Nurse Practitioner I Job
Location: Newark, Delaware
Description: Christiana Care is currently interviewing Nurse Practitioner I Job right now, this career will be depute in Delaware. For detail informations about this career opportunity please read the description below. Job Title: Nurse Practitioner I
Location: Newark, DE
General Description:
Christiana Care Health System is one of the nation’s largest ( >1,000 bed! s) not-for-profit teaching institutions, serving all of Delaware and neighboring areas of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey- with over 54,000 admissions, 7,200 newborn deliveries, and 143,000 emergency department visits annually. Christiana Care is centrally located from major cities such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
This position is mostly day shift and will require some evenings and weekends. The office is open four evenings a week until 7 p.m. as well as Saturday mornings from 8:00 to 12:00.
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
- To assist the physician in examining and treating patients including but not limited to initial nursing assessment vital signs immunization, and performing age appropriate test.
- Assesses and documents patient and family response to intervention
- Demonstrates ability to carry out critical skill as outlined in procedures and spec! ific standards
- Identifies each patient prior to admin! istering medications and providing care and treatment
- Performs technical skills and administers medications in a safe and efficient manner
- Establishes priorities based on patient needs and emergent care
- Provides supervision and direction to other team members. Delegates task according to capabilities and scope of responsibilities.
- Ability to independently review patient problems including, but not limited to medication refills, determining the need of follow up care and referring appropriately to the physician according to policy.
- Performs all prescribed laboratory test, sends to appropriate laboratory, receives and interprets laboratory values, and notifies physician of results.
- Provides patient education and counseling to patients and their families.
- Participates in chronic disease management of patients.
- Manage patients’ chronic disease.
- Provides diabetic disease management to patients. Pe! rforms assigned work safely, adhering to established departmental safety rules and practices. Reports to the appropriate personnel, in a timely fashion, any unsafe activities, hazards, or safety violations that may cause injury to oneself, other employees, patients, and visitors.
- Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to provide care appropriate to (neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients), including knowledge of growth and development, that ability to obtain and interpret information to identify patient needs, and provide the care needed.
- Performs other responsibilities as assigned.
- Master's degree in Nursing with Family Nurse Practitioner specialty.
- Licensed or license eligibility in Delaware
- Prescriptive Authority required
Job Classification: Professional
Job Requisition #: 31831BR
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This career will be opened on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:45:19 GMT
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