Nurse Practitioner

As a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in a brand-new program in the Grand Rapids, MI area, you will lead holistic, patient-centered care for individuals with serious illness and their families. Responsibilities include conducting thorough assessments, developing and managing individualized care plans, guiding symptom management (pain, dyspnea, nausea, anxiety) with evidence-based practices, facilitating goals-of-care discussions and advance care planning, coordinating with patients, families, and referral sources for continuity and quality, educating patients, families, and staff on disease progression and supportive care options, prescribing medications and therapies per scope of practice with physician collaboration, and accurately documenting encounters in the EMR. You will participate in team meetings, case conferences, quality improvement initiatives, and care transitions across settings, including coordination with hospice teams.