Nurse Practitioner Specialty
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Job Location:
Baton Rouge, LA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
To provide nursing medical care for high acuity patients in collaboration with a physician.
Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Provides direct patient care management to high acuity patients including performing histories and physicals admits and discharges; related to the care of specialty patients focusing on the maintenance achievement and restoration of optimal functions of patients.
- The NP will also visit patients prior to surgery conduct discharge teaching afterward and prescribe medications including narcotics.
Partnership and Collaboration
- Plans implements and evaluates nursing medical care consistent with medical treatment and care in collaboration with a physician. Additionally the practitioner will initiate or modify medical treatment within an established plan of medical protocol.
- The NP will assist with consults write orders coordinate with consulting physicians and accompany physicians on rounds. The NP will analyze clinical data; order and/or perform necessary diagnostic tests or procedures; develop implement and evaluate the therapeutic regimen.
Quality
- The NP will teach and provide support for patients and their families; minimize fragmentation by providing coordination of care; manage transition of the patient to step-down units or to out-patient settings; and serve as patient advocates.
Other Duties As Assigned
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
- Criteria for Hospital Setting Nurse Practitioner: Patients of this role are of higher acuity in a specialized area This role involves being on call; This role involves hospital rounds; This role would be involved in assisting MDs with procedures (in clinic and/or hospital)
Qualifications
Education:Masters degree in Nursing
Licensure:ACLS; RN;BLS (Basic Life Support) Certification Current/unrestricted RN license; Advanced Practice License; ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center)
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Pain Management
- Acute Care
- Primary Care Experience
- Suturing
- Vital Signs Experience
- Dermal Fillers
- Experience Administering Injections
- Pediatrics Experience
- Nursing
- Botox Experience
- Medicare
About Company
Our Lady of the Lake is uniquely capable of caring for a full range of illness or injury, including those that are extremely complex, for both pediatric and adult patients. Our family of services includes: An 988-bed hospital and the area’s only Level II Trauma Center A freestanding C ... View more
