Nurse Practitioner- Palliative Care - Sharp Chula Vista - FT - 10H Var shift

Chula Vista Medical Center; Chula Vista (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in California is seeking a licensed Nurse Practitioner with an MSN to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in managing care for patients with serious, life-limiting illness. You will assist inpatient physicians, coordinate post-acute follow-up, educate families, and participate in quality improvement programs while maintaining strong communication with the care team.

Bilingual English/Spanish skills are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing or equivalent.
• California RN license required.
• AHA BLS for Healthcare Professionals required.
• California NP Certificate required.
• DEA Controlled Substance Registration required.

Responsibilities

• Assist inpatient physicians in managing care for patients with serious, life-limiting illness.
• Coordinate post-acute follow-up, consults, and referrals.
• Educate patients and families regarding expected course for inpatient stay.
• Documents patient encounters in EMR and reviews quarterly/annual outcomes.
• Collaborate with the medical team to ensure timely patient care and discharge.

Skills

Computer skills

Nursing expertise

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Master's Degree in Nursing

California RN License

Nurse Practitioner Certificate

DEA Registration

Job description

Hours

• Shift Start Time: Variable
• Shift End Time: Variable
• AWS Hours Requirement: 10/40 - 10 Hour Shift
• Additional Shift Information:
• Weekend Requirements: As Needed
• On-Call Required: No
• Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $80.440 - $103.790 - $116.240

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant's years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

Assists inpatient physicians and other members of the healthcare team in managing the care of patients with serious, life-limiting illness regardless of stage at Sharp HealthCare. Collaborates with patients, families, the medical team and other health team members to ensure prompt intervention to support the plan of care and facilitate communication between acute and primary providers. Recommends and coordinates post-acute follow-up, consults, and referrals. Educates patients and families regarding expected course for inpatient stay. Participates in continuing education programs and quality improvement programs and utilization management.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing or equivalent.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• California Nurse Practitioner (NP) Certificate - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• DEA Controlled Substance Registration - U.S. Department of Justice -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 Years Nurse Practitioner experience.
• Family Nurse Practitioner - ANCC (FNP-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center -PREFERRED
• Gerontological Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (GNP-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center -PREFERRED

Essential Functions

• Collaboration
  • Demonstrates collaboration with physicians, staff, patients, families, and all other internal and external customers to ensure patient and hospital outcomes.
  • Serves as a consultant to individuals and groups within the profession, lay communities, and other hospitals/institutions.
  • Provides ideas and strategies to administration for improvement in quality, financial, or customer service outcomes.
  • Assists staff with implementation of patient improvement processes.
• Education
  • Assists in the provision of formal education to the nursing staff on new procedures, methods, etc. effecting patient care delivery and outcomes.
  • Provides informal education while providing direct patient care.
  • Assists in the provision of patient/family education by providing information to patient/family and assisting staff with development or revisions of educational materials.
  • Precepts students and/or new staff.
  • Identifies learning needs of the serious life-limiting illness or palliative care population and assists in the development of educational programs/resources.
• Outcomes Management/Documentation
  • Documents patient encounters in electronic medical record and reviews summary report at least quarterly.
  • Reports outcomes to leadership, physicians, and staff at least annually.
• Patient care
  • Coordinates with staff in setting patient centered goals to meet outcomes.
  • Conducts rounds to evaluate care, identify problems, and initiate actions for patients with serious, life-limiting illness per scope of practice and the credentialing process.
  • Utilizes advanced nursing skills to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate management of symptoms and goals of care.
  • Communicates with all levels of personnel and patient/family to coordinate and facilitate timely patient care and discharge.
  • Facilitates the ethical decision making in patient care.
  • Anticipates patient outcomes and takes appropriate action to ensure or minimize deviations in care.
• Professional development
  • Develops skills to keep current with specialty practice and technological advances as negotiated with supervisor.
  • Participate in research studies as negotiated with supervisor.
  • Disseminates practice outcomes to the professional community through presentations, conference participation or publishing as negotiated with supervisor.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expert level in computer skills.
• Strong advanced nursing skills and excellent time management, strong critical thinking, strong communication, strong physician collaboration skills. Speaks and understands English and Spanish well, both written and verbal.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class

• Master's Degree in Nursing
• Family Nurse Practitioner - ANCC (FNP-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Gerontological Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (GNP-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• California Nurse Practitioner (NP) Certificate - CA Board of Registered Nursing
• DEA Controlled Substance Registration - U.S. Department of Justice
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association