Nurse Practitioner - Stroke Team

Work Location:
Santa Monica, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Fully On-Site

Work Schedule

3 - 12 hour shifts a week, 7 days a week, days, nights, weekends and holidays: 7a-7:30p or 7p-7:30a

Posted Date

06/01/2026

Salary Range: $93.81 - 133.97 Hourly

Employment Type

Duration

indefinite

Job #

30920

The Stroke Nurse Practitioner provides comprehensive inpatient stroke and neurologic care at UCLA Santa Monica Hospital as part of a 24/7 stroke program supporting emergency, inpatient, and critical care services. The APP functions as an integral member of the multidisciplinary stroke team and participates in rapid evaluation and management of patients presenting with acute stroke and neurologic emergencies.

This role includes participation in around the clock stroke coverage, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays. The Stroke APP collaborates closely with neurology attendings, emergency medicine physicians, nursing, pharmacy, rehabilitation services, radiology, and hospital operations to support timely, evidence based stroke care and optimize patient outcomes.

• CA RN and CA NP License - required
• State of California NP, State of CA NP Furnishing with Schedule II, National Certification (i.e. ANCC) - required
• MSN or DNP in NP Specialty (AG-AC NP/Adult - Gero Acute Care NP)
• NPI #, DEA #
• 1 year neurology experience as a NP - required
• BLS and ACLS certification from AHA or ARC
• Previous Stroke Team experience - strongly preferred
• NIHSS Certification - required, SCRN - preferred
• Ability to utilize excel, word and other software program - required
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and collaborative working relationships with administrative, clinical and academic personnel - required
• Skill in working independently and following through with minimum direction - required
• Ability to set priorities - required
• Demonstrate writing skills to compose logical, detailed and grammatically correct correspondence - required
• Document patient care in a concise and comprehensive manner - required

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an 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; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer. Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.