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

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

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare is seeking a Nurse Practitioner for inpatient palliative care in California. The role supports physicians and the health team in managing seriously ill patients, coordinating post-acute care, and educating patients and families about expected courses during hospital stays.

Required qualifications include a Master’s in Nursing or equivalent, California RN license, AHA BLS for Healthcare Professionals, NP certification, and DEA registration.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing or equivalent.
• California RN license – CA Board of Registered Nursing – REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional – REQUIRED
• California Nurse Practitioner Certificate – REQUIRED
• DEA Controlled Substance Registration – REQUIRED

Responsibilities

• Assists inpatient physicians and healthcare team in managing care for patients with serious, life-limiting illness.
• Collaborates with patients, families, and medical teams to ensure prompt intervention and effective communication.
• Recommends post-acute follow-up, consults, and referrals; educates patients and families about expected course during inpatient stay.
• Participates in continuing education and quality improvement programs.

Skills

Computer skills

English/Spanish

Education

Master's Degree in Nursing or equivalent

Job description

Job ID

JR210734

Hours

Variable

Shift Start Time

Variable

Shift End Time

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement

10/40 - 10 Hour Shift

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