• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit: n/a
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary: n/a
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000

Position Summary

The Adult Palliative Care Service at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital is seeking an experienced NP to join our interdisciplinary palliative care program.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient palliative care consultations in critical care, oncology, neurology, cardiology and surgical units.
• Provide consultative services on medicine and surgical patients, in both ICU and non-ICU settings.
• Conduct daily rounds and work together with an interdisciplinary palliative care team, consisting of a physician, social worker, chaplain, hospice and palliative medicine fellow and often other learners (medical and nursing students, other clinical fellows, etc.).
• Provide comprehensive pain and symptom management, assist with clarifying goals of care, and provide support to patients and families.
• Participate in developing educational and/or QI projects for nurses and others at the institution.
• Perform related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus one to two years of hospice or palliative care experience
• Experience in either hospice or palliative care
• HPNA certification (or eligibility within 1 year)
• Current New York State NP and RN licenses, board certification, DEA license, and BCLS certification
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to adapt to flexible schedule and fast/changing work environment
• Comfortable working in a busy academic hospital
• Competency in specialist level pain and symptom management

Preferred Qualifications

• Inpatient hospital experience

Other Requirements

• Participation in the medical surveillance program
• Contact with patients and/or human research subjects
• Wear N-95 respirator
• Potential bloodborne pathogen exposure
• Work with known infectious agents or biological toxins where prophylactic vaccination is available
• Physical demands

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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