Nurse Practitioner - Forsythe Clinic NE

FMOLHS•Monroe, LA

About The Position

The Nurse Practitioner examines and treats patients independently and in autonomous collaboration with other health care professionals, following established standards and practices. The role ensures appropriate illness and injury care, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. The Nurse Practitioner relies on education, experience, professional training, and judgment, and is expected to exercise creativity and latitude. The position works under minimal supervision and under the direction of the collaborating physician, as appropriate. It may lead and direct the work of others within the scope of practice. The role provides patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, therapeutic and diagnostic procedures, referrals, follow-up, and patient and family education. It collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, coordinates care, documents patient activities, supports patient-care team learning, precepts students, contributes to quality improvement and clinical research, and helps develop or revise standards, guidelines, and protocols.

Requirements

Advanced Practice License from the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
Certification as a Nurse Practitioner by ANCC or AANP.
Current Louisiana state RN license.
Current BLS Certification, required within 6 months of hire.
Customer service skills.
Verbal and communication skills.
Computer skills.

Responsibilities

Assess patients, document learning needs and nursing histories, and identify patients at physiological or psychological risk.
Formulate diagnoses and order appropriate therapeutic and diagnostic procedures in accordance with care standards and protocols.
Implement treatment plans and consult or refer to interdisciplinary team members as appropriate.
Reassess and modify plans of care based on physiological and psychosocial findings, and review plans with the interdisciplinary team.
Order tests and consultations, review test results, and discuss plans of care with patients and families.
Provide patient education based on identified risk factors and develop, revise, and evaluate patient education programs.
Document patient care activities according to documentation standards and contribute to performance improvement through medical record review.
Use multidisciplinary teams appropriately and coordinate patient care and communication to support outcomes and continuity of care.
Precept students in accordance with specified guidelines.
Identify, provide, develop, and maintain learning resources for the patient care team as requested.
Provide safe, holistic, systematic therapeutic care to support desired patient outcomes.
Recognize trends in patient populations, explore alternatives to care, and assist with revising standards, guidelines, and protocols.
Participate in clinical research and review current nursing research literature, applying findings to clinical practice.
Analyze practices contributing to variance, assist with analysis of aggregate data, and support improvements in performance and outcomes.
Assist in developing and revising standards for patient populations using an interdisciplinary approach, best practices, and research findings.
Complete other assigned duties within specified time frames.
Participate in hospital committees and other quality-improvement activities as requested by the manager.