Nurse Practitioner Hospice PRN - Military Veterans
at LHC Group
Summary
We are hiring for a Nurse Practitioner in hospice.
At Geisinger Hospice in Danville, PA A part of LHC Group, we embrace a culture of caring, belonging, and trust and enjoy the meaningful connections that come from it: for the whole patient, their families, each other, and the communities we serve—it truly is all about helping people.
We strive to offer benefits that reward the whole you!
- employee wellness programs
- flexibility for true work-life balance
- continuing education & career growth opportunities
- company-wide support & resources to help you achieve your goals.
Take your career to a new level of caring. Apply today!
Responsibilities
- Provides independent primary care, consultation, and advice to others as a highly specialized practitioner.
- Makes patient visits, assumes on-call duties, exercises prescriptive authority in collaboration with the supervising physician and directs interdisciplinary team meetings.
- Manages the coordination of care, including patient visits, of patients who have complicated diseases, as requested by the team.
- Performs comprehensive assessments for complicated patients and coordinates the plan of care.
- Performs the patient face-to-face encounter visits, when indicated, for physicians with a collaborative agreement.
- Documents and maintains appropriate records relating to all services rendered, using company defined processes|forms.
- Provides internal and external clinical education, as indicated.
- Attends and actively participates in team and staff meetings.
- Serves as a clinical resource to all staff members.
- Participates in requested quality and performance improvement activities.
- All other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
License Requirements
- Current CPR certification required.
- Current certification as a clinical Nurse Specialist or Nurse Practitioner in the state of practice.
- Current certification by ANCC or AANP
- Current drivers license, vehicle insurance and access to a dependable vehicle or public transportation.
- NPI Number
- DEA with prescribing privileges
- PECOS enrollment Certification
- CAQH enrolled
- Medicare number
- Medicaid number (referable, not required)
Experience
- Greater than one year NP experience in chronic disease management, family or primary care.
Danville, PA
LHC Group, Inc. is a national provider of in-home healthcare services and innovations for communities around the nation, offering quality, value-based healthcare to patients primarily within the comfort and privacy of their home or place of residence. The company’s 29,000 employees deliver home health, hospice, home- and community-based services, and facility-based care in 37 states and the District of Columbia – reaching 68 percent of the U.S. population aged 65 and older. Through Imperium Health, the company’s ACO management and enablement company, LHC Group helps partners improve both savings and patient outcomes with a value-based approach. As the preferred joint venture partner for more than 400 leading U.S. hospitals and health systems, LHC Group works in cooperation with providers to customize each partnership and reach more patients and families with an effective and efficient model of care.