Nurse Practitioner

The Nurse Practitioner is responsible for providing high-quality, patient-centered primary and/or specialty care through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients across the lifespan. They will also play a key role in patient education, health promotion, disease prevention, and the accurate documentation of care in accordance with clinical, regulatory, and organizational standards.

Reports to: Chief Medical Officer

• Serve as a role model and advocate in the delivery of compassionate, comprehensive care to patients and their families.
• Utilize expert knowledge, skills, and abilities to strengthen clinical practice in their specialty throughout the organization.
• Provide expert nursing care to selected patient population.
• Evaluate patient outcomes and revise plans of care accordingly.
• Participate in the development and evaluation of patient and family education materials.
• Promote the professional development of all nurses through specialty training and education.
• Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and ability needed to ensure care appropriate to the age and needs of the population served.
• Facilitate research interpretation and clinical studies to advance clinical practice.
• Gather pertinent information systematically and skillfully from all sources: history, diagnostic tests, comprehensive physical examination, and psychosocial assessment.
• Provide total comprehensive care (supervised by a Physician) to selected clients who satisfy the criteria as outlined in the description of service. Responsible for ante-partum, intra-partum, and inter-conceptual care of these selected clients.
• Differentiate normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
• Assess client and family adaptation coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
• Accurately interpret diagnostic test.
• Communicate with the medical staff of any abnormalities or complications. This consultation may result in co-management or referral of client to medical management.
• Develop problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
• Identify educational needs of the client and family and assist with teaching.
• Incorporate assessment finding into a plan to direct client care.
• Formulate a plan of care in collaboration with the client, family, physician, nursing staff and other members of the health care team which incorporates health care maintenance, teaching, and follow-up care.
• Appropriately prioritize client care.
• Plan and implement appropriate pharmacological therapies.
• Accurately and appropriately perform routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures.
• Initiate referrals based on client and family need.
• Seek appropriate consultation dependent upon client health care needs.
• Accurately collect, document, and communicate patient history, examination findings, clinical assessment, and plan of care in the electronic medical record and with the interdisciplinary care team.
• Identify and promote cost effective, quality client care.
• Establish and maintain a collaborative relationship with health care colleagues.
• Demonstrate effective use of verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills using strategies that promote problem resolution.

• Five to seven years of clinical experience, at least three in the specialty area of care preferred.
• Ability to maintain a high degree of accuracy in carrying out work duties.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Master’s degree in nursing required.
• Current RN license in the State of Illinois required.
• Current APN license in the State of Illinois required.
• Certification as an advanced practice nurse by the appropriate certifying organization required.