Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Specialty

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

The advanced nurse practitioner will assist a physician in the global management of patient care in the ambulatory and acute settings. The advanced nurse practitioner role will include providing diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical and preventative care, under the supervision of a physician in one of the following specialties: Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Hematology/Oncology, Neurology, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation & Pain Management, Psychiatry, Radiology, Urology, Endocrinology, Hospice & Palliative Care, Infectious Disease, Sports Medicine, Rheumatology, Sleep Medicine, Nephrology. The nurse practitioner will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting patient care, frequently advising patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or providing case management.

Essential duties include conducting thorough medical histories, performing complete physical examinations, initiating appropriate lab, radiology tests or other specialized tests required for evaluation of illness, and scrutinizing lab data on new and former clinic patients and hospital admissions to establish a record of the patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan. The advanced nurse practitioner will also perform routine procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, managing simple conditions produced by infection or trauma, assisting in the management of more complex illness and injury as privileged by the Genesis Credentialing Board. They may prescribe and monitor medications as allowed by prescriptive authority through applicable state Board of Nursing/Medicine and Genesis Credentialing Board. They may need to take call and work some off-hour shifts as needed. They will also perform in-hospital consultations, facilitate appropriate length of stay, discharge planning, and compliance with regulatory standards for inpatient management. They will ensure continuity of care by serving as a liaison between patient and other members of the multi-disciplinary care team or with other specialty areas as necessary. They will participate in quality monitoring thru the review of records and treatment plans for patient outcomes periodically to assure quality care. They will discharge plan by dictating discharge summaries, writing prescriptions, explaining discharge instructions and confirming follow-up appointments. Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications include being a graduate of an accredited APRN training program, having current Ohio RN and APRN licensure, having a current certificate of authority and certificate to prescribe (or eligible) by the Ohio Board of Nursing, having current DEA registration (for Interventional Radiology only), having acute care, surgical, critical care, or trauma experience preferred, and having required certifications such as BLS to be obtained within six months of hire. Additional certifications, such as ACLS, may be required based on specialty area.

Patient centered care and behavioral expectations include living the Genesis mission, vision and values, performing work in a manner that is quality focused, treating patients, co-workers, visitors and volunteers with courtesy, compassion, empathy and respect, being results oriented and focused on achievement of objectives, acknowledging and responding to the diversity of people and the situation, encouraging peers (others) to be owners of change, making the effort to anticipate and exceed customer needs and expectations, possessing the ability to engage others with patience and understanding, acting in a manner that creates positive first and lasting impressions, demonstrating the ability to own issues until they are resolved, introducing self and roleconnecting with everyone, communicating effectively and asking for feedback, asking for and anticipating needs and concerns of others, maintaining a positive work environment for staff and a healing environment for patients, maintaining the dignity and privacy of each person; managing confidential/sensitive information appropriately, responding to requests in an appropriate and timely manner, exiting patient/customer encounters courteously, asking if there are additional needs that can be addressed, demonstrating safe Patient Handling, demonstrating safe Materials Handling, demonstrating appropriate knowledge of Infectious Disease precautions and use of proper protective equipment, demonstrating Slips/Trips and Falls Awareness, actively contributing to maintaining a safe, clean and quiet environment.

Working conditions/physical requirements include routine potential exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, working on a patient unit or outpatient care setting, ability to lift or move up to 50 pounds, ability to sit, stand, push, pull, bend, and squat, ability to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, ability to walk for extended periods of time, close up and peripheral vision abilities.

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