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

300 Sharp HealthCare; Chula Vista (CA); Presencial; USD 111 000 - 160 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Sharp HealthCare is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to support inpatient teams in managing seriously ill patients across the care continuum. The role emphasizes collaboration with physicians, patients and families to align on care plans and ensure smooth transitions between acute and post-acute settings.

Applicants should hold a Master’s in Nursing with CA RN and NP credentials, BLS, and DEA registration, and be prepared to participate in ongoing education and quality improvement initiatives.

Qualificações

• Master's Degree in Nursing or equivalent.
• California RN license – required.
• AHA BLS for Healthcare Professionals – required.
• California NP certificate – required.
• DEA controlled substances registration – required.

Responsabilidades

• Assist inpatient physicians and healthcare team in managing patients with serious, life-limiting illness.
• Collaborate with patients, families and medical team to ensure timely plan of care and communication.
• Coordinate post-acute follow-up, consultations and referrals.
• Educate patients and families on expected inpatient course.
• Document encounters and participate in quality improvement activities.

Conhecimentos

Bilingual English/Spanish

Time management

Physician collaboration

Formação académica

Master's in Nursing

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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 Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. We provide medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, women’s health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery and bariatric surgery. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It’s what we call The Sharp Experience – treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.