Advanced Practice Provider / Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Come work with a great team!  Signet Health manages the Behavioral Health Services for Medstar Washington Hospital Center and has an opening for a PRN Advanced Practice Provider (APRN), NP with Acute Care Experience.

**Nurse Practitioners who apply for this role must have Acute Care Experience.  

 Essential Functions of this position are:

• Perform H&P’s on newly admitted patients on behavioral health inpatient units and will follow through on other medical illnesses.  
• Participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning, as needed.
• Participate in agency-wide training programs and in-services.
• Provide quality and timely clinical documentation, per Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies’ requirements.
• Perform rotations throughout Washington Hospital Center.

Requirements/Qualifications

Qualifications Needed:

• Proficiency in interpersonal communication and interdisciplinary teamwork.
• Master's, postgraduate, or doctoral degree as an Advanced Practice Provider program accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) (formerly NLNAC | National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission).
• Eligible for Acute or Acute Adult Nurse Practitioner certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).  
• Have effective problem-solving skills and display excellent oral/written communication skills.  
• Flexibility adjusting to the needs of a fast-paced environment.

Compensation Information:

The Set hourly rate this position is: $112.50 per hour

Tour of Duty:

PRN, As Needed: 8-hour shifts

EOE

Hospital/Program Description

For more than a half a century, MedStar Washington Hospital Center has set the highest standard for health care—and reached and surpassed it year after year.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center is a not-for-profit, 926-bed academic medical center in the center of the nation’s capital—and every day, hundreds of people in the region depend on us for their care. In 2013 alone, the hospital opened its door for nearly 500,000 inpatient and outpatient visits by residents from throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

We are the busiest and largest hospital in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area—and serve as referral center and the central hub for the region’s most advanced acute medical care.

But we are much more. Our primary and secondary health services help our community’s residents get and stay healthy, and help to improve patients’ quality of life by managing chronic illness.

Our inpatient services, education and research programs, outpatient care and community outreach initiatives are all aimed at meeting today’s health care needs—and at leading the way to meet the future health needs of the nation.