Weekend Matron

Renowned as the academic flagship of the University of Maryland Medical System, our Magnet®-designated facility is a nationally recognized, academic medical center with opportunities across the continuum of care. Come join UMMC and discover the atmosphere where talents and ideas come together to enhance patient care and advance the science of nursing. Located in downtown Baltimore near the Inner Harbor and Camden Yards, you won’t find a more vibrant place to work  This position is working in our Outpatient Myeloma Clinic in downtown Baltimore. The ideal candidate for this is a Nurse Practitioner who has experience with Oncology patients and is willing to work a 4 day a week (10 hour per shift) schedule. 
 
Summary Under general supervision, responsible for diagnosing and treating patients in collaboration with physician colleagues. Provide continuity of patient care by facilitating and coordinating communication between the health care team, patient and patient’s family. Coordinate care to ensure quality, cost effective care; A detailed description specific to performance functions will be described in the Nurse Practitioner's collaborative written agreement.
In collaboration with the attending physician, provides day to day organizational and clinical direction and leadership of the healthcare provider team.
Establishes medical diagnosis based on history, assessment, and diagnostic findings.
Designs, orders and documents appropriate treatment plans/plans of care including prescriptions of medications based on a comprehensive review of HPI and diagnostic results.
Initiates protocols/clinical pathways, evaluates the plan of care ensuring timely intervention.
Collaborates with attendings and residents regarding admission, discharge and transfer decisions.
Communicates plan of care with appropriate providers including the collaborative physician, the primary care provider, the referring provider, the nursing staff, and the case manager.
Communicates plan of care with the patients and family members. Provides patient and family instruction related to the plan of care, disease process, new treatment plans, and medication regimens.
Counsels and educates patients and family members in disease process, health maintenance and health promotion activities. Provides primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive care services.
Advocates for patients ensuring patient/family participation in care, knowledge of treatment options, and understanding of patient rights.
Pain service, palliative care)
Provides formal and informal educational programs for other members of the health care team consistent with evidence-based practice standards.
Precepts students.
Functions as a clinical resource for other team members including but not limited to interns, residents, fellows, nurses, and medical students.
Provides community education, health promotion and outreach.
Acts as a community health resource for specialty disease entity.
Works with the physician and nurse practitioner staff to assure this coverage.
Works with physician leaders and hospital administration to achieve service specific outcome targets for key metrics including clinical outcomes, LOS, cost of care and patient satisfaction.
Participates in performance improvement activities aimed at improving clinical outcomes and minimizing variation.
Participates in and leads quality assurance activities (i.e., Advances the patient care delivery process through the application of research, evidence-based practice standards, and industry best practices.
Advises and influences hospital level policy and procedure that improves the delivery of care.
Introduces and evaluates new patient care delivery systems, models of care and therapeutic and preventive interventions that target patient needs not met by current care delivery strategies.
Maintains compliance and regulatory documentation for administrative purposes and reimbursement for services.
Supervises ancillary staff including completing annual reviews.
Serves on department, hospital and community committees.
Maintains professional licensure, certification, and collaborative agreement as required by the Maryland State Board of Nursing and national certifying organizations
Participates in and presents at local, regional, and national professional organizations.
Acts as a loyal and supportive informed spokesperson for the hospital.
Serves as a clinical trial sub investigator participating in or coordinating all phases of industry sponsored research.
Doctorally prepared nurse practitioners are expected to conduct nursing research as the principle investigator adding to the body of knowledge in the nursing domain.
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Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served. Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's requirements relative to his or her population-specific and age specific needs.
# Highly effective verbal and written communication skills are required to interact with patient families, departmental units, medical and nursing staff on all essential matters. Demonstrated/documented effective interpersonal skills.
# Maintains updated hospital safety and other mandatory training.
# Weekend, shift work, holiday, on-call and overtime may be required.
# There is potential for regular exposure to patients possessing infectious diseases in the work environment; Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department or unit patient safety initiatives.
# Takes action to correct observed risks to patient safety.
# Implements policies, procedure, and standards consistently in the performance of assigned duties.
# Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, devices and communicates the same to those in charge.