Nurse Assistant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Education sufficient to obtain the required licensure.
• Currently licensed to practice as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner in Iowa.
• Complete Iowa Dependent Adult Abuse Mandatory Reporter training and submit certification to Human Resources before the start or transfer date.
• Ability to apply critical analytic thought to patient care.
• Ability to assist physicians and nursing staff with procedures.
• Strong leadership qualities.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Strong commitment to excellence.
• Experience evaluating and managing patients in the relevant specialty area.
• For the Care Connections Clinic, proven experience evaluating and managing patients in palliative and/or hospice care.
• For the Care Connections Clinic, valid driver’s license and personal automobile insurance.

Responsibilities

• Perform and document complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical and psychosocial examinations.
• Manage diagnostic tests by ordering, performing, interpreting, and supervising them as part of the assessment process.
• Prescribe pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions in collaboration with the supervising physician.
• Evaluate, modify, and document plans of care according to patients’ responses to therapy, changes in condition, and therapeutic interventions to optimize outcomes.
• Assess the needs of families and caregivers.
• Synthesize information from multiple sources to make clinical judgments and decisions about recommendations and treatments.
• Initiate appropriate referrals and perform consultations.
• Lead the health care team through teaching, coaching, and support to advance the plan of care.
• Maintain current knowledge of state and federal regulations affecting advanced registered nurse practitioner practice.
• Follow Mercy safety guidelines, fulfill job-specific safety responsibilities, and promptly report unsafe conditions, situations, incidents, and injuries.
• Design comfort-care plans for patients with chronic disease or end-of-life conditions in the Care Connections Clinic.
• Work effectively with a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, social workers, chaplains, and the medical director.
• Collaborate with community health care teams to support effective transitions of care.