Nurse Practitioner II

About the role

Provides prenatal, postnatal, and general medical care to patients within the Maternal Fetal Medicine division of Eastern Virginia Medical School's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Functions as an independent provider, primarily coordinating pre-pregnancy, prenatal, and post-partum care for women with high-risk pregnancies.

Responsibilities

• Function as an independent provider, primarily coordinating pre-pregnancy, prenatal, and post-partum care for women with high-risk pregnancies.
• Provide a combination of inpatient and outpatient care duties.
• Perform a complete physical examination, with specific emphasis on the reproductive system.
• Order, perform, and interpret routine laboratory tests.
• Develop and implement plans for health promotion and health maintenance, including plans for disease prevention and provision of health education and counseling.
• Provide periodic health assessments of normal, non-pregnant, and asymptomatic women.
• Provide clinical management of women having gynecologic problems.
• Provide assessment, education, and management for family planning and fertility control.
• Provide prenatal care for women with pregnancies, giving attention to both maternal and fetal health.
• Provide postpartum care, including attention to parent and infant relationships, for women who have had pregnancies.
• Provide health education and counseling, with emphasis on physical and psychosocial dimensions of adolescence, sexuality, childbearing, parenting, climacteric, aging, and family life.
• Co-manage care for patients with selected health complications in collaboration with the physician.
• Arrange referrals to other members of the health-care team as needed and to community resources as appropriate.

Requirements

• MSN with a nurse practitioner focus.
• Licensed RN by the Virginia Board of Nursing.
• Certified nurse practitioner.
• MPA and licensed Physician Assistant within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Qualifications

• Preferred: Experience as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant with obstetric patients.
• CDCES Certification desirable but not required.