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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Health Science
occupation category
Nurse Practitioners
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Facilitates the development of health care systems that address the needs of culturally diverse populations, providers, and other stakeholders
- Demonstrates cultural competence by incorporating cultural beliefs and practices into all interactions and plans for direct and referred care
- Follows procedures to safely dispose of blood or other biohazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies
- Updates files as needed
- Develops a patient education plan considering the patient's health literacy competencies/learning needs
- Establishes priorities to meet the health care needs of the individual, family, and/or community
- Evaluates social determinants of health that may influence the patient's health and wellness
- Retrieves patient files and records
- Determines the effectiveness of the plan of care with documentation of patient care outcomes
- Demonstrates information literacy skills in complex decision making
- Translates technical and scientific health information appropriate for various users' needs
- Actively participates as a senior member and/or leader of relevant multidisciplinary teams
- Assesses pharmacological effects of various medications
- Obtains a comprehensive relevant health, social and medical history
- Maintains certification and compliance with current state and federal laws
- Identifies patient health risk factors
- Performs or orders preventative and diagnostic procedures based on the patient's age and history
- Minimizes risk to patients and providers at the individual and systems level
- Orders consultations or referrals based on evidence and standards of professional care and shared decisions with patient/family
- Respects the rights of people to determine their own journey through a health/illness episode while ensuring access to accurate and appropriately interpreted information on which to base decisions
- Ensures all necessary documents are present for accurate coding
- Collaborates in planning for transitions across the continuum of care
- Draws blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods
- Archives files as needed
- Selects/prescribes appropriate medication, including dosage, routes and frequency pattern, based upon accurate knowledge of patient characteristics and concurrent therapies
- Is knowledgeable and creative in selection and integration of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment interventions into the management plan in consultation with the patient/client
- Applies EMR system to record keeping
- Rapidly and continuously evaluates the patient's condition and response to therapy and modifies the management plan when necessary to achieve desired patient outcomes
- Evaluates the relationships among access, cost, quality, and safety and their influence on health care
- Maintains current evidence-based knowledge by completing continuing education activities related to the nurse practitioner's specialty and clinical practice
- Assesses the patient's and caregiver's educational needs to provide effective, personalized health care
- Formulates a differential diagnosis(es) based on the history, physical examination and diagnostic test results/ information
- Coaches the patient and caregiver for positive behavioral change
- Applies current evidence-based practice and utilization of best practice standards
- Follows procedures to safely dispose of contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies
- Maintains accurate, legible, and confidential records
- Assures that coding reflects the information provided in the medical record
- Collects fluid or tissue samples, using appropriate collection procedures
- Draws blood from arteries, using arterial collection techniques
- Prescribes or orders appropriate necessary pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions
- Reassesses and modifies the plan with the patient and family as necessary to achieve health outcomes and patient goals
- Evaluates the impact of health care delivery on patients, providers, other stakeholders, and the environment
- Orders and interprets additional necessary diagnostic tests
- Demonstrates an understanding of the interdependence of policy and practice
- Obtains patient consent, certifying medical records, and deciding what information can be released
- Returns files in an appropriate and predictable routine
- Articulates and promotes the nurse practitioner role in clinical, political and professional contexts
- Analyzes organizational structure, functions and resources to improve the delivery of care
- Provides health and wellness education and utilizes community resource opportunities for the individual and/or family
- Exhibits a comprehensive knowledge of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics related to a specific field of clinical practice
- Synthesizes and analyzes the collected data from health history and any diagnostic information
- Evaluates treatment/intervention regimes on completion of the episode of care, in accordance with patient/client-determined outcomes
- Effects health care change using broad based skills including negotiating, consensus-building, and partnering
- Participates in quality assurance review, including the systematic, periodic review of records and plans of care that may result in a quality improvement plan
- Routes records to appropriate person for completion
- Draws blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods
- Performs a thorough physical examination based on age and history
- Demonstrates respect for differences in cultural and social responses to health and illness and incorporates health beliefs of the individual/community into treatment
- Uses technology systems that capture data on variables for the evaluation of nursing care
- Adheres to state and federal regulations on release of medical records
- Uses best available evidence to continuously improve quality of clinical practice
- Integrates appropriate technologies for knowledge management to improve health care
- Advocates for ethical policies that promote access, equity, quality, and cost
- Collects specimens at specific time intervals for tests, such as those assessing therapeutic drug levels
- Collaborates effectively with other health professionals and agencies and makes and accepts referrals as appropriate to specific model of practice
- Establishes effective communication strategies that promote positive multidisciplinary clinical partnerships
- Demonstrates the capacity to conduct research/quality audits as deemed necessary in the practice environment
- Applies knowledge of organizational practices and complex systems to improve health care delivery
- Anticipates variations in practice and is proactive in implementing interventions to ensure quality
