Addiction Medicine Nurse Practitioner

• Prescribes and recommends drugs or other forms of treatment under the direction of a physician.
• Initiate and coordinate visits, drug orders, laboratory procedures, consultations, and treatments for patients based on clinical needs or protocol requirements.
• Monitor patients for toxicities of treatment and other possible adverse reactions to drugs or procedures that may require emergency treatment or revision of the prescribed regimen.
• Administer and adjust trial medication under the guidance of a physician.
• Provide documentation and monitoring and grading of side effects related to a variety of study interventions including drugs and psychological behaviors.
• Monitor drug compliance by subjects throughout the life of the protocol and document missed doses of medication.
• Obtains medical histories.
• Take histories and perform physical examinations or perform daily progress evaluations for inpatients or follow-up visits for outpatients and document appropriately.
• Review patient's charts to collect relevant clinical data and analyze trends in patient responses collected through structured and semi structured interviews with patients and patients' families.
• Perform intake and preliminary evaluation of potential subjects through e-Interviewing, review of medical records, completion of safety screening, consultation with treating professionals, and with medical staff.
• Screen healthy subjects and patients and interview subjects to obtain social and medical history and medication history.
• Communicate with patients' home physicians and family care institutions for the release of medical records, imaging studies and pathology slides.
• Performs physical exams.
• Perform physical examinations of adult patients with complex and difficult multi-system diseases, enter results into patient charts and address any concerns that arise from research participants following completion of examination.

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