Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

CORE JOB SUMMARY                                                               

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) delivers medical care to a wide variety of patients. The APRN also examines and treats patients independently and in autonomous collaboration with other health care professionals. Ensures proper illness and injury care and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. May prescribe medications and order diagnostic tests. Advises patients about continuing care.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS                     

• Performs and documents complete physical examinations and comprehensive health histories.

• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for patients.

• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient’s age-specific needs.

• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities

• Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability.

• Assists with the provision of care in accordance with facility, state, and federal regulations.

• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.

• Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring,

• and discharging patients.

• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.

• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.

• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS     

Education:

Master’s degree in relevant field

Certification and Licensing:

Valid State of Florida APRN License

Experience:

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:

• Ability to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions.

• Skill in completing assignments accurately and with attention to detail.

• Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work under pressure while meeting deadlines.

• Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment.

• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form.

DEPARTMENT ADDENDUM

Department Specific Functions                                                                         

Provides care to a select group of patients by determining and rendering advanced nursing and medical interventions.

Assessment/Diagnosis: Assesses patients by interviewing/examining the patient, reviewing the patient’s medical history/chart, physician’s diagnosis and orders, diagnostic test results (lab, x-ray, MRI, etc.) to determine medical diagnosis, plan of care and monitor patient’s progress.

• Performs physical assessment.

• Reviews the medical record including physician/consultation notes, lab and diagnostic tests results. Formulates medical diagnoses based on above data.

• Collaborates with physician by discussing assessment and diagnoses.

Planning/Outcomes: Develops a plan of care from the assessment/diagnoses and physician collaboration.

• Identifies expected outcomes based on the assessment/diagnoses and physician collaboration.

• Includes interventions in plan of care that reflects expected outcomes

• Documents plan of care.

Implementation: Institutes necessary actions as outlined in plan of care.

• Collaborates with team members to ensure implementation of plan as described.

• Implements physician orders per protocols.

• Communicates plan of care to team members.

Evaluation: Evaluates the patient’s progress in attaining expected outcomes by follow-up with collaborating physician.

• Evaluates as warranted by patient’s condition, daily, by assessment of physical findings, lab and diagnostic test results.

• Formulates new plan of care as determined by evaluation.

Consultation/Collaboration: Consults with collaborating physician(s) on implementation, evaluation and revision of treatment plan.

• Coordinates care with interdisciplinary health care team in the development and implementation of the plan of care.

• Facilitates communication between the nursing staff and physicians with leadership skills and on-unit mentoring

• Collaborates with members of the education department and units’ leadership team in planning educational opportunities and competency evaluation for nursing staff members.

Professional Accountability:

• Participates in 360° peer review process.

• Submits annual protocols revision to state nursing and medical boards.

• Maintains national certification and Licensure.

• Develops new or innovative systems.

• Teaches-Lectures in continuing education program.

• Presents multidisciplinary patient care conference.

• Participates in and or coordinates community education program.

• Serves as a preceptor to advanced practice nurses.

• Authors or contributes to an article for publication in a professional journal or book.

• Leads a hospital committee.

• Co-leads collaborative team in developing a new service or strategic performance improvement.

Education: Serves as a mentor to the nursing staff, thus facilitating the development from novice to expert.

• Identifies staff learning needs and provides learning experiences to meet those needs.

• Provides education related to healthcare needs to patients and families, including issues related to health promotion and disease prevention.

• Provides patient/family education regarding disease processes, treatment options, treatment outcomes, possible complications, medications, discharge planning and lifestyle modification.

• Integrates current knowledge of professional issues, trends in health care and technological advances into scope of practice

Leadership: Serves as a role model to staff.

• Identifies opportunities and challenges to promote advanced practice model.

• Ensures and coordinates standardization of advanced practice processes between patient care services and collaborative teams.

Research: Initiates and/or participates in unit and/or hospital research activities.

• Utilizes research findings and nursing theory in clinical practice.

• Promotes evidenced based/knowledge based nursing practice.

• Collects data for patient and program evaluation and participates in quality assessment and improvement activities.

Department Specific Qualifications                                                             

Education:

• Master of Science Degree in Nursing; Florida Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner license.

Certification and Licensing:

• American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification in specialty area.

• ONS Chemo Certification required

Experience:

• Minimum 1-2 years’ experience as an RN in an acute setting.

• Oncology experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes: