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