AddressPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Initiates and provides medical interventions in response to acute changes in patient conditions.
- Provides educational services to nursing and ancillary departments and serves as an educational consultant on clinical practice issues.
- Applies evidence based practices to achieve multidisciplinary collaboration to facilitate continuity of care.
- Contributes to the satisfaction of the medical staff by collaborating with physicians to deliver best care.
- Recognizes and utilizes opportunities to act as a change agent by introducing nursing practice innovations.
- Evaluates nursing practices associated with specialty area, defines needs/problems with patient care and makes constructive suggestions that creates a positive patient outcome.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Completion of a formal post-basic education program from or formally affiliated with an accredited college, university or hospital (Before July 1, 1998) or a graduate degree from an accredited college or university (After July 1, 1998) with a concentration in the appropriate advanced practice nursing clinical specialty area.
- Board certification by a national recognized certifying board in the appropriate population focus
- Current or compact RN license in appropriate state
- Appropriate APRN license or document of recognition in appropriate state
EXPERIENCE
- One year experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
- Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- And
- APN Controlled Substance - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- And
- Full Practice Authority APRN Control Substance - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- And
- Full Practice Authority APRN - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
State of Work Location: Missouri
- Nurse Practitioner - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
- Or
- Registered Nurse Practitioner - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
- And
- Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
- Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber (APNP) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
