Advanced Practice Provider Neuroscience

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary health team
• Provides comprehensive care to patients by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care
• Focused mainly on inpatient care, may also work in outpatient clinical practice
• Provides general neurology and acute stroke care to Emergency Department patients, Observation Unit patients and inpatients
• Cares for patients with neurological disease and/or stroke
• May work at multiple sites on any given day depending on patient volume
• Participates in virtual rounds with the neurology attending via a telemedicine mobile unit
• Participates in patient and family teaching
• Provides leadership by working cooperatively with health care team members
• Maintains standards for professional practice in the clinical setting
• Supports delivery of evidence-based acute stroke assessment and management
• Provides expert nursing consultation and practice oversight
• Develops and delivers acute stroke continuing education programs
• Participates in performance improvement processes
• Participates in Comprehensive Stroke research