Nurse Practitioner - San Francisco, United States - St Marys Medical Center
Description
Overview
St. Mary's Medical Center has been caring for the health of San Franciscans since 1857 when it was founded by eight Sisters of Mercy from Ireland. It is an accredited not-for-profit hospital located across the street from Golden Gate Park. It is a full-service acute care facility with more than 575 physicians and 1100 employees who provide high-quality and affordable health care services to the Bay Area community.
Home to advanced medical practices such as the nation's first digital cardiac catheterization laboratory innovating orthopedic and spine surgery and comprehensive rehabilitation and a state-of-the-art cancer center.
St.Mary's Medical Center is one of San Francisco's leading hospitals offering patients a full range of outpatient and inpatient services delivered with the human touch.
Strategies and business development are centered on Oncology Services Cardiac Services and Orthopedics.Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- The NP may provide counseling and education to patients in the inpatient or outpatient setting.
- The NP may provide daily care in the hospital including writing progress notes and entering orders under a supervising physician agreement and per privileges granted by the medical staff.
- The NP may perform procedures within the approved scope of practice for the NP. Notes must be authenticated per guidelines.
- The NP may complete progress notes and dictate a discharge summary of the hospital episode. This document must be authenticated by a supervising physician. Patients are only discharged from the Hospital by the order of the attending physician after the attending physician has personally evaluated and documented the patient's status and suitability for discharge.
- The NP may participate in afterhours telephone coverage of patients (inpatient and outpatient) with available physician supervision and within the scope of a supervising physician agreement.
- The NP will collaborate on quality improvement initiatives involving patients including the helping to maintain a patient database for outcomes tracking and reporting.
- LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 35 years combined experience in healthcare industry
- Master's in Nursing from an accredited program for Nurse Practitioners.
- Current license in the State of California as a RN. Certified as a nurse practitioner.
Pay Range
$ /hour
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