(Archived) Nurse Practitioner Needed in NY

Medcare Staffing has partnered with a client in New York seeking a Nurse Practitioner for full-time employment.

Responsibilities Include:

• Provides anticipatory guidance, screening and health education to patients to promote and maintain health.
• Initiates treatment for patients with commonly occurring health problems which lie within the nurse specialist's scope of practice by using a systematic approach to history and physical appraisal of patients and/or families through clinical judgment of evaluated data.
• Prescribes, coordinates, delegates and evaluates care.
• Prescribes medications listed in the approved institutional formulary as a function delegated by the physician consultant(s) to the practice.
• Monitors patients with stabilized long term or chronic illness.
• Plans appropriate care utilizing community resources and acts as a liaison by relaying information necessary for continuity of care to other health professionals and agencies.
• Instructs individual and/or families or groups about health or defined health problems.
• Participates in Quality Assurance activities.
• Participates in research projects.
• Promotes guest relations; anticipates and responds to the needs of others; provides assistance in a courteous, quick manner; treats others with care and respect maintaining privacy, confidentiality and dignity. Maintains a professional appearance and a clean, safe environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science or higher degree programs in nursing, diploma programs in nursing and associate degree programs in nursing. Master's degree in nursing with advanced skills in physical assessment preferred.
• Minimum of three years clinical nursing experience and/or two years post masters clinical nursing experience desirable.
• Meeting the basic education requirements specified above, applicants must have successfully completed all requirements for a masters degree (or equivalent), or two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education in nursing, or one year of specialized experience equivalent.
• Skill in making diagnosis, selecting and providing appropriate treatment for medical or surgical emergencies (life or death or severe injury), as indicated until emergency assistance arrives.
• Ability to assess a patient's condition and to initiate appropriate treatment.
• Knowledge of pharmaceuticals to treat disease and illnesses, to include a knowledge of the mechanism of action, side effects, toxic nature, and drug interactions of medications;
• Ability to perform and interpret diagnostic tests in order to determine therapeutic treatment plans.
• Ability to deal effectively with patients.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to work productively with patient, families, nursing staff, and other departments.
• Must become competent in the use of computerized word-processing, database, spreadsheet, and presentation programs.

Please contact me if interested.

Tanecia Janice

Recruiter | MedCare Staffing, Inc.
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