Description

• Acts as resource for patients, families, staff, or community groups, providing education and emotional support. 
• Develops, implements, evaluates, monitors, and modifies a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes. 
• Ensures the plan of care is of sufficient breadth and depth to guide the interdisciplinary team in achieving the desired health outcomes for patients and families. 
• Promotes optimal patient outcomes by considering factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care across departments. 
• Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues, and others to improve patient outcomes and to promote growth of the nursing profession by facilitating a process of collaboration. 
• Responsible for providing care appropriate to the developmental level of the patient. 
• Generates, collects, and integrates data from a wide variety of sources in order to make clinical decisions about the initiation of appropriate orders, procedures, referrals, and treatments setting. 
• Responsible for maintaining abreast of current advanced nursing scope of practice issues in order to facilitate a high quality of clinical performance and to promote professional growth. 
• Models professional verbal and written communication with the interdisciplinary team members involved in the ongoing management of patients to optimize patient outcomes. 
• Participates in all necessary activities associated with patient care (e.g., writing daily progress notes, coordinating clinical care, and discharge planning). 
• Writes orders, monitors and alters drug therapies, and performs other necessary procedures within the framework of an established protocol entered into a collaborative relationship with an MD. 
• Provides inpatient consults and rounds on post-operative inpatient patients in a combination of inpatient hospital and outpatient office setting. Provides care to same day walk in visits. 
• Returns patient/family phone calls and fills/renews prescriptions. Responsible for answering service calls when MD on call. Assists office staff with clinical questions and coordination.
• Establishes post-op office visits to improve next available day and increase new patient evaluations for MDs. 
• Assists with coordinating hearing evaluations, sleep studies, and allergy testing .
• Provides continuous supervision, observation of behavioral health patients, and adheres to non-violent crisis intervention strategies (CPI).

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Qualifications

Minimum Job Requirements

• APRN State of Florida Licensure - maintain active and in good standing throughout employment
• Certification by the American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC), American Academy of Nurse Practitioner Certification Program (AANP), or Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB)
• American Heart Association PALS maintain active and in good standing throughout employment
• American Heart Association BLS maintain active and in good standing throughout employment
• Level II Background Check
• Successful completion of Credentialing by NCHS Medical Administration

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Board certification in specialty area (Pediatric or Family) preferred
• Two years' experience in an surgical outpatient setting preferred
• Able to relate cooperatively and constructively with patients, families, and co-workers
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing
• Able to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information
• Ability to problem solve to formulate a plan of care and evaluate the patient's response to care
• Ability to interpret, adapt to, and react calmly under stressful conditions

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