Nurse Practitioner Hospice

A Nurse Practitioner is responsible for providing an advanced level of nursing practice to patients and families and a clinical resource to staff and the interdisciplinary team.

• Provides independent primary care, consultation, and advice to others as a highly specialized practitioner.
• Makes patient visits, assumes on-call duties, exercises prescriptive authority in collaboration with the supervising physician and directs interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Manages the coordination of care, including patient visits, of patients who have complicated diseases, as requested by the team.
• Performs comprehensive assessments for complicated patients and coordinates the plan of care.
• Performs the patient face-to-face encounter visits, when indicated, for physicians with a collaborative agreement.
• Documents and maintains appropriate records relating to all services rendered, using company defined processes|forms.
• Provides internal and external clinical education, as indicated.
• Attends and actively participates in team and staff meetings.
• Serves as a clinical resource to all staff members.
• Participates in requested quality and performance improvement activities.
• All other duties as assigned.

License Requirements

• Current CPR certification required.
• Current certification as a clinical Nurse Specialist or Nurse Practitioner in the state of practice.
• Current certification by ANCC or AANP
• Current drivers license, vehicle insurance and access to a dependable vehicle or public transportation.
• NPI Number
• DEA with prescribing privileges
• PECOS enrollment Certification
• CAQH enrolled
• Medicare number
• Medicaid number (referable, not required)

Experience

• Greater than one year NP experience in chronic disease management, family or primary care.

Additional State Practice Requirements

• AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, D.C., DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WV: No additional state specific requirements.