Halifax Health is seeking an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) for its Hospice and Palliative Care Programs.
The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) will be joining a collegial medical group of nurse practitioners and physicians committed to an interdisciplinary team approach of providing the highest quality comprehensive/compassionate hospice-palliative care to patients and families in a variety of settings including homes, nursing homes, hospitals, hospice care centers, and assisted living facilities. This is an opportunity to provide fulfilling and needed healthcare in an environment where ARNPs have been a respected and integral part of
the team model for years. The APRN reports to the Nurse Practitioner Coordinator and works under a collaborative agreement (as required under Florida law) with the Hospice Medical Director and other hospice/palliative physicians.
An applicant for this Nurse Practitioner II position should be an individual who is both comfortable caring for the dying patient at home and comfortable caring for the palliative care patient still desiring ongoing aggressive care in an intensive care unit. The nurse practitioner, upon completion of training, will be expected to help manage symptoms, independently facilitate family meetings, explain complex medical conditions in an understandable fashion, assess for psychosocial /emotional/spiritual angst, and collaborate readily with physician specialists, nurses, case managers, social workers, chaplains, and ancillary hospital and hospice staff.
Recognized as one of the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals™ in the United States by IBM Watson Health™, Halifax Health serves Volusia and Flagler counties, providing a continuum of health care services through a network of organizations including a tertiary hospital, two community hospitals, urgent care clinics, psychiatric services, a cancer treatment center with five outreach locations, the area’s largest hospice, a center for inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, primary care walk-in clinics, a clinic specializing in women’s health, a pediatric care community clinic, five pediatric medical practices, a home health care agency and an exclusive provider organization. Halifax Health offers the area’s only Level II Trauma Center, Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center (TSC), Center for Transplant Services, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Child and Adolescent Behavioral Services, complete Neurosurgical Services, OB Emergency Department and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that cares for babies born earlier than 28 weeks. For more information, visit halifaxhealth.org.
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