Nurse Practitioner 2

Responsibilities

• Evaluates and manages patients independently or collaboratively.
• Performs procedures granted via privileges or standardized procedures.
• Identifies patients with acute decompensation or failure and responds to the hospital plan of care.
• Initiates consultations as indicated.
• Documents independent assessment findings and recommends appropriate treatments.
• Participates in service rounds and patient evaluation and treatment planning.
• Reviews lab tests, x-rays, and other diagnostic tests, and initiates appropriate team plans.
• Evaluates complex cases, establishes individualized plans of care for disposition to a lower level of care.
• Interprets and acts upon completed tests, procedures, and radiographic studies.
• Completes clinically relevant paperwork and EHR documentation, including ordering medications, completing episodic care notes and discharge summaries.
• Effectively communicates findings, treatment options, and care plans with patients and their families.
• Makes first-assistance in the operating room if privileged to do so through OMAG after completing the required certification and proctoring.
• Marks patients for discharge, sets parameters and guidelines for the continuum of care, and completes discharge summaries.
• Carefully coordinates care throughout the continuum including hospital admission, care coordination with staff and consulting services, and hospital discharge planning.
• Coordinates episodic care and determines timing of routine clinic follow up.
• Participates in huddles with clinic/hospital staff and anticipates patients who require close management or intervention.
• Consults with nursing staff on plan and implementation of individualized nursing care plans.
• Independently provides case summaries for disability, insurance agencies, workers compensation, work releases, and medical supply agencies.
• Formulates and implements protocols to improve quality and efficiency and control waste in the clinical specialty.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a California Board of Registered Nursing approved or verified school of nursing with a master’s degree in nursing or a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).
• Four (4) years as a Nurse Practitioner in Cardiology, MCS, or Advanced Heart Failure.
• Two (2) years managing mechanical circulatory support patients.
• Three (3) years critical care nursing experience managing all MCS devices as a : impella, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), left ventricular assist device (LVAD).