Advanced Practice Provider - Child Neurology

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The Nurse Practitioner job demonstrates a high level of expertise in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the complex responses of individuals, families, or communities to actual or potential health problems, prevention of illness and injury, maintenance of wellness, and provision of comfort. This role assists the health care team with the prevention of illness and injury, maintenance of wellness, and provision of comfort.

The Nurse Practitioner job continues to perform many of the same interventions used in basic nursing practice. The difference in this practice relates to a greater depth and breadth of knowledge, a greater degree of synthesis of data, and complexity of skills and intervention. ANA’s Scope and Standards of Advanced Practice Registered Nursing (1996).

Essential Job Functions 

Performance Expectation: Pertains to Staff in Licensed Nursing Positions ONLY

Employee must complete 15 contact hours of Continuing Nursing Education during this evaluation cycle. 

Failure to achieve the required number of contact hours will result in the employee ineligible to receive an overall performance rating above "Fully Meets". 

Performance Expectation: Expert Coaching & Guidance 

The APN-Practitioner is a strong proponent of coaching and guidance as evidenced by: 

Planning and implementing steps to resolve problems affecting patient care quality and evaluates results. 

Role modeling patient advocacy. 

Challenging and adapting systems to maximize the benefits of patient care. 

Demonstrates advanced assessment skills in assessment, management of disease, and treatment-related side effects. 

Recommending goals and interventions for medical and nursing plan of care plans based on current literature. 

Promoting individual involvement and development of others. 

Demonstrating expert knowledge to coordinate patient care across the continuum of services: inpatient, ambulatory, and home health through the patient’s trajectory of illness. 

Developing and evaluating educational materials and teaching interventions for staff, patients/caregivers, and the community. 

Fostering skill development of others 

Assessment, diagnosis, and monitoring to improve the skills of students and staff. 

Mentoring the APN’s role in the health system to promote quality patient outcomes. 

Performance Expectation: Consultation 

The APN-Practitioner maintains a therapeutic relationship with the patients, caregivers, and staff throughout the health care continuum. 

Consultation and support is evidenced by: 

The ability to organize and facilitate patient support groups as needed. 

Serving as a liaison, translator and negotiator for staff, patients and families. 

Utilizing experiences and resources to staff regarding routine and unusual therapeutic interventions. 

Promoting teamwork through effective communication and feedback to team members. 

Recognizes team as integral to individual effectiveness and quality patient outcomes. 

Identifying unit, departmental/regional and hospital issues. 

Suggests changes in an effort to connect system problems. 

Functions as a consultant in the multi-disciplinary team. 

Performance Expectation: Research Skills 

The APN-Practitioner participates in clinical practices for a population of patients based on the application of clinical research findings and evidence-based practices as evidenced by: 

Identifying areas of need for nursing or medical research. 

Actively seeks/participates in and/or monitors this research. 

Utilizing current research to develop, implement and evaluate critical paths and standards of care for identified patient populations. 

Incorporating research findings into practice. 

Contributing to the profession through participation in research, publications, consultation and/or educational activities. 

Performance Expectation: Clinical & Professional Leadership 

The APN-Practitioner works with colleagues and or professional organizations in the advancement of clinical practice and fosters professional leadership behaviors as evidenced by: 

Consistently using nurse/patient relationship to positively affect the health care experience and promote adaptation to changing health status. 

Utilizing the Performance Improvement Process to address clinical practice and system changes within the organization. 

Seeking out opportunities for professional growth through organizational affiliations and certification in specialty area. 

Demonstrating mastery of nursing care of specialty populations. 

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