Nurse Practitioner (NP)/Physician Assistant (PA) - Palliative Care
Posted Sep 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
The service includes an outpatient clinic, a 24/7 inpatient team and a hospice. How do you see the outpatient role fitting with the other two?
What they are checking: Understanding how upstream care connects with inpatient and hospice to support patients over time.
How do you work with spiritual care, social work and care coordinators on your team?
What they are checking: Using the multidisciplinary team well, which the posting describes as central.
Tell me about a time you had to deliver bad news to a patient. What did you say, and how did it go?
What they are checking: Real experience and honesty in one of the hardest parts of palliative care.
How do you care for yourself in a role where you're often present for grief and loss?
What they are checking: Self-awareness and sustainability in emotionally heavy work.
What would you do
A family insists on aggressive treatment, but the patient privately tells you they're tired and want to stop. How do you handle that?
What they are checking: Advocating for the patient's wishes while working with a family under stress.
You'd see patients at outreach sites in the region. How do you build trust with referring providers in rural communities?
What they are checking: Relationship building that grows referrals and makes palliative care part of local care.
How do you help a patient complete advance care planning when they're not ready to make decisions?
What they are checking: Patience and skill in meeting patients where they are.
About the work
Walk me through how you lead a goals-of-care conversation with a patient with advanced heart failure who hasn't talked about the future yet.
What they are checking: Skill in starting difficult conversations early, the core of upstream outpatient palliative care.
How do you manage pain in a patient with cancer who is already on high doses of opioids?
What they are checking: Confident symptom control, including opioid rotation and non-opioid options.
How do you decide when to talk with a patient about hospice?
What they are checking: Judgment on timing and framing of hospice discussions so patients do not enroll too late.
How would you manage nausea and breathlessness in a patient at home with advanced lung disease?
What they are checking: Breadth of symptom management beyond pain, which outpatient palliative care relies on.
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