Job Summary :
The Infectious Disease Nurse Practitioner (NP) is responsible for delivering comprehensive, evidence-based care to patients with acute and chronic infectious diseases across inpatient and outpatient settings. The NP collaborates closely with infectious disease physicians, hospitalists, primary care providers, pharmacists, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals to evaluate, diagnose, treat, and monitor patients with complex conditions. The role includes hospital rounds, outpatient clinic visits, care coordination, patient education, and quality improvement initiatives. The APRN works closely with sponsoring Physicians, Medical Staff, Management Council, Department Heads, Clinic Manager, Hospital Associates, defined customers, and the general public.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities:
*Note: While these are considered essential responsibilities of the position, alternativesor accommodations may be considered if the situation requires.
Fiscal Responsibility
- Maintains accurate, concise and legible medical records. Demonstrates computer literacy of systems available at clinic including, but not limited to, meaningful use and billing.
- Demonstrates effective time and supply management, supports leadership in implementation of scheduling, and participates in supply change to improve cost effective care.
- Seeks assistance from resources to optimize patient care and provides assistance to patients in arranging continuity of care through utilization of community resources.
- Completes timely billing for services rendered.
Quality
- Confirms and/or establishes appropriate medical diagnosis related to patient complaint; orders, performs, and interprets laboratory tests; orders, radiological/ultrasound procedures and evaluates results; prescribes medication(s); and assesses and manages follow-up plans.
- Follows written or established protocols per agreement with sponsoring physician and collaborates with the physician as appropriate to ensure patient positive outcomes.
- Promote high quality, evidence-based care in accordance with current infectious disease guidelines and best practice.
- Monitor outpatient follow up, laboratory surveillance, and treatment adherence to improve outcomes and reduce avoidable hospitalizations.
Patient Satisfaction
- Prioritizes and revises patient care plan/education according to patient/significant others’ input, initial assessment/diagnosis/clinical response, diagnostic findings, and provides direct patient education, and provides assistance to patients when a referral to a specialty physician, health care provider or community resource is needed.
- Assesses cognitive and personal assets or limitations of patient/family.
- Provides appropriate patient education, counseling, and support.
- Represents the Hospital positively in provision of service to the community independently and at Hospital sponsored or community events.
Patient Safety
- Accountable for assignment, organization, and delegated aspects of patient safety, adjusting patient safety efforts according to developmental stage.
- Assures that all aspects of care provided by self is accurate, current, and appropriate to growth and developmental stages (infancy through geriatrics as assigned), and agency policies and standards.
- Assesses and manages comprehensive care and, in conjunction with physician, nursing and other professional services, is responsible to evaluate and risk stratify both well and ill patients.
- Conducts comprehensive or episodic health assessment to include patient history, related current complaint including psychosocial, past medical/personal history, and provides care for clients appropriate to growth and development.
Professional Growth
- Participates in the peer review process, education, competency testing and evaluation, skill development and provides input to evaluation, documenting performance of staff and students in the clinic and/or lab.
- Remains informed of current knowledge and trends through continuing education, takes a self-directed approach to obtain learning activities/skills to increase professional competence and practice related to primary area of clinical work and population age, maintains educational record, and presents such for annual review.
- Provides and accepts formal/informal evaluation feedback constructively to improve workplace issues and peer performance and offers suggestions/options for unresolved issues/problems.
Customer Service
- Meets Hospital identified customer service standards; addresses ethical issues and promotes commitment to co-workers.
- Exhibits excellent guest relations to patients, visitors, physicians and coworkers; shows courtesy, compassion and respect; conforms to Service
- Excellence requirements. This position requires regular, effective communication and interaction with patients, families, staff and physicians, the public, co-workers, administrators, contacts from other hospitals, schools and/or other departments.
- Must be accessible to the laboratory to provide onsite, telephone, or electronic consultation when assigned to the onsite lab.
Education and Experience Required:
1. Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing is required for employment.
2. MSN required for all new hires.
3. Previous experience in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Wound Care, Critical Care or Related Specialty Preferred.
4. Computer skills required.
5. Area specific required education may be obtained upon hire and is to be maintained.
Mandatory Licensure/Certifications:
Current licensure by the Indiana State Board of Nurses’ Registration and Nursing Education as an active Registered Nurse. Certified APRN required for all new hires.
*Job description is not meant to cover or include all the tasks, duties or responsibilities the employee may be required to perform. Job duties and responsibilities can change at any time, with or without notice due to business need.
Work Shift :
7:30am – 4:30pm (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours :
24