Full-Time
Nurse Practitioner
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Regional hospital and clinical care
No salary listed
Natchitoches, LA, USA
In Person
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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- Graduate of an accredited Advanced Practice Registered Nurse program.
- Successfully pass the certifying examination and obtain approval from the Louisiana State Board of Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing, to perform medical services under an approved Collaborative Practice Agreement.
- Maintain current Advanced Practice Registered Nurse status in Louisiana.
- Maintain current Basic Cardiac Life Support certification.
- Maintain current Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
- Demonstrate basic computer knowledge and proficiency with basic computer programs and operations.
- Apply technical nursing principles, concepts, and techniques.
- Interview and communicate effectively with patients, families, physicians, coworkers, and other departments.
- Use initiative, decision-making, and independent judgment.
- Monitor and interpret patients' hemodynamic status.
- Recognize cardiac dysrhythmias through cardiac monitoring.
- Administer skills taught in nursing training.
- Interpret electrocardiograms.
- Apply infection control procedures.
- Provide age-appropriate care.
- Maintain patient confidentiality and handle confidential information appropriately.
- Work regular hours and weekends when necessary.
- Function flexibly and remain organized under stressful conditions, frequent interruptions, and competing priorities.
- Provide direct patient care, evaluate outcomes, consult specialists as required, and adjust care processes to ensure optimal patient care.
- Coordinate care planning with other disciplines and provide direct and indirect patient care.
- Triage every patient entering the clinic safely, rapidly, and accurately.
- Determine care priorities based on physical and psychosocial needs and factors affecting patient flow.
- Communicate changes in patients' status, symptoms, and diagnostic study results to physicians.
- Respond quickly and accurately to patients' conditions and responses to treatment.
- Perform, dictate, or write history and physical assessments and reassessments according to policy.
- Dictate and write progress notes.
- Dictate discharge summaries.
- Initiate and transcribe sponsoring physician orders through verbal communication to the nurse.
- Initiate appropriate evaluation and assist with emergency management for cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, burns, hemorrhage, and other emergencies.
- Review patient records to determine health status.
- Participate in professional development to maintain administrative and clinical competence.
- Complete annual education requirements and maintain regulatory requirements.
- Attend annual reviews and department in-services as scheduled.
- Maintain a cooperative working relationship with physicians, departments, and staff.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Current Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification is preferred but not required.
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center is a rural health system anchored by a 96-bed hospital in northwest Louisiana. It provides emergency, medical, surgical, intensive, obstetric, behavioral health, diagnostic and rehabilitation services, supported by clinics and other care facilities across the region. The organization serves residents of Natchitoches and neighboring parishes while coordinating inpatient, outpatient and emergency medical care. Its workforce spans physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, technicians and administrative teams across a community-based delivery network.
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