Nurse Practitioner - Endocrinology - South Pasadena

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Position Summary

Delivers independent direct medical management for a defined population in a defined service line, according to standardized procedures and in collaboration with a physician advisor. S/he will provide care within scope of license in collaboration with physician. Professional practice as a health team member is defined by departmental policies with institutional approval. Emphasis is placed on health promotion and patient education, combining the qualities of both nursing and medicine. Act as a patient advocate in all ethical and legal aspects.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Utilize the City of Hope nursing process in clinical practice.
• Assume responsibility for independent, direct medical management of a defined patient population, according to standardized procedures and in collaboration with a physician advisor or supervising physician.
• Perform physical examinations applying the medical model and nursing process to patient care problems that require medical intervention and skill. Strives to maintain consistency of quality patient care.
• Maintain open lines of communication with the physician and multidisciplinary health team regarding patient information.
• Under supervision of a physician advisor, perform initial and interval physical assessment for evaluation of patient progress, applying techniques of observation, inspection, auscultation, palpation and percussion to determine plan of care.
• Discriminate between normal and abnormal findings, consulting with physician advisor/supervising physician when indicated, evaluate, diagnose and manage certain illnesses and conditions, order appropriate laboratory studies, identify appropriate pharmacologic agents and non-pharmacologic interventions, refer or consult with other physicians within City of Hope Medical Center.

Your qualifications should include:

Master's Degree as Nurse Practitioner

Three years oncology clinical experience

Current California RN license

California NP License

California NP Furnishing License within 6 months of hire

DEA within 6 months of hire

National NP Board Certification through accrediting body

Basic Life Support, CPR card through American Heart Association

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