Nurse Practitioner - Palliative Care - Cardinal Glennon Footprints

It's more than a career, it's a calling

MO-SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Nurse Practitioner - Cardinal Glennon Children's Footprints - Palliative Care

• Join a collegial department

• Palliative Care background a plus

• Full Time

• Assist physician teams with complex patient care

• Direct the nurse navigators

• Competitive Compensation

• Comprehensive Benefits

At SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, children from Missouri, Illinois and around the world receive exceptional care from dedicated caregivers, regardless of their family's ability to pay. Through ever-improving diagnostic techniques and treatment options, we offer hope to families of children who may not have survived as recently as 20 years ago. Through our more than 60 pediatric subspecialties and the skills of our world-class doctors and nurses, we are able to help many children who face uncertain futures because of a serious or complex diagnosis.

This is where the Footprints? team comes in. Footprints? is dedicated to comfort, advocacy and support of children with complex medical issues and their families. The care coordination provided by Footprints? addresses not only the child's physical needs, but the emotional, spiritual and psychosocial needs of the entire family.

The Footprints? team interfaces with several of our specialty areas, including the St. Louis Fetal Care Institute and The Costas Center, to provide comprehensive wraparound services that involve everyone relevant to the care of the child, making sure that the family's wishes are honored. In addition to assistance with care plans, advance directives and care coordination, families benefit from a personal relationship with a clinical professional dedicated to their child's well-being and quality of life.

Job Summary:

In collaboration with physician(s), demonstrates and provides professional nursing care to specialty patients requiring an advanced level of knowledge and management of their nursing care.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Initiates and provides medical interventions in response to acute changes in patient conditions.

• Provides educational services to nursing and ancillary departments and serves as an educational consultant on clinical practice issues.

• Applies evidence based practices to achieve multidisciplinary collaboration to facilitate continuity of care.

• Contributes to the satisfaction of the medical staff by collaborating with physicians to deliver best care.

• Recognizes and utilizes opportunities to act as a change agent by introducing nursing practice innovations.

• Evaluates nursing practices associated with specialty area, defines needs/problems with patient care and makes constructive suggestions that creates a positive patient outcome.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Master's degree from nationally accredited Nurse Practitioner program

EXPERIENCE

• One year experience

Licenses / Certifications:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - State of Work Location

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

~~~ Footprints Pro Fee

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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