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Nurse Practitioner, NICU
Urbana, IL
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Job Description
Nurse Practitioner - NICU
- Full Time Exempt Day/Night
Position Summary: The Nurse Practitioner provides health and medical care in the ED. The nurse practitioner performs comprehensive health assessments and promotes wellness and prevention of illness and injury. The nurse practitioner develops differential diagnoses, orders and conducts, supervises and interprets diagnostic and lab tests, and prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments in the direct management of acute and chronic illness and disease. The Clinical Nurse Specialist is a clinical expert in evidenced-based nursing practice within the Med/Surg area. The CNS designs, implements and evaluates population-based programs of care, provides leadership in advancing the practice of nursing to achieve quality, cost-effective patient outcomes and provides leadership for multidisciplinary groups in designing and implementing innovative alternative solutions that address system problems and/or patient care issues.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
** Assessment - The advanced practice registered nurse initiates and interprets diagnostic tests and procedures relevant to the patient's current status.
** Diagnosis - Systematically compares and contrasts clinical findings with normal and abnormal variations and development events in formulating a differential diagnosis.
** Diagnosis - Utilizes complex information obtained during interview, examination, and diagnostic procedures in identifying diagnoses.
** Outcomes Identification - Reflects scientific evidence that is achievable through implementation of evidenced based practices.
** Outcomes Identification - Reflects ethical considerations, cost and clinical effectiveness, patient satisfaction, and continuity and consistency among providers.
** Planning - Identifies assessment, diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions within the plan that reflect current evidence, including data, research, literature, and expert clinical knowledge.
** Planning - Selects or designs strategies to meet the multifaceted needs of complex patients.
** Planning - Reflects within the plan the synthesis of patients' values and beliefs regarding nursing and medical therapies.
** Implementation - Facilitates utilization of systems and community resources to implement the plan.
** Implementation - Supports collaboration with nursing colleagues and other disciplines to implement the plan.
** Implementation - Incorporates new knowledge and strategies to initiate change in nursing care practices if desired outcomes are not achieved.
** Coordination of Care - Provides leadership in the coordination of multidisciplinary health care for integrated delivery of patient care services.
** Coordination of Care - Synthesizes data and information to prescribe necessary system and community support measures, including environmental modifications.
** Coordination of Care - Coordinates system and community resources that enhance delivery of care across continuums.
** Health Teaching & Health Promotion - Synthesizes empirical evidence on risk behaviors, learning theories, behavioral change theories, motivational theories, and epidemiology.
** Health Teaching & Health Promotion - Designs health information and patient education appropriate to the patient's developmental level, learning needs, readiness to learn, and cultural values and beliefs.
** Consultation - Synthesizes clinical data, theoretical frameworks, and evidence when providing consultation.
** Consultation - Facilitates the effectiveness of a consultation by involving the patient in decision-making and negotiating role responsibilities.
** Consultation - Communicates consultation recommendations that facilitate change.
** Prescriptive Authority & Treatment - The advanced practice registered nurse uses prescriptive authority, procedures, referrals, and treatments in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations.
** Prescriptive Authority & Treatment - Prescribes evidence based treatments and procedures considering the patient's comprehensive healthcare needs.
** Prescriptive Authority & Treatment - Prescribes pharmacologic agents based on a current knowledge of pharmacology and physiology.
** Prescriptive Authority & Treatment - Prescribes specific pharmacological agents and/or treatments based on clinical indicators, the patient's status and needs, and the results of diagnostic and laboratory tests.
** Prescriptive Authority & Treatment - Monitors and evaluates therapeutic and potential adverse effects of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments.
** Prescriptive Authority & Treatment - Provides patients with information about intended effects and potential adverse effects of proposed prescriptive therapies.
** Prescriptive Authority & Treatment - Provides information about costs, alternative treatments and procedures, as appropriate.
** Evaluation - Evaluates the accuracy of the diagnosis and effectiveness of the interventions in relationship to the patient's attainment of expected outcomes.
** Evaluation - Synthesizes the results of the evaluation analyses to determine the impact of the plan on the affected patients families, groups, communities, and institutions.
** Quality of Practice - Seeks and maintains professional certification if available in the area of expertise.
** Quality of Practice - Incorporates new knowledge to initiate changes in nursing care practice if desired outcomes are not achieved.
** Quality of Practice - Designs quality improvement initiatives to evaluate the need for change.
** Quality of Practice - Evaluates the practice environment and quality of nursing care rendered in relation to existing evidence, identifying opportunities for the generation and use of research.
** Practice Evaluation - The advanced practice registered nurse seeks feedback regarding one's own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues and others.
** Education - Uses current healthcare research to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
** Education - Seeks experiences and formal and independent learning activities to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and knowledge.
** Collegiality - Models expert practice to interdisciplinary team members and healthcare consumers.
** Collegiality - Mentors and precepts other nurses and colleagues as appropriate.
** Collegiality - Participates with interdisciplinary teams that contribute to role development and advance nursing practice and healthcare.
** Ethics - Informs the patient of the risks, benefits, and outcomes of healthcare regimens
** Ethics - Participates as appropriate on ethics committees.
** Ethics - Participates in multidisciplinary teams that evaluate ethical risks, benefits, and outcomes.
** Collaboration - Partners with other disciplines to enhance patient care through interdisciplinary activities, such as education, consultation, management, technological development, or research opportunities.
** Collaboration - Facilitates an interdisciplinary process with other members of the healthcare team.
** Research - Contributes to nursing knowledge by conducting or synthesizing research that discovers, examines and evaluates knowledge, theories, criteria, and creative approaches to improve healthcare practice.
** Research - Formally disseminates research findings through activities such as presentations, publications, consultation, and journal clubs.
** Resource Utilization - Utilizes organizational and community resources to formulate a multidisciplinary plan of care.
** Resource Utilization - Develops innovative solutions for patient care problems that address effective resource utilization and maintenance of quality.
** Resource Utilization - Develops evaluation strategies to demonstrate cost effectiveness, cost benefit, and efficiency factors associated with nursing practice.
** Leadership - Works to influence policy making bodies to improve patient care.
** Leadership - Provides leadership in the coordination of the healthcare team.
** Leadership - Initiates and revises protocols or guidelines to reflect accepted changes in care management or to address emerging problems.
** Leadership - Promotes communication of information and advancement of the professional through writing, publishing, and presentations for professional or lay audiences.
** Leadership - Designs innovations to effect change in practice.
** Leadership - Actively participates in professional organizations.
Qualifications: Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree
Graduate of professional school of nursing; M.S. required; Illinois licensure.
Education Preferences: Master's Degree Preferred
Required Licensure/
Certifications: M.S. required; Illinois licensure.
Experience: Four years professional nursing experience, including two years nursing experience.
Other Skills: Demonstrated ability for problem-solving and decision-making.
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Experience Required
3 plus years exp
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Last Update
June 10, 2008
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