-based palliative medicine practices in the delivery of all patient 
  care based on physical, emotional, spiritual, psycho/social, ethical, educational, safety and related criteria, appropriate to the ages of patients served. 

• Demonstrates knowledgeable clinical expertise by incorporating palliative care body of knowledge to formulate an effective plan of care. 

• Gathers pertinent information systematically from all sources, including medical records, family history, and caregivers, and thorough specialty physical, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual clinical patient assessment. 

• Completes a comprehensive assessment utilizing the palliative care domains of assessment, interprets findings, conducts medication reconciliation, and formulates problem-related diagnoses, initiates plan of care utilizing therapeutic interventions, and evaluates the results of these actions for adequate outcome responses.