What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pain and Symptom Management Expert position at Empatia?
Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Role
This role involves working in collaboration with the Palliative Care Medical Director and other palliative team members to deliver palliative care by providing diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for patients referred to palliative care. The APRN will be responsible for patient palliative care from the initial assessment through discharge, assessing disease-specific changes, decline or change in function, nutrition and/or cognition, inadequately controlled pain or other distressing symptoms, falls, infections, or similar events, and the impact of the disease burden on the patient's condition, caregiver, and/or family's quality of life. The APRN will establish the palliative plan of care, individualized for each patient, in consultation with the patient, family, and other members of the Palliative Care Team.
This role involves working in collaboration with the Palliative Care Medical Director and other palliative team members to deliver palliative care by providing diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for patients referred to palliative care. The APRN will be responsible for patient palliative care from the initial assessment through discharge, assessing disease-specific changes, decline or change in function, nutrition and/or cognition, inadequately controlled pain or other distressing symptoms, falls, infections, or similar events, and the impact of the disease burden on the patient's condition, caregiver, and/or family's quality of life. The APRN will establish the palliative plan of care, individualized for each patient, in consultation with the patient, family, and other members of the Palliative Care Team.
