RN SPECIALIST/PALLIATIVE CARE Job Details | HHC

Division:Eskenazi Health

Sub-Division: Hospital

Req ID: 21908

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Days

Salary Range:

Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 327-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus as well as at 10 Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.

FLSA Status

EXEMPT

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Job Role Summary

The RN-Specialist Palliative Care serves as clinical consultant, educator, practitioner, and care coordinator with duties to include, but not be limited to: triage, scheduling, medicine reconciliation and procurement, serving as inter- and intra- healthcare liaison to facilitate quality patient care and achieve optimal care outcomes. This position provides care/interventions to identified clients and families which may include but are not limited to: advanced care interventions/procedures, in-depth patient and family education, patient and family counseling, in-depth patient assessment, and documents in the medical record through providing care in an outpatient setting with interventions consistent with scope of licensure and professional credentialing.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Functions as a clinical practice expert providing focused professional nursing care for identified specialty in the outpatient setting
• Participates in own professional development by maintaining clinical education requirements
• Establishes and facilitates patient care goals with patient, family, and health care team to achieve optimal outcomes, by providing education, coordinating care, and monitoring progress
• Collaborates with identified team to achieve organizational objectives/goals for clinical program and individual practice within area of expertise
• Provides direct care/interventions to identified clients and families.
• Adapts care and interventions to meet patient care needs in relation to age, size, language, and culture
• Self-directive, efficient and comprehensive in completion of workload
• Utilizes established protocols to manage phone, triage of patients to identify level of care needed, triage priority, and implementation of an appropriate plan of action
• Demonstrates effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills in working with staff, patients/families, providers, other departments and external contacts

Job Requirements

• BSN from a professional school of Nursing; MSN preferred
• Current Indiana license as a Registered Nurse
• Minimum of five years of clinical nursing experience, 3 of those years in area of expertise, and demonstrated expertise via progressive clinical experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrates advanced nursing care/clinical expertise in nursing techniques/methods/theory, competence and accountability in relation to area of expertise
• Can integrate evidence-based practice into own practice and any policy, procedure, standards and/or protocol review or development
• Excellent communication skills required
• Organize, manage and evaluate workload of self, prioritize duties and patient needs
• Initiate, teach, evaluate planning and the provision of total patient care and effectively respond to stress
• Critically think/problem-solve care issues at the system level

Accredited by The Joint Commission and named one of the nation’s 150 best places to work by Becker’s Hospital Review for four consecutive years and Forbes list of best places to work for women, and Forbes list of America’s best midsize employers’ Eskenazi Health’s programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city’s primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana, the first community mental health center in Indiana and the Eskenazi Health Center Primary Care – Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, just to name a few.