Family Nurse Practitioner

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1906, Dignity Health - St. Elizabeth Community Hospital is a 76-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Red Bluff, California. Serving over 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III Trauma Center, heart care, cancer care, and a family birth center. Additionally, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center. It has been named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for two consecutive years, one of only 16 rural hospitals in the US to achieve this award.

One Community. One Mission. One California


Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Nurse Practitioner, the incumbent delivers services in a team based, patient-centered primary care clinic serving insured and uninsured children and adults with a special emphasis on care for persons who experience barriers to accessing care due to income, language, cultural and social barriers. The incumbent must be willing to work a flexible schedule when circumstances necessitate as well as participating in On-Call rotation with other clinic providers. The incumbent will report to the Director Rural Clinics.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Performs routine physical/psychosocial assessment to collect basic data: follows the written plan of care, standards, practice guidelines, utilizes pathways, which includes notifying physicians as appropriate
• Formulates a plan of care for individual needs, including patient population needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options)
• Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content. Integrates education during the delivery of patient care
• Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care to determine immediate priorities and to offer solutions for problems
• Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience
• Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict. Seeks counsel for resolution of conflict

• Provide team-based integrated and culturally respectful patient-centered care for a panel of patients consistent with
  medical best practices and the policies and procedures of the organization.
• Perform patient history taking, physical examination, diagnosis, develop and implement treatment plans and perform
  required procedures within scope of licensure, approved credentials and clinical best practice standards.
• Order diagnostic testing based on clinical findings and clinical best practice standards. Interpret results of diagnostic
  testing and implement and/or assure appropriate follow-up with the patient/family.
• Complete appropriate coding and update EMR documentation for each patient encounter consistent with clinic procedure.
  Record physical findings, and formulates plan and prognosis, based on patient's condition.
• Discuss case with physician and other health professionals to prepare comprehensive patient care plan. Submit health
  care plan and goals of individual patients for periodic review and evaluation by Medical Director. Prescribe new and
  medication refills or other forms of treatment such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic
  procedures
• Provide care and education focused on individual and family engagement and behavioral change, treatment compliance
  and health risk factor reduction. Provide age appropriate anticipatory guidance and counseling, wellness promotion and
  health education to clients and/or families, including: nutrition and exercise, health maintenance, safety, substance
  abuse (including use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs), emotional well-being, school and activities, behavior and development

Job Requirements

Required

• Nurse Practitioner - AANPCP, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire
• Drug Enforcement Administration-Control Sub Reg Cert: CA, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Preferred

• Masters Of Nursing Nurse Practitioner and 1-3 years Minimum of one (1) year of experience as a Nurse Practitioner in an outpatient primary care clinic, community health center, etc., upon hire