FACILITY INFORMATION
Do you love the outdoors?
Do you love wide-open spaces and the mountains?
Do you love snow skiing, water skiing, boating, hiking, backpacking and all other recreational activities?
Do you love wine tasting and the arts?
Do you want to live where others come to vacation?
Then come join the team at Mark Twain St. Joseph's Hospital. We're located in San Andreas, California in the beautiful foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Yet, we are within an easy drive to Sacramento, Stockton, and Modesto and just three hours away is the ocean. You can ski in the morning and swim in the ocean in the late afternoon.
If you want to work for a hospital with a family atmosphere where employees truly care about one another than this is the place for you.
To learn more about beautiful Calaveras County, go to the Visitor's Center's web page at gocalaveras.com.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Standard Hours: Exempt
Position Requirements:
Education: Nurse Practitioner registration with the State of California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN). Current registered nurse licensure by California BRN. National certification preferred. Current CPR.
Experience: Preferably two years of primary care clinical nursing experience.
Skills: Professional and extensive knowledge of physical assessment, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and management of acute and chronic problems. Substantial interpersonal skills necessary to instruct patients and their families as needed and to collaborate with health team members. Ability to work quickly and independently. (Independent is defined as independent of physician approval.)
Work Conditions: Walking, standing, pushing, pulling and lifting in patient care areas. Able to do work in spite of frequent interruptions. Ability to read work product of others, computer/monitor screens, computer printouts. High exposure to communicable diseases and blood borne pathogens, rare exposure to toxic substances such as radiation, nuclear isotopes, chemotherapeutic agents. Performs mathematical calculations. High level of concentration and attention to detail. Ability to work with a team, prioritize work and make decisions regarding patient care, implements nursing actions independently, interacts appropriately with others. Computer terminal work.
Position Summary:
The nurse practitioner is a professional registered nurse with advanced education and training in the primary care of adult and pediatric populations. The nurse practitioner is responsible for providing medical care to patients under the medical supervision of the Clinic Medical Director/designee. The nurse practitioner is also directed by standardized protocols and procedures which are appropriate to patient age. This position is credentialed through the Medical Staff. There is ongoing collaboration with the Mark Twain St. Joseph?s Hospital Medical Staff and other specialists in the area. Reports to the supervising physician for all medical concerns and to the Director of Patient Care Services for others.
