Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner I

🔥 57 minutes ago

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $118k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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DaVita Kidney Care is a leading healthcare company that provides dialysis and related treatments for patients with kidney disease. Committed to improving the quality of life for its patients, DaVita focuses on offering integrated kidney care and supporting its diverse team of healthcare professionals, including nurses, dietitians, social workers, and patient care technicians. The company emphasizes a strong culture, career development, and comprehensive benefits to create an inclusive and supportive work environment for its employees.

📋 Description

• Coordinate external palliative care and hospice transitions from initial recommendation through start of care • Confirm clinical eligibility, assess patient/family goals, and address remaining clinical questions • Complete orders/referrals within scope or collaborate with authorized clinicians to secure required orders and documentation • Partner with hospice agencies, nephrology practices, dialysis clinics, and payers to facilitate concurrent hospice and dialysis care • Ensure complete clinical records, track referral status, resolve transition barriers, and execute warm handoffs • Evaluate and manage complex symptoms using pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, including prescribing/deprescribing, renal drug dosing, and diagnostic studies • Coordinate symptom management plans across nephrology, hospice, external palliative care, and primary care teams • Conduct comprehensive palliative assessments and create individualized care plans • Lead culturally responsive, values-based serious-illness and goals-of-care conversations • Facilitate shared decision-making, advance directives, healthcare proxy documentation, and portable medical orders • Provide clinical guidance to an assigned interdisciplinary team of RNs and LCSWs • Lead case reviews, care planning, clinical prioritization, and closed-loop communication • Partner with Care Coordinators, clinical operations, quality improvement, and leadership stakeholders • Maintain accurate documentation and support clinical quality metrics • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s or Doctoral degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program • Current, unrestricted RN and APRN / NP license in state(s) of practice • Current national board certification in an adult-focused population (e.g., AGPCNP, AGACNP, or FNP) • Current BLS/CPR certification • Eligibility to obtain DEA registration and state controlled-substance authority as applicable • Minimum of 5 years of Nurse Practitioner experience managing adults with serious or complex illness • Experience in Palliative Care, Hospice, Nephrology, Geriatrics, or Complex Care Management • Expertise in serious illness communication, advance care planning, pain and symptom management, including controlled substances and renal dosing, and conservative kidney management • Experience guiding interdisciplinary clinical teams and navigating multi-stakeholder care coordination • Ability to become credentialed with DaVita Kidney Care, Medicare, and commercial payers • Proficiency with Electronic Health Record systems (Cerner and EPIC) and ability to demonstrate functional proficiency within 90 days • Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) • Strong commitment to patient confidentiality, compliance, and ethical clinical practice • Remote telehealth care delivery for VA & PA preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• 401k match • Healthcare coverage • Competitive total rewards package

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