Come join this collaborative and innovative team. At Integritus Healthcare you will enjoy WEEKLY pay, generous time off, exceptional health insurance, and the ability to grow in your career. Integritus Healthcare wants you! For more than 35 years, HospiceCare in The Berkshires (HCIB) has been caring for generations of our neighbors throughout Berkshire County, providing support and care for those living with a life-limiting illness. Our compassionate team guides families through this emotionally challenging time with information, resources, and expert medical care for the best possible quality of life. This position requires on-site and field visit assignments. The Adult Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner is a highly skilled professional member of the Interdisciplinary Team with the primary responsibility of providing consultations to palliative care patients and their families within their scope of practice. The incumbent in this position will support the mission, vision, values and strategic initiatives of HospiceCare in The Berkshires and must demonstrate a commitment to quality service to patients, physicians, and the public. The Nurse Practitioner leads the Palliative Care team. This professional performs patient/family evaluations, complex pain and symptom management, assess psychosocial needs and collaborates with attending or specialty physicians to provide appropriate care. Essential Job Functions: - Provide high quality, patient-centered palliative care to patients at home and in skilled nursing facilities in Berkshire County. - Perform comprehensive health assessments for the purpose of evaluating, treating, and providing comfort care to individuals as appropriate. - Formulate appropriate differential evaluation, develops treatment plan to include appropriate diagnostics; identifies non-pharmacological interventions, recommends appropriate pharmacological agents, and provides education. The plan is based on mutually established priorities to maximize the health potential and wishes of the patient and family. - In collaboration with the attending physician, specialists, and hospital staff, demonstrate ability to engage in serious illness conversations, counsel patients and family members about diagnosis, goal setting, and end of life, and complete necessary documentation to meet regulatory requirements. - Facilitate palliative care for patients, ensuring a comprehensive, individualized treatment plan, while demonstrating excellent clinical skills and ethical, relevant judgment. Recommends diagnosis, treatment, consultation, and follow-up in collaboration with the attending and specialty physicians as well as the HCIB Medical Director. - Communicate and document clinical findings, treatment plan and care provided in the patient\'s medical record in a manner consistent with acceptable standards in order to support sound medical practice and reimbursement for services provided. - Knowledgeable of Palliative Medicine Quality Measures collection, documentation and reporting - Offer advice and information to staff and referring physicians on medical interventions consistent with the plan of care and/or palliative care needs. - Consult with attending physicians, palliative care staff and referral sources as requested, so pain and symptom management for patients is effectively and expeditiously accomplished among team members. - Provide follow-up evaluation to patients and families and clinical consultation to hospice or palliative care staff as needed. For more information or to apply click here!{target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"}