PRN Nurse Practitioner - Equity Health

Essential Functions

• In addition to the general services outlined by the Board, VIA Nurse Practitioners will also provide the following specific services related to the care of patients:

• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients

• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patients’ specific needs

• Prescribes and/or recommends therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs (including narcotics) in accordance within the ethical principles of medicine.

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

• Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings

• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing necessary education

The following list is a general outline of the basic duties of a Nurse Practitioner:

• Provides comprehensive medical care to VIA patients.

• Serves as a medical resource for VIA staff.

• Assists in staff training.

• Assists in education and training of healthcare professionals and the public.

• Optimizes cost-effective plan of care.

• Assists in the development of policies.

• Maximizes clinical efficiency to ensure reimbursement is optimized.

• Submit billing and documentation according to policy.

• May perform other duties as required