Nurse Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States Baton Rouge General Full time
Job Purpose

To enhance the quality of life for patients and their families by coordinating patient care processes, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, and relevant support services for the age population served, as defined in the department's scope of service.

Performance Criteria
  • Everyday Excellence Values: The nurse demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.
  • Performance Standards:
    • Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients, and their families, physicians, and the community.
    • Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
    • Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
    • Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
    • Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
    • Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions, and anticipates information needs of customers.
  • Corporate Compliance: The nurse demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.
  • Performance Standards:
    • Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
    • Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
    • Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.
  • Personal Achievement: The nurse demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.
  • Performance Standards:
    • Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
    • Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
    • Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.
  • Performance Improvement: The nurse actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in their job performance.
  • Performance Standards:
    • Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
    • Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
    • Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
    • Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.
  • Cost Management: The nurse demonstrates effective cost management practices.
  • Performance Standards:
    • Effectively manages time and resources.
    • Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization - material, human, and financial.
    • Consistently looks for and uses resource-saving processes.
  • Patient & Employee Safety: The nurse actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.
  • Performance Standards:
    • Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates, and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
    • Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries, or potential injuries.
    • Employee demonstrates departmental-specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
    • Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment, and devices and follows safety policies, procedures, and plans.
Job Functions
  • Essential Job Functions include, but are not limited to:
    • Coordinates patient assessment through collection of patient's health data.
    • Performs ongoing and systematic comprehensive physical and psychosocial assessments.
    • Involves the patient, significant others, and healthcare providers as appropriate.
    • Performs functional, nutritional, and other screenings and ensures triggers are complete.
    • Identifies and coordinates the need for further assessment by discipline.
    • Documents patient care assessments in the medical record.
    • Analyzes patient assessments to determine nursing diagnoses and identifies expected outcomes.
    • Coordinates an interdisciplinary plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
    • Implements the interventions identified in the plan of care.
    • Evaluates the patient's progress toward attainment of outcomes.
    • Performs other duties as assigned.
Experience Requirements

1 year Nursing experience preferred

Special Skill, License, and Knowledge Requirements

Current Louisiana RN licensure

HIPAA Requirements

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, medical records related to quality data, patient financial information, patient billing 3rd party information, patient-related complaints, information related to patient location, religious beliefs, and/or public health records

Safety Requirements

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps, and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, administers/receives/collects medications/blood products, validates, transports, monitors, or observes patients for procedures including infusion pumps, and monitors clinical alarms.



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