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Opportunity Criteria
Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Company Description
University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is a physician-led, internationally recognized healthcare system offering uniquely rewarding careers in major Maryland marketplaces. Create your future in a healthcare setting that is right for you and your practice. Become part of something greater by applying your experience, input, and leadership as a clinician and healthcare expert.
UM Shore Medical Center at Easton, a member of University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), is seeking a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner to join our team in Easton, MD.
UM Shore Regional Palliative Care Program is comprised of an interdisciplinary team that provides comprehensive services in both inpatient and outpatient support patients with chronic and serious health conditions.
With the goal of improving the quality of life for patients and families, palliative care provides education, psychosocial support, and symptom management at any stage of serious illness. Our providers work collaboratively with the health care team to provide high quality palliative care services to patients and families facing serious illness who are still pursuing active treatment and/or in end stages of illness.
Job Description
- Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 8 hour shifts
- Assess and manage pain and non-pain related syndromes including psychosocial distress.
- Develop individualized care plans for patients including the integration of emotional and spiritual needs.
- Assist with complex decision-making regarding therapies and treatment options that align with goals of care.
- Develop patient/family support systems and resources.
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary
- Relocation assistance
- Comprehensive Benefits including malpractice with tail, CME
- Supportive and collaborative environment
Live and work close to the spectacular Chesapeake Bay in these ideal locations that offer family friendly neighborhoods, gourmet restaurants and shopping. This regional health care network serving Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne’s, Kent, and Talbot counties includes the UM Shore Medical Center at Easton, UM Shore Health Medical Center at Dorchester in Cambridge and UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown. UM Shore Regional Health, which was formed in July of 2013, connects residents and visitors to primary care and specialty physicians, emergency medical services, and a coordinated system of prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
UMMS hospitals and health care facilities are equal opportunity employers and proud of an environment of diversity
Qualifications
- Master of Science degree with completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program required.
- Current state licensure as a Nurse Practitioner required.
- Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse required.
- Current BLS certification or obtained prior to providing direct patient care is required.
- Experience preferred, not required.
- DEA and CDS eligible.
- Demonstrates meeting minimum CME requirements for licensure and board certification.
- Demonstrates appropriate qualifications and experience to perform the duties required of this position.
Additional information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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About UM Shore Medical Group
University of Maryland Shore Medical Group (UM SMG) comprises physicians and advanced practice providers who are affiliated with University of Maryland Shore Regional Health. UM SMG providers offer health care at three hospitals, a freestanding emergency facility, five outpatient medical pavilions and clinical locations throughout our five-county service area, which includes Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties.
Our care teams provide compassionate, quality care in communities where they live, work and raise families, including Cambridge, Centreville, Chestertown, Denton, Easton, Galena and Queenstown. Equally important, for patients with complex or rare health issues requiring the attention of highly qualified medical specialists not usually available in more rural communities, UM SMG providers draw on the vast resources of University of Maryland Medical System, one of the largest and most highly regarded health care organizations in the U.S.
By choosing UM Shore Medical Group providers, you are choosing quality health care, close to home, from providers you can trust. UM Shore Regional Health is “Where the Health of the Eastern Shore Comes First.”
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About University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
UM Shore Medical Group and University of Maryland Medical System are equal opportunity employers committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. We celebrate the diversity of our workforce and welcome all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Facility & Address
University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton
- Easton MD
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