Description

Job Summary:

• APRN - Advanced Practice Registered Nurse State of Florida Licensure - maintain active and in good standing throughout employment
• Successful completion of Credentialing by NCH Medical Administration required
• ACLS - NCH - ACLS Course required as per department
• NALS - NCH - NRP Program required as per department
• PALS - NCH - PALS Skills Check off required as per department
• CPI - Crisis Prevention Institute - maintain active and in good standing throughout employment within 7 days of hire date - if required for this position or department
• Level II Background Check and Affidavit of Good Moral Character - if required for this position or department
• CPR BLS - NCH - CPR Healthcare Provider Maintain active and in good standing throughout employment

Qualifications

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Acts as a resource for patients, families, staff, or community groups providing education and emotional support.
• Develops, implements, evaluates, monitors, manages, and modify a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Ensures plan of care is of sufficient breadth and depth to guide the interdisciplinary team in achieving the desired health outcomes for patients and families.
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care across departments and promoting optimal patient outcomes.
• Contributes to the development of peers, colleagues, and others to improve patient outcomes and to promote growth of the nursing profession by facilitating collaboration and communication.
• Ensures understanding and skills necessary to provide 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 judgments and decisions about the initiation of orders, procedures, referrals, and treatments.
• Accountable for maintaining current expertise and skills 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 other necessary activities associated with patient care (writing daily progress notes, coordinating clinical care, discharge planning, etc.).
• Writes orders, monitors/alters drug therapies, and performs other procedures with education and experience within established protocol in collaborative relationship with a Physician(s).
• Provides continuous supervision, observation of behavioral health patients, and adheres to non-violent crisis intervention strategies (CPI).
  

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• 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 solves to formulate a plan of care and evaluate the patient's response to care.
• Ability to interpret, adapt and react calmly under stressful conditions

(EOE DFW)

10/15/19

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