Nurse Practitioner, Watsonville FM
Watsonville, CAFull-time$159–222K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Nurse Practitioner assesses, diagnoses, plans, and implements patient care in collaboration with a physician. The role provides direct care, education, and care transitions, and develops individualized interdisciplinary plans that account for patients’ broader needs. It also maintains collaborative relationships with patients, families, and providers and follows California-regulated procedures and protocols. Experience with children, families, adults, primary care, and integrated care is preferred; Spanish fluency and Epic experience are also preferred.
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We are so glad you are interested in joining Sutter Health!
Organization:
PAMF-Palo Alto Medical Foundation SCD
Position Overview:
Assesses, diagnoses, plans and implements the medical care of patients in collaboration with a physician. Functions within the full scope of licensure; accountable for the assessment, coordination delivery and evaluation of nursing care, including direct patient care, patient/family education and transitions of care. Delivers holistic and individualized care to all patients in assigned area. Develops, implements, manages an optimal interdisciplinary plan of care that incorporates psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic, and life-style factors. Fosters and maintains collaborative relationships between patients, their family/support group, physicians, and other healthcare providers through timely and effective communications. Adheres to hospital polices, industry standards, best practices, and applicable laws/regulations and codes to promote a quality, highly reliable patient experience. Engages in continuous growth and development in professional practice. Follows ambulatory care and inpatient standardized procedures, protocols, policy and procedures regulated by the State of California.
Job Description :
EDUCATION
Master's: Masters Degree in Nursing or equivalent education/experience
CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE
NP-Nurse Practitioner
NFP-Nurse Practitioner Furnishing
CSRC- Controlled Substance Registered Certification (DEA)
ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center or AANP American Academy of Nurse Practitioner
BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AS TYPICALLY ACQUIRED:
The ideal candidate will have experience working with children, adolescents, families, and adults of all ages—as well as in working within primary care settings and in using an integrated care approach. Fluency in Spanish is strongly preferred. Experience using Epic is also preferred.
Job Shift:
Days
Schedule:
Full Time
Days of the Week:
Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Weekend Requirements:
None
Benefits:
Yes
Unions:
Yes
Position Status:
Exempt
Weekly Hours:
32
Employee Status:
Regular
Employees of Sutter Health and its entities may handle hazardous drugs in the course of their work, including patient care, which requires them to manage, store, prepare, receive, unpack, transport, dispose of, or administer drugs identified as hazardous or potentially hazardous by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and in accordance with the USP 800 guidelines.
Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.
Pay Range is $158,629.12 to $222,077.44 / annual salary
The posted pay range is based on the position's primary work location. Candidates who reside and work outside of that location may be subject to a different pay range based on their work location. Candidate starting salaries consider multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health’s comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.
How this job compares
Set against the 9,989 open Nurse Practitioner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$159–222K/yr
- California median$149–200K/yr176 salary ranges
- US median$110–164K/yr3,749 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $190K, is 11% above the California median midpoint ($171K) — in the middle half of Nurse Practitioner salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 388 open Nurse Practitioner jobs in California and 9,989 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health (this employer)42 open
- Kaiser Permanente29 open
- Providence23 open
- Experience
- Nurse Practitioner postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (2,913 postings).
- Education
- 3,539 of the 9,989 open Nurse Practitioner jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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