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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Posted Date
05/20/2025
Salary Range: $140200 - 331800 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
24508

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Advanced Practice Specialist (“APS”) demonstrates advanced expertise in evidence-based nursing and practice, and provides teaching, mentoring, consulting, leadership and systems improvement. The APS Enteral/Parenteral influences outcomes by providing expert consultation to care providers and implements improvements in health care delivery systems. The APS demonstrates a high degree of professional competence in a specialized field of Enteral/Parenteral nursing practice and utilizes advanced theoretical and empirical knowledge and a scientific approach to problem solving.  The APS establishes standards for patient care and evaluates interventions to improve care.  Emphasis on specific role components is dependent upon the patient population and the clinical and administrative functions/needs of the clinical settings, Center for Nursing Excellence, Department of Nursing and UCLA Health.


Salary: $140,200 - $331,800 Annually

Job Qualifications

- BLS: Required

- Current/Active CA RN License: Required

- Current/Active CA Nurse Practitioner and National Certification in area of specialty, or MSN: Required

- Masters degree in Nursing: Required

- Experience: 3-5 years specialty practice experience applicable to role: Required

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

  •  Ability to develop and monitor complex and comprehensive plans of care
  • Ability to provide direct patient care
  • Ability to develop, monitor and evaluate clinical protocols, standards of care, P/P and other documents related to patient care
  • Ability to assess educational needs of staff, patient and family
  • Ability to develop and implement educational programs
  • Ability to consult on a broad spectrum of professional nursing practice issues including but not limited to: nursing practice performance standards, program development, professional practice models, research utilization models, system change strategies and professional development
  • Ability to conduct and utilize research
  • Ability to apply principles of change theory and systems theory to implement innovative patient care practices system-wide
  • Ability to evaluate clinical and financial outcomes
  • Ability to mentor staff
 

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.