Job Description

Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner

Schedule:

Our Inpatient palliative care team serves patients 7 days a week. After your orientation period - your schedule will be determined based on need and discussed at the time of the interview. There is no on call duty associated with this role.
This role will work 40 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on team needs.

Caseloads and Visits:

Your caseloads will be variable based on schedule and patient census.
Consultation visits can be up to 90 minutes; follow up visits can range from 15 to 45 minutes.
The productivity goal is 6-8 patients daily, 1-2 new consults with 5-6 follow up visits.

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll see your patients in a hospital environment. We provide quality care regardless of circumstance to a variety of different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
You’ll need to be comfortable educating the caregivers on how to care for their loved one. This might include things like disease education, advance care planning, how to administer medications, and what to expect at end-of-life.
You’ll be provided with a company phone, and other equipment as applicable to perform your duties.
You will coordinate care between your patient’s community medical providers, and other disciplines to provide updates, obtain and place new orders. This coordination takes place during and in between visits.
You will be part of an Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) consisting of a physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, and a medical social worker. The team meets each morning at 8:30 AM to review patient assignments and discuss complex cases as needed. There is also a monthly business meeting with our CMO.
You’ll also collaborate with inpatient hospice clinical liaisons to coordinate and facilitate patient care at end-of-life.

About Lower Cape Fear LifeCare

At Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, we began in 1980 as a hospice dedicated to providing compassionate care to patients and families facing life-limiting illnesses. Over the years, as our communities have grown, so have we—expanding our services to include palliative care, memory care, and grief support.

In 2024, we opened the first free-standing Palliative Medicine clinic in southeastern North Carolina, providing expert care for those managing serious illnesses, focusing on symptom relief, quality of life, and patient-centered decision-making. Additionally, our LifeCare Memory Partners division is proud to be the only provider east of Raleigh, north to Virginia, and south to Charleston to be accepted into the prestigious CMS GUIDE program, empowering caregivers and enhancing the lives of individuals with Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

Today, we care for over 1,000 patients daily across southeastern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina. Our services are offered in homes, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospitals, and our serene inpatient hospice care centers in Wilmington, Bolivia, and Whiteville.

Grief support is central to our mission. We provide free counseling for adults and children, including workshops, individual sessions, and programs like Sunrise Kids, ensuring that families have the tools to navigate loss with compassion and connection.

As a nonprofit organization, we rely on our community's generosity and our Foundation's support to ensure we can provide care to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. Guided by our values of quality, teamwork, respect, compassion, and integrity, we are dedicated to serving all touched by life-limiting illness.

Learn more about how we’re making a difference at www.lifecare.org.

To explore our open positions or join our interest list, visit: https://lifecare.org/join-our-team

Industry

Healthcare & Social Services

Company Size

201-500 employees

Headquarters

Wilmington, NC

Year Founded

1980

Website

lifecare.org

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