Nurse Practitioner

Clinical Judgment and Decision-Making

As a key member of our healthcare team, you will utilize clinical reasoning to conduct accurate assessments, identify patient and family needs, and develop and implement individualized plans of care. Your expertise will enable you to prioritize patient needs, modify plans as necessary, and promote optimal clinical outcomes.

Clinical Inquiry and Evidence-Based Practice

You will play a vital role in evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including nursing-sensitive indicators. Your contributions will support evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning, and you will participate in quality/performance improvement initiatives.

Caring Practices and Therapeutic Relationships

You will create a compassionate, supportive, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff. Your ability to develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families, while maintaining appropriate boundaries, will be essential in promoting comfort, healing, and preventing unnecessary suffering.

Response to Diversity and Inclusion

You will recognize, appreciate, and incorporate patients' and families' unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into individualized plans of care.

Advocacy and Moral Agency

You will preserve and protect patients' and families' confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights, and represent their concerns. Your ability to create individualized plans that reflect patients' and families' values and goals will be critical in identifying and resolving ethical and clinical concerns.

Facilitation of Learning and Education

You will facilitate learning for patients, families, nursing staff, other healthcare team members, and the community, integrating education throughout the continuum of care to promote informed decision-making about health care and treatments.

Collaboration and Teamwork

You will work collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and the community to develop and implement integrated plans of care. Your ability to delegate tasks and care to appropriate staff, ensure timely follow-up, and promote continuity of care will be essential.

Systems Thinking and Resource Management

You will use strategies and available resources to problem-solve for patients, families, and staff, recognizing that resources are limited and considering factors related to safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.

Professionalism and Growth

You will improve nursing practice and the work environment through shared governance and decision-making processes, recognizing the contributions of others. Your commitment to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking, and professional development will be essential in promoting the growth of others.

Responsibilities include:

• Assessing patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, and cultural needs, and reviewing patient history and physical with patients/families.
• Formulating plans of care, including discharge plans, utilizing assessment data and patient, family, and healthcare team input.
• Implementing plans of care through direct patient care, coordination, delegation, and supervision of healthcare team activities.
• Evaluating patient response to care and teaching, and revising plans of care as needed.
• Documenting assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation in patient records.
• Providing care based on best evidence available, and participating in research activities within clinical practice.
• Participating in unit or facility shared leadership, and interacting with patients, families, students, and visitors.

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