Nurse Practitioner: Home Health
About The Position
The Nurse Practitioner provides high quality advanced nursing care in accordance with professional regulatory standards and within the scope of the nurse practitioner license. This role provides multidisciplinary care providing patient evaluations and assessments, patient education, interventions, and documents plan of care. Requests physician consultations and multidisciplinary consults. Recognizes that ethical/legal/medical dilemmas exist in the nursing practice, and confers with the appropriate resources and staff when making ethical decisions. May work as an independent provider and/or under indirect supervision of a supervising physician. May see all and treat a variety of age populations. Depending on area, may work different hours, weekends and holidays. May require on-call time. Privileges granted by the Medical Staff Department can include arranging admission and transfer of patients, performing and dictating exams, history and physicals, rounding on assigned patients and writing progress notes with plan of care, and dictating discharge summary. Also may furnish medications (non-narcotic) and durable medical equipment (DME), controlled substances III, IV, V with appropriate licensure/certification, and controlled substances II with appropriate licensure/certification. May order blood products, laboratory tests, radiological, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and neurological studies, oxygen therapy, respiratory treatment, and pulmonary tests. May perform drain and suture removal. May order and administer medications and IV therapy with the ability to assess and adjust appropriate dosing. Performs other duties as assigned. Hospice: In addition, the Hospice Nurse Practitioner is responsible for providing explanation of benefits to GIP program and home hospice candidates (or their DPOA), and admitting patients to the hospice GIP program. The Hospice NP functions as an integral member of the hospice interdisciplinary team and provides daily visits for hospice care patients and coordinates their plan of care with other designated hospice and hospital staff, and, on an as-needed basis, fulfills the requirements of the “face-to-face encounter” with a Medicare beneficiary enrolled in hospice.
Requirements
- Master’s in Nursing (MSN) or DNP required
- Completion of proctoring by Medical Staff Office
- Advanced clinical knowledge and skills in the care and management of patients
- Current license in good standing to practice as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner in California
- Furnishing license issued by the State of California and personal DEA number (For all areas other than Breast Center)
- BLS required
- National board certification as Nurse Practitioner in area of specialty required (except Outpatient Oncology)
Responsibilities
- Provide patient evaluations and assessments
- Provide patient education
- Provide interventions
- Document plan of care
- Request physician consultations and multidisciplinary consults
- Recognize ethical/legal/medical dilemmas and confer with appropriate resources
- Arrange admission and transfer of patients
- Perform and dictate exams, history and physicals
- Round on assigned patients and write progress notes with plan of care
- Dictate discharge summary
- Furnish medications (non-narcotic) and durable medical equipment (DME)
- Furnish controlled substances III, IV, V with appropriate licensure/certification
- Furnish controlled substances II with appropriate licensure/certification
- Order blood products, laboratory tests, radiological, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and neurological studies, oxygen therapy, respiratory treatment, and pulmonary tests
- Perform drain and suture removal
- Order and administer medications and IV therapy with the ability to assess and adjust appropriate dosing
- Provide explanation of benefits to GIP program and home hospice candidates (or their DPOA)
- Admit patients to the hospice GIP program
- Function as an integral member of the hospice interdisciplinary team
- Provide daily visits for hospice care patients and coordinates their plan of care with other designated hospice and hospital staff
- Fulfill the requirements of the “face-to-face encounter” with a Medicare beneficiary enrolled in hospice
- Perform other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
