Nephrology - Full-Time NP/PA

Patient Assessments

• Provides diagnosis and treatment for common acute illnesses
• Prevention and maintenance care to patients with stable chronic illnesses
• Interim physical exams for healthy patients within nurse protocol
• Separates patients with suspected infectious diseases
• Elicits appropriate present and past medical history and review of symptoms
• Performs appropriate physical examination and orders appropriate diagnostic studies
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings in history and physical
• Establishes the appropriate differential diagnosis
• Affirms the stability of chronic illness and compliance with present therapy
• Makes assessments for need for hospitalization or physician intervention
• Determines timing for follow up and orders appropriate referrals
• Counsels regarding health promotion and disease prevention and provides anticipated guidance as appropriate

Provides Health Education to Patients

• Edits patient on ways to improve, promote and maintain health status
• Assesses learning readiness and capabilities of population or individuals
• Tailors education to meet age, developmental and educational needs
• Prioritizes learning needs and documents them accordingly
• Ensures that time frame and subject matter is appropriate for target audience/individual
• Utilizes appropriate teaching materials (handouts, demonstration and audiovisuals) and document use
• Documents patient learning outcomes
• Initiates, designs and completes educational programs for patients, target audiences and families

Documentation

• Maintains accurate records, medication lists and documentation of care follow up for administrative purposes and reimbursement of services
• Adheres to policy and procedure for documentation of records
• Maintains appropriate level of documentation to promote/support level of complexity when compared against/to service fee charges
• Reviews and updates problem list at least on annual visit/episodic visit by patient and initiates problem and medication list on new patients
• Documents phone calls with patients and specialists
• Documents visit in concise, clear, logical and legible manner
• Accepts after hour calls and handles after hours problem (on a rotating schedule)

Maintains Competence in Clinical Practice

• Identifies knowledge and skills needed through self-assessment and peer review
• Participates in a variety of education activities to maintain and increase competency
• Utilizes continuing education as a basis for expanding medical knowledge and improving clinical skill and incorporates these into daily practice
• Participates in and completes annual educational requirements for Floyd Medical Center and/or the Primary Care Network
• Approved to order and administer flu vaccines for off-site locations

Safety/Security

• Fulfills established safety precautions and procedures in performing duties to ensure a safe environment
• Regularly performs tasks in accordance with policy and procedure including safe use of equipment and machines and appropriate use/wear of personal protective equipment and other safely equipment
• Completes all required safety in service updates

Quality and Performance Improvement

• Completes duties timely
• Promotes financial viability through the provision of services at a reasonable cost and efficient utilization of products, supplies, equipment and time
• Participates in continuing education, professional memberships and other scholarly and community outreach and marketing activities to enhance the NP role and image of nursing in all aspects of patient, community and professional relations

Continuing Education

• Completes competency checklists and unit specific recommendations
• Completes unit and departmental annual skills checklists
• Completes annual training on generating, preparing and/or submitting accurate requests for reimbursement from Federal Health Care programs for professional services
• Utilizes continuing education to expand medical knowledge and improve clinical skills and incorporates into daily practice

About Advocate Health

• Committed to providing equitable care for all
• Nationally recognized for expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs
• Offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs
• Committed to providing equitable care for all
• Provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits