Nurse Practitioner

Essential Functions:

• NPs in skilled nursing facilities

• Review any abnormal vitals and labs and make recommendations and/or notify the attending physician.

• Facility providers Review assigned new admissions and their orders.

• Participate in readmission review meetings and provide a summary of all acute discharges using the acute discharge worksheet and will review patients weekly with IDT (interdisciplinary team)

• 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 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, including but not limited to serving in the first assisting role or working with PCP

• 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

Experience and Education:

• NP Degree from a College or University and two years related experience and/or training.

Physical Requirements:

•  Standing (1/3-2/3), walking (over 1/3-2/3), using hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3), reach with hands and arms (over 1/3), climb and balance (under 1/3), stoop, kneel (1/2-2/3), talk or hear (1/2-2/3),  smell (under 1/3). Lifting up to 10 pounds (over 2/3), Up to 25 pounds (1/3-2/3); Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT  

It is the policy of Bedrock Healthcare Services that wholly complies with the equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.