Job Description

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🩺 Palliative Medicine Nurse Practitioner (NP) / Physician Assistant (PA)

Full-Time | Monday-Friday | Day Shift

University Medical Center | Palliative Medicine Services

🌟 Make a Meaningful Difference in Every Patient's Journey

Join a compassionate, multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving quality of life for patients facing serious illness. As a Palliative Medicine Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, you will provide advanced clinical care to patients across both inpatient and outpatient settings, helping manage complex symptoms, support patient and family goals of care, and enhance the overall healthcare experience.

This role offers a unique opportunity to combine clinical expertise, care coordination, patient advocacy, and education while working closely with physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and other healthcare professionals to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered palliative care.

🩺 Position Highlights

• Full-Time
• Monday-Friday, Normal Business Hours
• 80% Inpatient Consult Service
• 20% Outpatient Clinic
• No nights, weekends, or call requirements (if applicable)
• Collaborative multidisciplinary care environment
• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patients and families during critical stages of care

🩺 What You'll Do

🏥 Provide Advanced Clinical Care

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of patients with acute, chronic, and complex medical conditions.
• Evaluate physical, emotional, psychosocial, and symptom management needs.
• Diagnose, treat, and manage health conditions within scope of practice and approved clinical privileges.
• Perform therapeutic interventions and clinical procedures as appropriate.

📋 Develop & Manage Plans of Care

• Collaborate with physicians and interdisciplinary team members to develop individualized treatment plans.
• Monitor patient progress and modify care plans based on clinical response and changing needs.
• Promote symptom management, comfort, quality of life, and patient-centered goals of care.
• Facilitate smooth transitions across care settings, including inpatient units, outpatient clinics, and community resources.

🤝 Support Patients & Families

• Provide education and guidance regarding diagnoses, treatment options, symptom management, and care planning.
• Assist patients and families in navigating complex healthcare decisions.
• Serve as an advocate for patient preferences, values, and goals.

🎓 Educate & Collaborate

• Serve as a clinical resource for nursing staff, providers, patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members.
• Participate in patient, family, and staff education initiatives.
• Collaborate with hospital and clinic teams to promote high-quality palliative care practices.

📈 Promote Quality & Professional Excellence

• Support quality improvement, patient safety, and evidence-based practice initiatives.
• Participate in professional development, continuing education, and competency maintenance.
• Serve as a mentor and preceptor for students, advanced practice providers, and clinical staff when appropriate.

🎓 Education

Required

• Master's Degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program

🩺 Licensure & Certifications

Nurse Practitioner Candidates

• Current Louisiana Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Current Louisiana Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) License
• National Nurse Practitioner Certification
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification through the American Heart Association

Physician Assistant Candidates

• Current Louisiana Physician Assistant License
• National PA Certification
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification through the American Heart Association

✅ Experience

Required

• Previous Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant clinical experience preferred.

Preferred

• 3+ years of Palliative Care experience
• Experience in hospice, oncology, internal medicine, geriatrics, critical care, hospital medicine, or chronic disease management.
• Experience working with medically complex patient populations.

🌟 Why Join LCMC Health?

At LCMC Health, you'll be part of a mission-driven organization that values compassion, collaboration, and excellence. As a Palliative Medicine NP or PA, you'll have the opportunity to make a profound impact on patients and families while working alongside an experienced interdisciplinary team dedicated to improving quality of life. If you're looking for meaningful work, strong team support, and the opportunity to provide truly patient-centered care, you'll find it here.

🩺 Help patients live with comfort, dignity, and support when they need it most. Join our Palliative Medicine team today.

WORK SHIFT:

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

About University Medical Center

University Medical Center, a world class academic medical center in LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, is the largest medical training center for healthcare professionals in Louisiana and has long served as the region’s safety net hospital for poor and underserved communities for 300+. Learn more about University Medical Center’s legacy and our vision of becoming the epicenter of medical care, education, and research.

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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