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About the Palliative Care APPs

The Palliative Care Team is made up of 3 APPs who provide care to patients in the inpatient, outpatient and community settings. The APPs work on an interdisciplinary team made up of physicians, RN coordinators, and psychosocial team members. The roles will practice at the Philadelphia campus seeing patients in their inpatient setting, outpatient clinic, and/or the community.

The role will be required to take "call" from home one night per week in addition to day-shift clinical duties onsite Monday through Friday.

To learn more about the Justin Michael Ingerman Center for Palliative Care, please visit https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/center-palliative-care

To learn more about our Center for Advanced Practice and innovative programs for our APPs, please visit https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/center-advanced-practice

Job Summary

In collaboration with an attending physician, the Pediatric Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant is responsible for the direct care and follow-up of a population of patients that matches his/her delineation of privileges and skill set. The components of the role include clinical practice, consultation, professional development, education, and research.

Job Responsibilities

• Utilizes advanced assessment skills to manage a cohort of patients. Performs and documents daily assessments. Collects and analyzes data and formulates a family-centered plan of care.
• Performs any needed advanced procedures that are listed in the Scope of Practice Document and approved as a part of the credentialing process.
• Evaluates and monitors the effectiveness of the prescribed treatment plan. Using the most current evidence, modifies the plan of care based on the effectiveness of the treatment and the patient/family response to the plan.
• Serves as an educational resource to the patient/family, nursing staff, and provider team. Acts as a consultant to multidisciplinary health care team members.
• Participates in scholarly activities including research and education. Participates in own professional development by maintaining required competencies, identifying learning needs and seeking appropriate educational offerings. Participates in the professional development of others. Acts as a preceptor and mentor to support the development of nurses, nurse practitioners, students, and other health care providers.
• Demonstrates a commitment to patient safety by speaking up about safety issues and changing practice to enhance safety. Shares errors or potential errors through system reporting mechanisms. Demonstrates shared accountability for safe practice.

Required Licenses & Certification

If NP:

• RN license
• Certificate of Prescriptive Authority
• Licensure for Advanced Practice Role
• NP license
• National Certification – Nurse Practitioner

If PA:

• NCCPA – National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants
• PA license
• BLS/PALS/NRP (if applicable)
• DEA (if applicable)

Required Education & Experience

If NP:

• Master’s/Doctorate in Nursing as applicable to correlating program of study.

If PA:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree from an accredited physician assistant program
• Minimum years/type of experience determined by division.

To carry out its mission, it is of critical importance for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to keep our patients, families and workforce safe and healthy and to support the health of our global community. In keeping with this, CHOP has mandated all workforce members on site at any CHOP location for any portion of their time be vaccinated for COVID-19. This mandate also applies to workforce members performing work for CHOP at non-CHOP locations. The CHOP COVID-19 vaccine mandate is in alignment with applicable local, state and federal mandates.

CHOP also requires all workforce members who work in patient care buildings or who provide patient care to receive an annual influenza vaccine. Employees may request exemption consideration for CHOP vaccine requirements for valid religious and medical reasons.

Please note start dates may be delayed until candidates are fully immunized or valid exemption requests are reviewed. In addition, candidates other than those in positions with regularly scheduled hours in New Jersey, must attest to not using tobacco products.

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