Come join Hospice Of Michigan!

As the largest non-profit hospice provider in Michigan, we offer comfort and peace for patients and their loved ones. Our commitment here at Hospice Of Michigan is "Every person, Every time." Hospice Of Michigan is looking for a Nurse Practitioner passionate people to provide high quality patient care to join our team!

Job Summary: Assumes responsibility and accountability for the Nurse Practitioner (NP) role for patients within the NorthStar Care Community (NSCC) as detailed below. Provides services under collaborative practice agreement with the physicians of the practice. Participates in the on-call schedule per on-call policy.

Essential Functions for all NP Roles:

• May serve as attending provider for hospice patients if approved and requested to function in this role.
• Proactively promotes census growth within designated region(s) and seeks to offer care that meets the unmet diverse needs of the community.
• Adjusts to changes in workload, schedules based on changing departmental/organizational priorities.
• Is an active participant in Medical Staff Meetings. Attends in-person meetings as often as possible.
• Duties as assigned with the Nurse Practitioner scope of practice. This could include collaboration on research, education, innovative clinical partnerships, and new business development at the discretion of their supervisor.
• Supports other team members through collaboration on complex cases.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism in all communications with internal and external contacts responding promptly and professionally to all concerns, questions, and deadlines.
• Models and promotes knowledge of end of life care philosophies and articulates and promotes the NSCC vision, mission, and values locally, statewide, and nationally, when appropriate.
• Adheres to NorthStar Care Community Code of Conduct, policies, procedures, protocols and processes and all regulatory and legal requirements.
• Adheres to the NorthStar standards to care for every person, every time, 100% of the time.

Qualifications:

• Current licensure in the state where serving as a Nurse Practitioner, and maintain such licensure in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and perform within the scope specified.
• Master’s degree in Nursing with advanced skills in physical assessment.
• Minimum of three years clinical nursing experience and/or at least one year of post-graduate clinical nursing experience desirable in the hospice and palliative care field.
• Board certification as an Advanced Practice Hospice and Palliative Nurse (ACHPN) preferred.