Nurse Practitioner

SUMMARY:

Nurse Practitioner/APP, Breast Imaging

The Nurse Practitioner is accountable to facilitate a quality hospital experience and outcome for patients within a cost-effective time frame. Under the general supervision of the Medical Director, and in cooperation with the Director, Diagnostic Imaging, and Diagnostic Imaging Manager, is responsible for coordinating patient care activities for select at risk individuals with clinically significant cancers.

The Nurse Practitioner at the Breast Imaging Center facilitates the experience and outcomes for patients on the continuum from screening to diagnosis to breast cancer treatment. Acts as an educator, consultant, and liaison to healthcare providers caring for the patients across the care continuum.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrates a fundamental grounding in nursing theory and practice with mastery of knowledge within a defined content area.

• Manages a caseload of patients with breast health care needs in partnership with the healthcare team to optimize health status and coordinate care over time and across healthcare settings.

• Provides leadership in the development, validation, implementation, and evaluation of standards, policies, procedures, and critical paths to support the patient care delivery model.

• Oversees care coordination in acute, homecare, and ambulatory care settings as feasible. Effectively communicates with referring providers and the health care team at the breast imaging center to provide patients with patient-centered and evidence-based care.

• Assists the healthcare team to achieve mutually agreed upon healthcare goals by providing necessary support, education and encouragement.

• Demonstrates advanced physical and psychosocial assessment skills and knowledge of family dynamics.

• Provides direct care to patients in acute care, ambulatory care and home care settings. This includes providing patients breast cancer risk assessment, educating patients on imaging results, providing pre- and post- procedure education and wound care, assisting with procedures, compassionately delivering biopsy results, and efficiently making referrals for treatment.

• Assists in assuring proper compliance with outside regulatory agencies and assists in preparation and maintaining necessary data collection for regulatory certifications for the center.

• Performs advanced practice skills under the supervision of the Medical Director.

• Provides expert consultation for clinical issues promoting increased knowledge and skills for the consultee.

• Participates in the education, clinical research and mentoring of healthcare providers.

• Facilitates patient/family education in area of expertise.

• Annually completes mandatory safety infection control, BLS, and ACLS/PALS.

• Prescriptive privileges per licensure.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Licensure as Registered Nurse in the State of Rhode Island by the Rhode Island Board of Nursing or licensure as a Registered Nurse in accordance with the Nurse Licensure Compact agreement of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.BASIC KNOWLEDGE:

• Masters of Science Degree,

• Graduate of accredited Nurse Practitioner program. Specialty certification required.

• Baccalaureate in Nursing

• Certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS).

• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to patients with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process.

EXPERIENCE:

• Two years related experience as RN in acute care hospital setting and preferred 1-2 years experience as a nurse practitioner.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• General hospital environment with occasional stressful conditions associated with patient care.

INDEPENDENT ACTION:

• Responds to individual patient-care situations demonstrating knowledge and skills acquired through education, certification and work experience.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• None.

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EEO Statement:

Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

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