Nurse Practitioner - Integrative Care

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Nurse Practitioner

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. 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner to join our Integrative Care team in Irvine, CA. We are searching for candidates with Palliative Care or Oncology experience. If you have a passion to care for oncology patients, we encourage you to apply for this role.

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.
  • Develop and follow protocols/standardized procedures for practice for Nurse Practitioners in the department.
  • Assist in developing methods and systems for provision of medical care and overall department operations.
  • Maintain open lines of communication with the physician and multidisciplinary health team regarding patient information.
  • Develop and implement patient education activities; provides education and counseling to patients.  
  • Develop and participate in performance improvement activities to evaluate the program's effectiveness in meeting patient care and departmental needs.
  • Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reviewing current literature, attending in-service meetings, and workshops. 

Your qualifications should include:

  • Master's Degree, or Doctorate Degree as Nurse Practitioner
  • Three years clinical experience

Required Certification/Licensure:

  • 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 (BLS), CPR card through American Heart Association
  • ACLS and PALS
    “City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria:  work experience, qualifications, and work location.”

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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