Neurology - Nurse Practitioner - Center City

About the Role

The Neurology Nurse Practitioner (NP) provides comprehensive clinical support to faculty within the Jefferson Cognitive Neurology Division, focusing on the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of outpatient populations with cognitive neurological disorders. This role works collaboratively with attending physicians and interdisciplinary team members to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care while practicing within the legal scope of licensure.

The NP plays a key role in the care of patients with dementia, including both neurological and behavioral aspects, as well as ongoing care management and coordination with caregivers and support services. This position also supports emerging treatments and management strategies for patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), including assisting with the evaluation of eligibility for new therapies and monitoring treatment response. The NP provides consultation services for neurology patients presenting with psychiatric or behavioral syndromes as part of a specialized “memory clinic” model of care, collaborating with psychiatry and other specialties to ensure comprehensive management of complex cases.

The Neurology NP contributes to maintaining clinic efficiency, enhancing patient outcomes, and supporting the academic and clinical mission of the division through excellence in care delivery and teamwork.

Responsibilities

Assessment & Management

• Performs complete history and physicals and documents in the medical record.
• Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information, and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• May serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.
• Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions, and diagnostic procedures.

Diagnosis

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
• Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
• Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.

Plan of Care

• Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
• Implements and modifies plan of care.
• Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
• May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.

Documentation

• Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and/or clinic note where applicable (H&P, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries, in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary).
• Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards, and captures patient acuity.

Communication and Collaboration

• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
• Facilitates and communicates with patient, family, and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.

Professional Practice

• Demonstrates professional practice behaviors including preceptor/mentoring and education and instruction of graduate students.
• Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidence-based practice.
• Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty-specific meetings.
• Maintains CEUs and membership in a professional organization.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree
• National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• BLS certification

Schedule

Workday Day shift

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including:

• Medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, and vision coverage
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement plans
• Tuition assistance and discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full-time service or two years of part-time service
• Voluntary benefits, providing access to group rates on insurance and discounts

All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.