Pediatric Neurology APP

FMOLHS•Lafayette, LA

About The Position

The Nurse Practitioner Clinic 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. It relies on education, experience, professional training, and judgment, and calls for creativity and latitude. The position works under minimal supervision and under the direction of a collaborating physician, as appropriate. It may lead and direct others within the scope of practice. The position provides nursing and medical care to patients, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, reassessment, emergency stabilization, documentation, referrals, patient and family education, and coordination with multidisciplinary staff. It also contributes to quality assurance, infection control, practice standards, and the evaluation of care and office processes.

Requirements

Graduate of an approved professional school of nursing.
Completion of a State Board of Nursing-approved Nurse Practitioner course.
License or temporary permit to practice professional nursing as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate competence in practice within the scope of a family or adult nurse practitioner and use appropriate internal and external resources to address patient and family health care needs.
Perform work accurately and provide nursing care in accordance with established practice guidelines, standards of care, and administrative policies and procedures.
Identify common and unusual problems affecting patient populations and develop expected outcomes.
Maintain current nursing knowledge through literature, workshops, seminars, and professional organizations.
Create and maintain accurate patient records, legal documents, and care reports required by applicable regulatory agencies.
Adhere to nursing practice standards and develop or assist in developing quality assurance indicators.
Maintain accurate records of patient-care activities and assist with billing-related information as needed.
Use referral processes and multidisciplinary resources effectively, and maintain appropriate communication and professional relationships with other health care providers.
Operate routine office equipment competently and safely.
Complete office visit requests, outside testing requests, and routine information accurately and promptly.
Follow corporate policies for fire and safety, hazardous-material handling when applicable, and infection control.
Participate in quality assurance and infection control programs as appropriate.
Assess situations, consider alternatives, and select appropriate actions.
Assess and diagnose patients, develop plans of care, and evaluate outcomes in a competent and timely manner.
Request and assist the collaborating physician with care-plan development when appropriate.
Reassess patients and their progress, revise care plans as needed, and document findings.
Assess and help resolve patients’ psychosocial problems and support needs, consulting and involving other health care personnel as appropriate.
Distinguish normal from abnormal history and physical examination findings and document them in the patient record.
Manage work time and priorities effectively, assist others as needed, and use available time productively.
Perform indicated diagnostic, therapeutic, and emergency measures, including care for cardiac or respiratory arrest or distress, injuries, burns, hemorrhage, superficial foreign-body removal, dressing and bandage application, and basic hearing and vision testing.
Initiate emergency measures to stabilize patients with apnea, shock, or respiratory or cardiac arrest.
Communicate courteously and professionally with patients, visitors, and families.
Use problem-solving skills and take responsibility for improving technical, critical-thinking, and interpersonal skills.
Communicate patient impressions, medical-management plans, and relevant information to the collaborating physician as appropriate.
Plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care within nurse practitioner scope and collaborative practice guidelines.
Use initiative and independent judgment to assess, implement, and evaluate care for patients encountered by the practice.
Plan individualized care that supports continuity and family involvement, identify nursing interventions, and develop options to meet clinic patients’ and families’ needs.
Develop nursing care and practice standards and quality assurance criteria to help evaluate patient care.
Collaborate with appropriate personnel to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive plans for patients and, where appropriate, their families.
Use interviewing skills to gather information from patients with complex problems and formulate plans to address them.
Participate in office-based medical care, including comprehensive health histories, physical assessments using observation, inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, and indicated screening procedures.
Set patient-care priorities with appropriate personnel.
Assess the appropriateness of the office health care delivery system and recommend policy or procedure changes when warranted.
Initiate or modify medical treatment.
Assess medical and nursing care provided by self and others, identify improvement needs, and communicate them to appropriate personnel.
Accurately assess the health status of patients who come to or telephone the practice for assistance or information.
Help develop and implement patient and family teaching plans in collaboration with appropriate personnel.
Perform other duties as assigned, including consistently following the 12 organizational Service Standards focused on Values, Service, and Quality.