Nurse Practitioner

Description:

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.

Client Compass - Jamboree: In addition to the above the Client 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.


Job Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:
Adaptability Diversity
Technology & Equipment Skills Infection Control
Interpersonal Skills

Job Knowledge:
Oral/Written Communication Patient Documentation Patient Safety

Organization Behavioral Competencies
Business Acumen
Customer Satisfaction
Innovation
Trust & Accountability

Education and Experience:
Experience with senior wellness visits; chronic condition management and coding, quality care gap management required.
it will be outpatient setting, working alongside primary care providers across all our Orange County clinics.

Must have experience in coding and documentation .

At least 1-2 years of recent clinical experience as a Nurse Practitioner.

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.

Additional department specific requirements are as follows:

Breast Care: 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 or multilingual preferred.

Cardiac Admin: Experience in adult/geriatric cardiovascular care.
Experience in cardiovascular data collection preferred.

Emergency Dept: Experience in psychiatric/mental health.


Endoscopy/Surgical Center for Digestive Diseases:
Experience in adult/geriatric care, ambulatory, and/or inpatient care preferred.


Client Compass: 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.


HMG - Primary Care: Experience in Family or Internal Medicine and/or adolescent/adult/geriatric care preferred.

HMG - Urgent Care: 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.


HOI: Experience in Orthopedics and/or recent adult/geriatric acute care preferred.


Neuro/Oncology Clinic: Experience as a Nurse/NP in Adult Oncology/Neurology or equivalent education and experience.
Bilingual or multilingual and/or clinical trial experience preferred.


Neuroscience: 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.


Medical Imaging (Nuclear Medicine, Neuro-Interventional Radiology, etc.
):
Minimum 2 years of experience performing or assisting in invasive procedures performed with the utilization of advanced imaging.


Palliative Care: 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.


License Required:
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.


Infusion Centers: DEA license required within 90 days of position effective date

Certifications Required:
BLS required.
National board certification as Nurse Practitioner in area of specialty required (except Outpatient Oncology and Medical Imaging).

Additional department specific requirements are as follows:

Cardiac Administration: ACLS required.
DEA: DEA License, NPF: Nurse Practitioner Furnisher

Emergency Department: ACLS required.


Endoscopy/Surgical Center for Digestive Diseases: ACLS required.


HMG - Primary Care: ACLS required.


HMG - Urgent Care: National Certificate in area of specialty required.


Client Orthopedic Institute: Completion of an ECG course and testing or equivalency required.


Neuro/Oncology Clinic: ACLS required.
ONS certification preferred.


Neuroscience: ACLS required.


Nuclear Medicine: ACLS required.


Palliative Care: ACLS required.


Infusion Centers: ACLS required.
DEA: DEA License, NPF: Nurse Practitioner Furnisher

Solmar Retreat: BLS - AHA Basic Life Support.


Certifications Preferred:
Client Orthopedic Institute: Orthopedic Nurse Certification preferred.


Reports To: Supervisor, Manager, Director, or Executive Director over Functional area

As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or express, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.