Nurse Practitioner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Requires an MS in Nursing and minimum of 2 years of related experience with clinical emphasis for nurse practitioner; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• Active Nurse Practitioner Board Certification
• Current, unrestricted RN license and NP license in the state of California is required.
• Certification in a specialty or minimum of 1 year experience in the specialty area of nephrology.

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual communication skills in English and Spanish.
• Experience in either Primary Care or an Internal Medicine setting with adults and geriatric patient population.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes evidence-based clinical practice standards to provide direct clinical services for patients within prescribed guidelines and physician instructions.
• Acts independently to perform physical assessments, diagnostic functions, specialized risk assessments, and make critical decisions regarding a wide variety of health situations, including high risk and crisis situations.
• Acquires patient health histories and evaluates patient, performing physical examinations.
• Orders, interprets and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patients' clinical problems and health care needs.
• Discusses case with physician.
• Formulates and documents care plan.
• Prescribes medication, therapies and/or other forms of treatment.
• Evaluates the patient’s response to therapy.

Benefits

• This position is bonus eligible based on individual and company performance.