Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - Emergency General Surgery - TMC

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team of general surgeons to perform a wide variety of procedures, ranging from minor skin lesion excisions and cyst removals to complex gallbladder and hernia surgeries, as well as colectomies.
• Initiates patient admissions and collects health, illness psychosocial, and family history from patients; provides initial care of emergencies.
• Performs physical examinations, and orders appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Records patient’s health information, performs periodic health evaluations, and establishes/records care plans; evaluates care plans, monitors and records progress, and makes modifications accordingly.
• Determines normal and abnormal findings on patient history, physical examination, diagnostic tests; initiates referral and consultation when appropriate.
• Consults and collaborates with members of the health care team in the assessment and management of health care problems; functions as a liaison between physicians, nursing, technologists and area support staff.
• Prescribes, regulates, and adjusts medications including over the counter medications and treatments.
• Provides teaching and counseling aimed at prevention of illness and modification of risk factors to health, and maintenance of high-level wellness; instructs and supervises students and hospital personnel in methods and theories of diagnostic testing.
• Assumes responsibility for the on-going therapeutic management of stable long-term health problems in the chronically ill.
• Completes patient discharge summary.
• Assists in the development, implementation, and revision of nursing protocols and standards of care.
• Provides IT skills and familiarity, by using the basic functionality of the computer, Word, Excel, Outlook e-mail and attachment capabilities.
• Maintains compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Nursing or related area, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Five (5) years of related experience, preferably in an acute care setting.
• National certification as a Nurse Practitioner or must be National Certification as a Nurse Practitioner eligible, must become credentialed at TMC through the Professional Staffing Office prior to appointment.
• Must have and maintain a current Arizona state license as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner including prescriptive authority.
• Must obtain and maintain a current Federal Drug Enforcement Agency License for prescribing controlled substances.
• Must obtain and maintain current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS); for Mental Health only Crisis Prevention Instruction (CPI) required.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of nursing care and assessment best practices.
• Knowledge of regulations and policies as it relates to patient evaluation, care and information.
• Skill in evaluating comprehensive health assessments and evaluating results to ensure the most appropriate treatment option.
• Skill in providing the best practice patient care.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, correspondence, and procedure protocols.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries or complaints from patients and/or their representatives, and the general public.
• Ability to work with concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, and to apply mathematical operations to solve or analyze job-related situations.
• Ability to identify positive or negative variances from expected outcomes.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Skills

• Knowledge of nursing care and assessment best practices.
• Knowledge of regulations and policies as it relates to patient evaluation, care and information.
• Skill in evaluating comprehensive health assessments and evaluating results to ensure the most appropriate treatment option.
• Skill in providing the best practice patient care.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, correspondence, and procedure protocols.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries or complaints from patients and/or their representatives, and the general public.
• Ability to work with concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, and to apply mathematical operations to solve or analyze job-related situations.
• Ability to identify positive or negative variances from expected outcomes.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.