Nurse Practitioner Specialist

22 hours ago

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States HAART Inc Full time
Job Purpose:

The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant serves as an independent healthcare provider, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary health team to provide comprehensive care to both well and ill patients in an outpatient setting.

This role requires a high degree of clinical expertise in working with patients with acute and chronic illnesses commonly encountered in adults as well as children.

The provider is responsible for assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management, education, health promotion, and care coordination for patients and families with acute and chronic health needs.

The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant demonstrates an advanced level of medical/nursing clinical knowledge, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration, professionalism, and systems-based practice.

This role works with administrative, nursing, and physician teams to ensure safe, effective, and quality patient care and to promote the mission of HAART Inc.

Essential Job Functions:
  • Satisfies Core Competencies
  • Accepts responsibility for ensuring that performance meets the standards of the professional, ethical, and relevant departmental requirements and HAART Inc core values.
  • The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant will provide care within their scope of practice as outlined by applicable state law, licensing, regulations, institutional policy, and practice agreements.
  • Clinical Knowledge
  • Demonstrates knowledge of etiologies, risk factors, pathophysiology, presentation, and epidemiology of medical conditions.
  • Performs history and physical assessments of patients that are accurate, complete, concise, relevant, and appropriate for age, gender, and clinical problem.
  • Orders appropriate diagnostic studies and correctly interprets the results.
  • Utilizes critical thinking to synthesize and analyze collected data.
  • Develops, implements, evaluates, and alters the plan of care as needed.
  • Manages general medical and surgical conditions based on knowledge of the indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions, and adverse reactions of pharmacologic agents and other relevant treatment modalities.
  • Counsels and educates patients and families.
  • Demonstrates proficiency in procedural skills pertinent to practice area.
  • Maintains accurate, complete, concise, and timely documentation in the electronic record.
  • Patient Care
  • Provides care that is patient and family centered, compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and treatment of disease throughout the lifespan.
  • Facilitates consistent, coordinated care and clear communication among all members of the healthcare team.
  • Incorporates the patient and family in care planning and treatment across settings.
  • Serves as an advocate for patients and families in navigating the healthcare system.
  • Responds to medical and behavioral emergencies in the health center.
  • Quality and Clinical Improvement
  • Demonstrates insight into own strengths, limitations, and knowledge deficits.
  • Demonstrates initiative to meet identified learning needs using multiple resources.
  • Actively participates in self-evaluation by seeking and utilizing guidance and constructive feedback in a professional manner.
  • Continuously seeks opportunities for clinical advancement and knowledge and skill attainment.
  • Considers cost effectiveness and risk/benefit analysis when making decisions about patient care.
  • Uses evidence-based medicine to systematically analyze and improve patient care practices.
  • Participates in quality initiative/performance activities.
  • Participates in development, evaluates, and implements standards of care within area of specialization (policies, protocols, etc).
  • Communication and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Communicates and collaborates effectively with physicians, other health professionals, and health-related agencies.
  • Works effectively with multidisciplinary team members.
  • Promotes mutual respect and trust working within a team model.
  • Communicates effectively with patients and families, incorporating gender, age, culture, race, religion, disabilities, and sexual orientation.
  • Professionalism
  • Follows ethical principles regarding patient confidentiality, informed consent, and unanticipated adverse outcomes.
  • Demonstrates the highest level of accountability for professional practice.
  • Participates in education of students and other healthcare professionals.
  • Maintains effectiveness where circumstances and priorities are changing. Is flexible, resilient, and change-oriented.
  • Welcomes and participates in opportunities to advance the mission of HAART Inc through service, scholarship, science, and social responsibility.
  • Participates in organizational and departmental meetings, educational opportunities, committees, and workgroups as necessary.
Required Education:
  • Unrestricted license to practice in the State of Louisiana
Skills, Licensure, and Knowledge Requirements:
  • Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification required
Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard reach
  • Specific vision abilities required include close vision requirements due to computer work
  • Light to moderate lifting is required
Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those the employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic).
  • Ability to work in a confined area.
  • Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.
Travel or Special Requirements:

Driving during the workday as well as local or out of state travel may be required to perform job duties.

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