APN - Surgical Nurse Practitioner (Vascular Surgery)

Position Summary:     Serve as health care provider to Vascular Surgical patients primarily in outpatient and office setting. Performs evaluations on acute and chronically patients. Coordinates the care of patients in need of assistance both prior to and after visits.

Primary job duties include clinical responsibilities, patient collaborator responsibilities, patient resource responsibilities and communication responsibilities.

Outpatient clinical responsibilities include evaluation and management of patients in the Outpatient Vascular Surgery Clinic, Pre admission Testing (PAT) evaluation of patients in preparation for surgery.

Inpatient Clinical Responsibilities include evaluation and management of new inpatient consults, evaluation and management of pre-op and post op vascular surgery inpatients and discharge process for vascular surgery inpatients and same day patients.

Experience

Required

Preferred: 3-5 years nursing experience working in an intensive care unit and CV post-surgical management background preferred.

Education

Required: Master’s degree or greater. Graduate from an ANA accredited School of Nursing

License and Credentials

Required: New Jersey License as a Registered Nurse and Certification as an Advanced Practice Nurse through a specialty association, with prescriptive authority.  Current CDS and DEA required within 6-months of employment.

Approval of credentials and clinical privileges per Center procedure.

Skills

Required: Maintain required continuing education credits, maintain current CPR and ACLS certification, and completes required education for nurse practitioner re-certification of 20 hours of category 1 contact hours/year.  50% of the overall credits per 5 years must be from an approved ANCC provider. Computer proficiency.

Bi-Weekly Hours: 80 (10 hour shifts)

Work Schedule: M - F

The starting salary range for this position is $128,000 to $155,000

When determining a team members base rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e. g., years of recent relevant experience, education, credentials, and internal equity).

At Deborah, healthcare is still about caring... for patients and team members.

That is why we offer an outstanding benefits package, which includes healthcare coverage for team members in regularly budgeted positions of at least 30 hours per week. The benefits package also includes generous paid time-off, 401K matching contribution, tuition assistance, short and long term disability benefits, life insurance, meal discount, dependent care subsidy, adoption assistance and free parking.