Nurse Practitioner - Internal Medicine

Overview

$5,000 Sign-On bonus for external candidates

The Hospitalist Nurse is a registered nurse who collaborates with the hospital care team and floor staff to coordinate and manage the process of patient care from the point of admission through discharge and hand-off to their primary care provider.

Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Requires bedside marketing to educate patients & their families on what the role of the Hospitalist Program is. At the same time, verifies primary care provider and determines any barriers to discharge & set expectations for hospital stay.

• Actively participates in morning report/hand-off and can serve in the role of census coordinator.

• Collaborates with hospital care team to ensure that all current labs, test results, consults, orders, etc. are carried out in a timely fashion.

• Initiates proactive planning and coordination of the patient's plan for the day and plan for the stay with the rest of the team.

• Participates actively in quality improvement initiatives; reviews core measure indicators and ensures that the team goals are being met.

• Assess with patients & their family members that their needs are being met & collaborates to set up follow-up needs upon discharge

• Obtain medical records & assists with medication reconciliation.

• Required to occasionally set-up care team meetings with both physicians and families about ongoing hospital care, safe discharge plan & disposition

• Serve as continuity for patients during physician hand-offs

• Collaborates with physician and care coordinators regarding care delays

Care Coordination

• Resolves post-discharge issues needing follow-up & provide post-discharge homecoming calls to follow-up with high-risk patients.

• Educates patients at the bedside and over the phone; needs to recognize limits of when to collaborate with a physician regarding the patients care either in the hospital or during a homecoming call.

• Fill out documents for both patients and family as needed regarding hospital stay.

• F/u on lab and other pending items post discharge.

• Coordinate care with patient until patient has been seen by established or new pcp provider.

Qualifications

Education: Graduate of an accredited program for Registered Nurses.

Experience: 3-5 years of nursing experience preferred.

License(s)/Certification(s): Current license to practice nursing in the State of Iowa/Illinois for Registered Nurse. BLS certification.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to use the computer effectively in order to navigate several electronic programs related to patient care.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work as a team member.

• Ability to understand and apply guidelines, policies and procedures.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Other: Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.

Lifting Requirements: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects

• Area of Interest: Nursing;

• FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.0;

• Department: Hospitalists- Rock Island;

• Shift: 40;

• Job ID: 152206;