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

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

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in California seeks an experienced Nurse Practitioner to support inpatient physicians and the healthcare team in managing patients with serious, life-limiting illness. The role includes coordinating post-acute follow-up and referrals, and educating patients and families about the inpatient care plan.

Collaboration with the medical team is essential, with a strong emphasis on quality improvement and ongoing education.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing or equivalent required.
• Current California RN license and NP certification required.
• BLS certification for healthcare professionals required.
• DEA registration required for controlled substances.
• Ability to collaborate with physicians and care teams.

Responsibilities

• Assist inpatient physicians and care team in managing care for patients with serious, life-limiting illness.
• Coordinate post-acute follow-up, consults, and referrals to support the plan of care.
• Educate patients and families about expected hospital course and treatment options.
• Participate in education programs, quality improvement, and utilization management.
• Collaborate with acute and primary providers to ensure timely communication and care transitions.

Skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Collaboration

Education

Master's Degree in Nursing or equivalent

California Registered Nurse (RN) license

AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (BLS)

California Nurse Practitioner Certificate

DEA Controlled Substances 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

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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 disabi