Nurse Practitioner-Cardiology-Structural Interventional

Job Requisition ID: R00049982 | Full time | Exempt

About the Role

To manage and provide patient medical care and promote patient health and wellness by assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating appropriate patient care in collaboration with a physician and in accordance with UMMC, state, and federal requirements and guidelines.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Nursing
• Mississippi APRN license and national certification applicable to the area of practice

Job applications may be accepted for candidates that currently meet the minimum qualifications or candidates actively pursuing the degree and licensure requirements who will meet all minimum requirements within 6 months. Minimum qualifications must be satisfied prior to starting work.

Responsibilities

• Completes health assessments (patient histories and physical exams)
• Orders, collects, and interprets relevant laboratory and other diagnostic tests
• Formulates and implements comprehensive patient care plans based on patient assessments, including patient and family education, prescriptions, additional lab and diagnostic testing, and therapies
• Ensures complete documentation of patient assessments, patient care plans, and care provided
• Serves as educator and mentor to graduate nursing students and new hire advance practice providers
• Functions as expert/resource to nursing staff in area of specialty
• Serves on at least one nursing council, hospital, or medical center committee, task force, or project team to improve patient care or work area
• Demonstrates core standards of exceptional customer service
• Directs the management of patient care on designated patient care unit
• Directs overall operations of designated patient care unit, including making rounds, interviewing patients, and collaborating with physicians and other health care team members to ensure optimum patient care
• Identifies, establishes, directs, evaluates, and reports clinic/unit-based quality improvement activities to enhance the delivery of clinical care at University of Mississippi Healthcare

The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Skills

• Knowledge of nursing care procedures and protocols
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Knowledge and understanding of computer systems, tools, and programs

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold
• Occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment
• Occasional exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood-borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals (requires attention to safety considerations)
• Frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours
• Occasional traveling to offsite locations
• Occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature
• Occasional work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality
• Occasional bending, lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, climbing, crawling, crouching/stooping, driving, kneeling, pushing/pulling, reaching, and sitting
• Occasional standing, frequent twisting, and constant walking

(Occasional: up to 20%, Frequent: 21% to 50%, Constant: 51% or more)