Nurse Practitioner : Cancer Urgent Care

Hoag•Irvine, CA

1d•Hybrid

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. Hoag Compass – Jamboree: In addition to the above the Hoag Compass Nurse Practitioner provides support through a face to face, chat, texting, or video platform. Must be competent in the use of Consumer Health technologies and software, for example, fitness wearables and health software applications. 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. Heart Valve Clinic: In addition to the above, the Heart Valve Clinic Nurse Practitioner may be responsible for providing advanced clinical care to patients with complex heart failure across inpatient and outpatient settings, working closely with cardiologists, surgeons, and the multidisciplinary team.

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).
Endoscopy Clinic: DEA license required within 6 months of position eﬀective date.
HATC Admin: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner license designated by manager
Infusion Centers: DEA license required within 90 days of position eﬀective date
Neurosurgery – Pituitary: NPF – Nurse Practitioner Furnishing License
Neurosciences C&L Psychiatric: PMHNP strongly preferred
BLS required.
National board certiﬁcation as Nurse Practitioner in area of specialty required (except Outpatient Oncology).
Cardiac Administration: ACLS required.
DEA: DEA License
Chemical Dependency - ACLS Required
Emergency Department: ACLS required.
Endoscopy/Surgical Center for Digestive Diseases: ACLS required.
Heart Valve Clinic: ACLS required
HATC Admin: ACLS required
HMG – Primary Care: ACLS required.
HMG – Urgent Care: National Certiﬁcate in area of specialty required.
Neuro/Oncology Clinic: ACLS required.
Neurosurgery – Pituitary: ACLS required
Neuroscience: ACLS required.
Nuclear Medicine: ACLS required.
Pain Management - ACLS Required
Palliative Care: ACLS required.
Infusion Centers: ACLS required.
DEA: DEA License
Solmar Retreat: BLS – AHA Basic Life Support.
Must have Current negative TB test and health screen report or questionnaire clearance by a physician prior to employment.
The tuberculosis test shall be conducted under licensed medical supervision not more than 45 working days prior to employment or 5 working days after employment and renewed annually from the date of the last TB test.

Nice To Haves

3 years' experience in Women’s Health or Adult Oncology as a nurse/NP or equivalent.
Advanced clinical knowledge in personalized cancer risk assessment.
Training or education in genetics, bilingual preferred.
Experience in adult/geriatric cardiovascular care.
Experience in cardiovascular data collection preferred.
Experience in psychiatric/mental health.
Experience in adult/geriatric care, ambulatory, and/or inpatient care preferred.
3 plus years of clinical nursing experience, preferably in primary care.
Experience delivering care through a hybrid, virtual, and in-person model a plus.
Knowledge of electronic medical record systems, patient registration, scheduling, and insurance verification process.
Must have a passion to be a part of a team dedicated to changing healthcare access & delivery.
Experience in Family or Internal Medicine and/or adolescent/adult/geriatric care preferred.
Urgent care/ER experience or 3 years of Family Medicine as a NP preferred.
Comfortable working as a single provider and seeing patient of all ages.
Proficient in procedures frequently performed in an urgent care setting.
Experience in Orthopedics and/or recent adult/geriatric acute care preferred.
Experience as a Nurse/NP in Adult Oncology/Neurology or equivalent education and experience.
Bilingual or multilingual and/or clinical trial experience preferred.
Minimum of 1+ year recent experience as a NP, preferably in an ambulatory and acute healthcare environment or experience in Neuroscience.
2+ years experience preferred.
Bilingual or multilingual preferred.
May be asked to participate on the Crisis Response Team, Addiction and Pain Management Service.
For C&L Psychiatric, 2 years recent experience as a PMHNP.
Minimum 2 years of experience performing or assisting in invasive procedures performed with the utilization of advanced imaging.
2 years’ advance practice nursing experience, including prescribing experience, in relevant area.
Experience in adult/geriatric care preferred.
Advanced knowledge and assessment skills in Palliative Care preferred.
2+ years cardiology or advanced heart failure experience preferred.
Experience with advanced therapies (LVAD, transplant, MCS) preferred.
Hoag Orthopedic Institute: Orthopedic Nurse Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides high quality advanced nursing care in accordance with professional regulatory standards and within the scope of the nurse practitioner license.
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.
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.
Provides support through a face to face, chat, texting, or video platform.
Must be competent in the use of Consumer Health technologies and software, for example, fitness wearables and health software applications.
Responsible for providing explanation of benefits to GIP program and home hospice candidates (or their DPOA), and admitting patients to the hospice GIP program.
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.
May be responsible for providing advanced clinical care to patients with complex heart failure across inpatient and outpatient settings, working closely with cardiologists, surgeons, and the multidisciplinary team.