What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Practitioner position at Sun Mar Health Care?
We’re a skilled nursing facility looking for dynamic associates to join our clinical team and provide our guests with a care experience that will change their lives! Whether you are just starting your career or have years of experience, and you would like to provide a unique and memorable experience to our guests, we want to meet you!
We are looking for a Nurse Practitioner for a busy dynamic geriatric practice in Anaheim.
The Nurse Practitioner is responsible for managing patient care and treatment in collaboration with the physician at the facility.
Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Management of acute and chronic disease conditions.
- Orders, interprets and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s clinical problems and health care needs.
- Provides member education on topics such as chronic and acute conditions, self-care, sick-day plans, medication and compliance
- Participates in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss and develop the most appropriate care plans possible based on patient needs.
- Ongoing physician case discussion and collaboration of complex care cases
- Prescribes medication or other forms of treatment.
- Utilizes a variety of platforms to provide patient care, including telehealth, face-to-face visits, in home or field visitations.
- Maintains privileges in multiple Nursing Homes
- Consults supervising attending as needed
- Documents patient visits electronically
- Participates in documentation and other quality improvement programs
- Will reviews, approves, and modifies admission orders
- Creates a detailed admit note for each admission within 24 hours of patient admission to SNF, including medication reconciliation
- Initiates/documents Advanced Directives/POLST form
- Determines if Health Care Proxy status is correct and invoke if appropriate
- Assists case management in the evaluation of selected long-term care patients
- Follows “new” long term patients every 30 days
- Assists the attending physician with management for complex long-term patients
- Develops a discharge plan utilizing input from case management and rehab.
- Identifies barriers to discharge
- Creates a detailed discharge summary for each admission on all patients, including medication reconciliation, and sends to the PCP at the time of SNF discharge