The Nurse Practitioneris responsible for providing high-quality, patient-centered primary and/or specialty care through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients across the lifespan. They will also play a key role in patient education, health promotion, disease prevention, and the accurate documentation of care in accordance with clinical, regulatory, and organizational standards.
Reports to:Chief Medical Officer
Responsibilities:
Serve as a role model and advocate in the delivery of compassionate, comprehensive care to patients and their families.
Utilize expert knowledge, skills, and abilities to strengthen clinical practice in their specialty throughout the organization.
Provide expert nursing care to selected patient population.
Evaluate patient outcomes and revise plans of care accordingly.
Participate in the development and evaluation of patient and family education materials.
Promote the professional development of all nurses through specialty training and education.
Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and ability needed to ensure care appropriate to the age and needs of the population served.
Facilitate research interpretation and clinical studies to advance clinical practice.
Gather pertinent information systematically and skillfully from all sources: history, diagnostic tests, comprehensive physical examination, and psychosocial assessment.
Provide total comprehensive care (supervised by a Physician) to selected clients who satisfy the criteria as outlined in the description of service. Responsible for ante-partum, intra-partum, and inter-conceptual care of these selected clients.
Differentiate normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
Assess client and family adaptation coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
Accurately interpret diagnostic test.
Communicate with the medical staff of any abnormalities or complications. This consultation may result in co-management or referral of client to medical management.
Develop problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
Identify educational needs of the client and family and assist with teaching.
Incorporate assessment finding into a plan to direct client care.
Formulate a plan of care in collaboration with the client, family, physician, nursing staff and other members of the health care team which incorporates health care maintenance, teaching, and follow-up care.
Appropriately prioritize client care.
Plan and implement appropriate pharmacological therapies.
Accurately and appropriately perform routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures.
Initiate referrals based on client and family need.
Seek appropriate consultation dependent upon client health care needs.
Accurately collect, document, and communicate patient history, examination findings, clinical assessment, and plan of care in the electronic medical record and with the interdisciplinary care team.
Identify and promote cost effective, quality client care.
Establish and maintain a collaborative relationship with health care colleagues.
Demonstrate effective use of verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills using strategies that promote problem resolution.
Experience:
Five to seven years of clinical experience, at least three in the specialty area of care preferred.
Ability to maintain a high degree of accuracy in carrying out work duties.
Education:
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Master’s degree in nursing required.
Current RN license in the State of Illinois required.
Current APN license in the State of Illinois required.
Certification as an advanced practice nurse by the appropriate certifying organization required.