Job Title: Advanced Practice Nurse
Location: Barnabas Health Medical Group
Department Name: Roselle Park Medical Associates
Req #: 0000250567
Status: Salaried
Shift: Day
Pay Range: $125,000.00 - $195,000.00 per year
Pay Transparency:
The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.
The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.
Job Overview:
The Nurse Practitioner will work one day per week seeing patients in-office at Roselle Park Medical Associates, with the potential for afternoon home visits as needed for established home -patients within the area.
The remaining four days will be spent providing care in a sub-acute nursing home setting.
The position includes on-call responsibilities every fifth week, covering after-hours of 5:00 PM to 9:00 AM, Monday through Friday, and all day on weekends.
How to Apply:
If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity or would like to apply, please contact Francesca Badalamenti, APP Recruiter, at Francesca.Badalamenti@rwjbh.org
Requirements:
- APN License
- RN License
- NP Certiciation
- BLS and ACLS
- CDS and DEA
Schedule:
- Full Time
- Days
- 1 day in the office and 4 days at external facilities
Essential Functions:
- Rounds regularly at one to two subacute care facilities
- Performs transitional care visits for patients discharged from subacute/nursing home facilities
- Conducts home visits as part of ongoing patient care
- Preferred background or strong interest in palliative care
- Completes POLST (Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) forms
- Collaborates closely with physicians within the practice to coordinate and align patient care
- Performs comprehensive initial and episodic health assessments; in order to identify existing or potential health problems
- Initiates and implements an individualized nursing and medical plan of care in collaboration with members of interdisciplinary team
- Initiates appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic, medical and nursing actions in conjunction with physician
- Provides follow-up care including acute and routine examinations
- Assesses progress, identify problems, initiate preventive measures, recognize emergent problems, initiate proper care in collaboration with physician
- Monitors and adjusts patients medication according to protocol or medical plan of care
- Implements nutritional therapies, as appropriate
- Triages patient problem calls which requires medical attention
- Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic procedures
- Recognizes normal and abnormal laboratory findings and the pathology involved
- Documents information in patients charts following documentation standards
- Provides health education to the patient and family (e,g, management of side effects, anticipatory teachings)
- Manages medical emergencies as indicated, and according to standing orders
- Provides monitoring and continuity of care between health care settings
- Provides patient and family counseling and reassurance in regard to psychological and or psychosocial issues
- Initiates proper referrals to private or community agencies
- Acts as a resource and teacher for other members of the health care team
- Shares knowledge and expertise with staff
- Collaborates with the nursing and medical staff at partner and affiliate sites to coordinate continuity of care
- Evaluates the quality of care as well as the quality of life for patients through assessment of patient response and recommend interventions, as indicated