Per Diem RN-Nurse Practitioner-Hospice

apartment Kaweah Health location_onVisalia, CA, US

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.

Benefits Eligible

Not Benefits Eligible

Work Shift

Day - 8 Hour or less Shift (United States of America)

Department

7310 HospiceThe Nurse Practitioner is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of patients/families, nurses and the healthcare system by positively influencing patient outcomes utilizing evidence based practice and promoting excellent bedside practice through collaboration, leadership and mentoring.

QUALIFICATIONS

License /Certification

Required:

CA Nurse Practitioner (NP) and CA Nurse Practitioner Furnishing Number

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration

CA RN license

BLS

Current California Drivers License and current proof of automobile insurance policy and California state required minimum coverage levels.

Preferred: Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (ACHPN).

Education
Preferred: MSN or DNP

Experience
Required: Two or more years of palliative care experience with patients at end of life.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Must complete credentialing through Medical Staff Interdisciplinary Practice Committee.
Excellent written and oral communication skills and effective interpersonal relationships.
Critical thinking, creative thinking, and creative skill in problem solving.
Computer literate.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential

Uses knowledge and assessments of patients to design, implement and evaluate plans of patient care related to specialty area. Uses advanced theoretical and empirical knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and health assessment:

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. Follows up on all abnormal findings.

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, including appropriate patient status and level of care.

Documents and orders the necessary components to meet CMS, core measure and Value-Based purchasing requirements.

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.

Serves as a change agent in health care settings by developing high-quality health care standards, assisting in the implementation of standards, order sets, clinical pathways, and facilitating goal setting while measuring achievements, and evaluating outcomes.

Advances nursing practice through innovative evidence-based interventions, best-practice guidelines, and modification of professional standards and organizational policies that direct the care of nursing personnel and other providers of healthcare to improve outcomes. Evaluates the standards of clinical practice with all appropriate disciplines in the specialty area;

Uses clinical inquiry and research in an advanced specialty area of practice.

Promotes use and understanding of evidence based practice.

Reviews standards of practice and national guidelines for specialty area to determine appropriateness and to reflect current nursing clinical practice.

Leads multidisciplinary groups to facilitate collaboration with other disciplines in the attainment of outcomes across the continuum of care.

Performs consultative functions.

Provides clinical expertise and makes recommendations to physicians, other health care providers, patients, and health care organizations.

Attends appropriate Medical staff committees.

Completes and maintains appropriate procedural training for the population being served (i.e. Cardiac Stress Testing).

Understands the Hospice Conditions of Participation related to Nurse Practitioner regulations.

Performs timely Hospice face-to-face visits including timely, accurate documentation.

Additional

Demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of:

Joint Commission standards

California's Nursing Practice Act

Applicable sections of California Title 22 and 16 and all other applicable regulations

Applicable Federal guidelines and regulations including HIPAA

American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Practice

Policies and procedures for specialty area

National standards for specialty area.

Demonstrates professional citizenship and fiscal responsibility in the healthcare system by focusing on health policy and/or resource management to ensure quality, cost-effective outcomes of nursing care.

Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and services appropriate to the population served on the assigned unit or work area. Knowledgeable of growth and development for all patient/family cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, and age specific needs. Able to effectively communicate and care for patient and family as reflected in the Plan for Provision of Care.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Pay Range

$73.59 -$110.39

If you want to use your talents alongside people who face each day with courage and purpose, in an environment that empowers you to do your absolute best, this is where you belong.

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