Advanced Practice Nurse or Physician Assistant- CVICU

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborates and consults with the interdisciplinary healthcare team, the patient and family when diagnosing, prioritizing problems, and implementing interventions.
• Provides consultation and initiates referrals to other healthcare team members and promotes collaboration among other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Aids interdisciplinary team members, patients, and families in selecting therapies that integrate perspectives of cost and quality of benefits.
• Collaborates with other disciplines in teaching, consultation, management, and research activities to improve outcomes in nursing practice and enhance the healthcare environment.
• Provides effective leadership. Integrates analysis of cost and benefits in care decisions. Designs/Develops innovative solutions for patient care problems that utilize resource efficiency while maintaining or improving quality and advancing best practices.
• Participates, as opportunities arise, in healthcare-related decision-making at the system, local, state, and national levels with an emphasis on improving patient outcomes.
• Serves in key roles by participating in/leading committees, councils, and administrative teams.
• Utilizes, participates in, and disseminates research, evidence-based practice, or quality improvement projects to enhance clinical practice and patient outcomes.
• May serve as primary or co-investigator, or member of the investigative team in conducting nursing or collaborative research.
• Critically evaluates existing practice based on current research findings and integrates changes into practice through an EBP project.
• Evaluates processes of care by serving a as leader or team member in relevant Quality Improvement projects.
• Promotes mentoring and education to nursing by serving as a Journal Club mentor and facilitating learning in critically appraising the literature.
• Serves as a teacher, mentor, role model to nurses in the promotion of nursing research, EBP.
• Serves as preceptor, role model and mentor to staff nurses and colleagues as well as nursing students.
• Teaches, coaches, and supports nurses and other healthcare professionals to advance the care of patients.
• Provides education to the patient and their family for health promotion including secondary prevention strategies.
• Collaborates in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of patient and staff educational needs.
• Ensures nursing practice is conducted in an ethical and legal manner.
• Abides by the Ohio Scope of Practice as an APRN.
• Provides safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care.
• Demonstrates the highest level of accountability for professional practice.
• Preserves the patient’s dignity.
• Serves as a patient advocate by promoting advanced directives and adherence to the patient's wishes.
• Contributes and promotes the discussions of end-of-life decisions and palliative care with the patient, family members, physician and the health care team as appropriate.

Job Requirements

• Master's Degree in Nursing
• Graduate from NP, CNS or midwife program
• Specialty certification in area of expertise
• Registered Nurse with APRN Licensure
• Demonstrated expertise in area of clinical specialization
• Professional membership in specialty nursing organization required within one year of start date
• 3-4 years experience Clinical in Nursing
• Nursing practice in geriatric, occupational health, or other applicable setting.