Advanced Reg Nurse Practitioner - ENT/Head and Neck - Full Time

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse delivers medical care to a wide variety of patients. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse is also examines and treats patients independently and in autonomous collaboration with other health care professionals. Ensures proper illness and injury care and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. May prescribe medications and order diagnostic tests. Advises patients about continuing care.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Core Qualifications:

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Department Specific Function:

• Participates in Patients Rounds with the Surgical Teams: Head and Neck, Surgical Oncology, Neurological surgery, Orthopaedic surgery, Cardiac surgery, Thoracic surgery, Urology.
• Completes history, perform physical examination, review medical records and laboratory reports and document in electronic medical record (Epic/UChart)
• Work as part of the interdisciplinary team to execute these daily plans, and acts as a liaison between Nursing and Surgical services to ensure proper follow-through on all patients
• Provides education to nursing, patients & family on wound care / drain care or removal / tracheostomy tube care or change / feeding tube care/line care or change as part of the daily post operative care to facilitate transition to home care.
• Participates in the quality control program while providing continuous assessment and improvement of the quality of care and/or service.
• See consultations in the inpatient unit/Emergency room as needed to facilitate efficient care and disposition to reduce ED LOS.
• Provide appropriate patient documentation as needed, to include progress notes, discharge summaries, comorbidity documentation to drive the case mix index (CMI) and queries from the documentation team.
• Facilitate timely & safe discharges to meet the goals set by the institution.
• Collaborate with physician leaders by attending monthly data analytics/efficiency meetings to understand and facilitate institutional goals.
• Ensures continuous flow of communication with leadership of outpatient healthcare clinics to enhance quality of healthcare services to patients.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.