Nurse Practitioner

Clinical Judgment and Decision-Making

As a key member of our healthcare team, you will utilize clinical reasoning to conduct accurate assessments and develop individualized plans of care. You will identify and prioritize patient and family needs, ensuring timely and effective interventions.

Clinical Inquiry and Evidence-Based Practice

You will systematically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, participating in quality/performance improvement initiatives and supporting evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning.

Caring Practices and Patient-Centered Care

You will create a compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff, developing therapeutic relationships and maintaining appropriate boundaries. You will manage both emotional and physical pain, promoting comfort and healing while preventing unnecessary suffering.

Response to Diversity and Inclusion

You will recognize, appreciate, and incorporate a patient's and family's unique differences into an individualized plan of care, ensuring culturally sensitive and respectful care.

Advocacy and Moral Agency

You will preserve and protect patient and family confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights, representing their concerns and creating individualized plans that reflect their values and goals.

Facilitation of Learning and Education

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

Collaboration and Interprofessional Practice

You will work collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement integrated plans of care, open to all team members' unique contributions and delegating tasks and care as needed.

Systems Thinking and Resource Management

You will use strategies and available resources for problem-solving, considering factors related to safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.

Professionalism and Shared Governance

You will improve nursing practice and the work environment through shared governance and decision-making processes, recognizing the contributions of others and participating in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation.

You will assess patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, and cultural needs, reviewing patient history and physical with the patient/family and ensuring timely completion. You will formulate a plan of care, considering patient-specific needs, assessment data, and the medical plan of care, and implement the plan through direct patient care, coordination, delegation, and supervision of the activities of the healthcare team.

You will evaluate patient progress towards goals and expected outcomes in collaboration with other healthcare team members, revising the plan of care as needed and documenting assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation in the patient record.

You will provide care based on the best evidence available, participating in research activities within clinical practice and promoting/supporting growth of others through precepting and mentoring when appropriate.

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