Nurse Practitioner : Heart Valve Clinic

Hoag•Newport Beach, CA

2h•Onsite

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, catheterization studies 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. Advanced Heart Failure Clinic: In addition to the above, the Advanced Heart Failure Advanced Practice Provider (NP or PA) 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

Nurse practitioner license

Nice To Haves

PA (Physician Assistant) may also be considered for the Advanced Heart Failure Clinic role.

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.
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.
Dictating discharge summary.
Furnishing medications (non-narcotic) and durable medical equipment (DME).
Furnishing controlled substances III, IV, V with appropriate licensure/certification.
Furnishing controlled substances II with appropriate licensure/certification.
Ordering blood products, laboratory tests, radiological, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, catheterization studies and neurological studies, oxygen therapy, respiratory treatment, and pulmonary tests.
Performing drain and suture removal.
Ordering and administering medications and IV therapy with the ability to assess and adjust appropriate dosing.
Performing other duties as assigned.
Providing advanced clinical care to patients with complex heart failure across inpatient and outpatient settings, working closely with cardiologists, surgeons, and the multidisciplinary team.