Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner

About the Role

Provides an advanced level of comprehensive health care to a specific patient population in collaboration with medical staff. Follows established applicable nursing and medical standards, procedures, and practices, and gives specific patient care directions to nursing and other support staff.

Responsibilities

• Performs medical examinations and evaluations, diagnoses, treatment, follow-up, consultations, and health education appropriate for the patient’s age and situation.
• Obtains patient histories and develops patient care charges, ensuring completeness and accuracy of documentation.
• Orders, obtains, and interprets appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Designs, orders, and documents appropriate treatment plans/plans of care, including prescriptions of medications based on a comprehensive review of HPI and diagnostic results.
• Communicates plan of care with appropriate providers, including the collaborative physician, the primary care provider, the referring provider, the nursing staff, and the case manager.
• Communicates plan of care with patients and family members.
• Provides patient and family instruction related to the plan of care, disease process, new treatment plans, and medication regimens.
• Provides medical care for ill and injured patients in accordance with accepted standards of care.
• Provides health education to patients and families as required and appropriate.
• Documents medical findings and care provided in the patient’s clinical record, including information on laboratory and radiographic studies.
• Teaches health maintenance procedures and provides educational resources to patients as needed.
• Collaborates with physicians or other health care team members regarding patients’ health needs, outcomes, and effectiveness of care plan.
• Initiates appropriate contact with other health care providers as required.
• Maintains the privacy and security of all confidential and protected health information, using and disclosing only that information necessary to perform the function of the job.
• Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department, or unit patient safety initiatives.
• Takes action to correct observed risks to patient safety and reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
• Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, and devices, and communicates them to those in charge.

Requirements

• Master of Science degree with completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program required.
• Current state licensure as a Nurse Practitioner required.
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse required.
• Current BLS certification or obtained prior to providing direct patient care is required.
• DEA and CDS eligible.

Skills

• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and assess data reflective of the patient's requirements relative to population-specific and age-specific needs.
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills to interact with patient families, departmental units, medical, and nursing staff on all essential matters.
• Demonstrated/documented effective interpersonal skills.
• Maintains updated hospital safety and other mandatory training.
• Updated immunizations as recommended per practice area.