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Location: Santa Clara, CA
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<tr><td valign="top" width="450"><b>Title: Nurse Practitioner II [# 110500]Location: Santa Clara, CAProvide RNP care under MD supervision, triage, histories, physical assessment, crisis management and follow-up.Essential Functions:DIRECT PATIENT CARE Performs:Initial and ongoing medical, functional, and psychosocial assessments of patients and families on a timely, appropriate basis.Discusses patient needs and desires with the patient and family, and uses them as a factor in the life care path, interventions, and treatment.Participates in the development of the life care path and clinical maps (paths) for patients based on patient assessment and team conferences, and ensures effectiveimplementation.Provides direct patient care and services; including but not limited to: medications, including furnishing, treatments, patient education, and appropriate follow-up/referral.Monitors the patient''s progress, as needed and as appropriate.Documents patient care in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.Shares responsibility for telephone triage for all Behavioral Health Clinic patients.Provides crisis intervention, as needed.Indentifies and coordinates the learning needs of patients and families.Acts as a patient/family/caregiver advocate.Establishes priorities for patient care based on essential patient needs and available resources of personnel, equipment, and supplies.Evaluates effectiveness of care given by all team members.CARE COORDINATION:Reviews patient charts to assist in the patient selection process.Collects, enters, and uses data from past/current utilization, the medical record, and the patient and family to help determine patient care needs; evaluates and makesdecisions based on this data.Identifies gaps in the health care delivery system and ensures the patient and family receive necessary services.Comprehensively documents all patient and family activity as it applies to the patient''s overall health, safety, and emotional well-being.Participates actively in all team conferences related to the nurse practitioners assigned patient load.PROGRAM COORDINATION:Identifies, integrates and coordinates Kaiser Permanente and community health care resources and services for patients and their families/caregivers.Participates in educational opportunities to enhance learning for self and others.Acts as a consultant/resource to medical center staff.Develop, review, and update policies and procedures, protocols, and care paths.Participate in quality assurance and improvement.Responsible for other duties, as indicated by either the physician or the person''s direct supervisor.Supervise the work of the Medical Assistant, as appropriate.Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (KP''s code of conduct) by maintaining confidentiality, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable Federal and State laws and regulations, accreditation and licensure requirements, and KP policies and procedures.In addition to defined technical requirements, accountable for consistently demonstratingservice behaviors and principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente Service Quality Credo,the KP Mission as well as specific departmental/organizational initiatives. Also accountablefor consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary toprovide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and topurchasers, contracted providers and vendors.Qualifications:Basic Qualifications:- High School Diploma/GED.- Graduate of accredited Nurse Practitioner Program.- Master''s degree in Nursing required.- Furnishing license required.- Current California RNP license required.- BCLS certification required.- IV certification.- Must have a UPIN or be UPIN eligible which requires a Masters Degree in Nursing and current National Certification from one of the followingorganizations: American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; American Nurses Credentialin

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