ADVANCED PRACTICE PROVIDER - URGENT CARE

Job Summary

The Urgent Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP) functions independently within parameters delineated by the supervising physician. The Pediatric Urgent Care APP will assess diagnose and mange episodic illness, injuries, and acute exacerbations of chronic disease of the pediatric patient. Responsibilities include performing physician examinations, ordering and interpreting radiological and laboratory tests, treating minor injuries, prescribing medications, documenting patient care services within the EMR, and performing within the APP's scope of practice and demonstrated through competency. The Urgent Care APP reports to the APP Urgent Care Manager.

Job Specific Duties

• Acts as a resource for patients, families, staff, or community groups providing education and emotional support.
• Develops, implements, evaluates, monitors, manages, and modifies a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Ensures plan of care is of sufficient breadth and depth to guide the interdisciplinary team in achieving the desired health outcomes for patients and families.
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care across departments and promoting optimal patient outcomes.
• Contributes to the development of peers, colleagues, and others to improve patient outcomes and to promote growth of the nursing profession by facilitating collaboration and communication.
• Ensures understanding and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the developmental level of the patient.
• Generates, collects, and integrates data from a wide variety of sources in order to make clinical judgments and decisions about the initiation of orders, procedures, referrals, and treatments.
• Accountable for maintaining current expertise and skills in order to facilitate a high quality of clinical performance and to promote professional growth.
• Models professional verbal and written communication with the interdisciplinary team members involved in the ongoing management of patients to optimize patient outcomes.
• Participates in other necessary activities associated with patient care (writing daily progress notes, coordinating clinical care, discharge planning, etc.).
• Writes orders, monitors / alters drug therapies, and performs other procedures with education and experience within established protocol in collaborative relationship with a Physician(s).

Provides continuous supervision, observation of behavioral health patients, and adheres to non-violent crisis intervention strategies (CPI).

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Qualifications

Minimum Job Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Job

: Nursing - Clinical

Primary Location

: Florida-Miami-Nicklaus Children's Hospital - Main Hospital Campus

Department

: NCPS-UCC ADMINISTRATION-3100-490950Job Status : Full Time