Title: Nurse Practitioner
Location: Chico, CA 95926
Job Type: Permanent
Schedule: Days, Full Time
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a Registered Nurse who possesses additional clinical and didactic education to function at an advanced level of nursing practice. They will be clinically competent in physical diagnosis, psychosocial assessment and management of health-illness needs to provide direct patient care and education to patients, families, students, and nursing staff. The NP consistently demonstrates the core values and serves as a role model to other employees.
EDUCATION / TRAINING / EXPERIENCE:
Minimum:
- Graduate of a Family Nurse Practitioner program
- Recent experience appropriate to the clinical area where practice will occur, such as urgent care, family practice, rural health care, walk-in medical care, occupational medicine. New graduates will be considered
- Desired:
- Bilingual in Spanish desirable: Occupational Health Center, Walk-in Clinics, Primary Care Practice
- One-year experience evaluation & treatment in workers' compensation/injured worker episodic care setting, occupational and environmental health clinic, and /or employee health nurse in a medical or industrial facility: Occupational Health
LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS:
- Current licensure with the California Board of Registered Nursing
- Current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner with the California Board of Registered Nursing
- Current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner Furnisher with the California Board of Registered Nursing
- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) number or proof of application
- Meets Centers for MediCal and Medicaid Services (CMS) criteria to bill Medicare
- Current CPR recognition
- Current ACLS recognition (within 6 months of hire)
- Current PALS recognition (within 1 year of hire) (Employees who were classified as Nurse Practitioners for Prompt Care prior to February 2018 AND who will not be cross-trained to the Emergency Department will be grandfathered in without this requirement.)
- Department of Transportation (DOT) Medical Examiner Certification (within one year of hire)Position Urgency: Normal