Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner)

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Conduct and direct collaborative care assessment, diagnosis and management of patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Perform a systematic physical examination and interpret abnormal and normal findings to form a diagnosis regarding physical, emotional, or social disabilities.

Order and interpret related laboratory and diagnostic tests; prescribe medications; and initiates emergency care.

Educate patients and their families regarding healthcare processes and diagnostic tests; therapeutic regimen, including medication, diet, follow-up care; and methods of adapting medication and treatment to current lifestyles.

Document encounters, assessments, orders, and interventions, appropriately, in the electronic medical record.

Consult and collaborate with physicians regarding patient management, to include evaluating and revising therapeutic plans and managing high-risk, unstable, or extremely complex patients.

Provide counseling to patients and their families in prevention of illness, maintenance of health, and attainment of physical, mental, and social well-being.

Assist in the designing, development and evaluation of quality improvement methodologies.