To provide direct care to patients.
Essential Functions:
- Conducts telephone call backs to patients requiring follow-up care
- Evaluates emergency situations & initiates appropriate interventions
- Health teaching & health counseling to patients &/or their families
- Collaborates effectively w/all members of the care team
- Maintains clinical competence through attending staff development programs, is responsible for maintaining professional certification
- Builds rapport & cooperative relationships with members/patients
- Participates in planning for the delivery of clinical service
- Actively seeks information to understand member/patient circumstances, problems, expectations & needs
- Participates in the peer review process
- Participates in training of students
- Carries out clinical & administrative procedures that may be promulgated by the Health Plan
- Participates in monitoring quality of care according to professional standards & established criteria
- Facilitates the coordination & integration of care between health care services; manages populations of patients to ensure appropriate utilization of health care resources.
- Review & monitor therapy & treatment patient plans
- Performs other related duties as directed
- Executing delegated medical functions which deliver aspects of care that implement & are consistent with the medical plan as prescribed by a licensed or otherwise legally authorized physician or person acting under the physician's delegated authority
Nurse Practitioner
(Portions adopted from Colorado State Nurse Practice Act CRS 12-38-103)
- Collects subjective/objective data
- Analyzes, reports & records data
- Prioritizes patient's needs
- Triages patients either in person or via telephone
- Evaluating health status through the collection & assessment of health data
- Examines & treats patients, orders & interprets diagnostic tests & makes diagnosis
- Practices w/in scope of practice perimeters as inferred by licensure, standard nursing practice, knowledge, skill level, sound clinical judgment, & KP guidelines
- Accurately documents patient data, actions or interventions, responses, & plans for care/follow-up according to guidelines &/or standard nursing practice
- Providing therapy & treatment that is supportive &restorative to life & wellbeing either directly to the patient or indirectly through consultation with, delegation to (per CO SBON rules & regulations for delegation), supervision/teaching others
- APN specializing in surgery may provide preop & post-op care. As first or second assistants during major surgery
- Refers to medical or community agencies per KP guidelines those patients who need further treatment, evaluation, or assistance
- Leads health care team by influence & role modeling integrated effective nursing practice, exemplary service, innovation & providing outstanding support for physician practices
- Collaborates w/articulated plan physician, & follows Health Plan policy around annual chart review & discussion between APN & physician
- Participates & cooperates w/colleagues both other APNs & Physicians in evaluating professional qualifications
- In addition to defined technical requirements, accountable for consistently demonstrating service behaviors & principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission as well as specific departmental/organizational initiatives
- Also accountable for consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, & behaviors necessary to provide superior & culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, & to purchasers, contracted providers & vendors
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- BLS required within 90 days of employment and must be maintained as current
- National Provider Identifier (NPI) and Taxonomy code required at time of hire
- DEA Registration (or actively working to obtain this registration if new graduate)
- For positions requiring the administration of procedural sedation, ACLS certification and procedural sedation competency required within 90 days of hire
- Must obtain and maintain credentialing and/or privileges both internally and externally by the affiliated hospital. Ongoing credentialing required
Nurse Practitioner
- Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Colorado. BLS required within 90 days of employment and must be maintained as current.
- Must be a graduate of an RN program that meets Colorado State Board of Nursing curriculum requirements
- Listed on the Advanced Practice Registry and is in compliance with those requirements
- Masters Degree in Nursing
- Graduation from a NLN accredited Nurse Practitioner program
- Prescriptive authority required or in progress. Must be obtained within 2 years of hire date if a newer graduate.
- For positions in Pediatrics or a position as family nurse practitioner in a pediatric setting, education and certification required for Pediatric nurse practitioner or Family Nurse Practitioner for a Pediatric setting,
Physician Assistant
- Bachelor's degree required
- Graduation from an program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
- Current and on-going certification by the National Commission for Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of1 year of pediatricexperience, spanish speaking a plus.
This position is 100% Pediatrics
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.