RN-Nurse Practitioner

Kaweah Health Care District • Visalia, CA

223d • $70 - $105

About The Position

Kaweah Health is a publicly owned, community healthcare organization that provides comprehensive health services to the greater Visalia area in central California. With more than 5,000 employees, Kaweah Health provides state-of-the-art medicine and high-quality preventive services in our acute care hospital, specialized health centers and clinics. Our eight-campus healthcare district has 613 beds and offers comprehensive health services across a broad continuum of care. It takes a special person to work for Kaweah Health. We serve a region where the needs are great, which makes the rewards even greater. Every day, we care for people facing unique challenges and in need of healing. Throughout it all, our focus is to make a difference, and we do - in the health of our patients, our loved ones, and our community.

Requirements

• CA Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Nurse Practitioner Furnishing Number
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration
• CA RN license
• BLS
• One year of recent RN specialty experience in an adult, critical care, or medical-surgical setting.

Nice To Haves

• National Nurse Practitioner certification from American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) or American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
• MSN or DNP
• One year of recent practice as a Nurse Practitioner with an emphasis in adult assessment and management of medical and/or surgical conditions.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for enhancing Patient Throughput throughout the Medical Center and Chronic Disease Management Clinic.
• Uses knowledge and assessments of patients to design, implement and evaluate plans of patient care related to specialty area.
• Manages populations with disease states and non-disease based etiologies to improve and to promote health care outcomes.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team on most complex patients within specialty area on a consistent basis.
• Focuses on population health management across the care continuum.
• Collaborates between the medical staff, nursing unit and ancillary departments to facilitate problem-solving.
• Designs, implements, and evaluates innovative individual and/or population-based programs of care to achieve high quality, cost-effective outcomes.
• Provides relevant patient instruction and education.
• Coordinates patient care including ordering, interpreting, and evaluating laboratory tests and radiographic studies to expedite treatment.
• Orders transfers within the hospital or to other facilities to the appropriate level of care.
• Consults with medical staff, medical residents, nursing, case management, social work and clinical documentation staff as needed to meet documentation and throughput goals.
• Completes history and physical or medical screening exam, discharge summary/instructions and provides patient prescriptions as indicated to enhance throughput.
• Documents the necessary components in the medical record to meet documentation standards for the assigned DRG or APR-DRG.
• Serves as a leader/consultant/mentor/change agent in advancing the practice of nursing among other nurses and across organizations to achieve outcomes.
• Utilizes direct clinical practice to consult, educate, coach, and mentor staff nurses in achieving optimum patient outcomes.
• Leads multidisciplinary groups to facilitate collaboration with other disciplines in the attainment of outcomes across the continuum of care.

Benefits

• Full-Time Benefit Eligible
• Day - 10 Hour Shift

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees