Nurse Practitioner

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Time Type : Full time

Department : Pediatrics

All Locations :

10 Gove Street - Taylor Building

Position Summary :

The Nurse Practitioner may approach patients between the age of 0 to 20 and with all types of conditions; elicit histories; perform examinations; order, perform and interpret diagnostic studies; order and perform therapeutic procedures; instruct and counsel patients regarding physical and mental health issues; respond to life threatening situations; and facilitate the appropriate referral of patients; consistent with his or her supervising physician's scope of expertise and responsibility delegated to him or her by the supervising physician.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

Obtains comprehensive and problem focused health history

Performs a comprehensive and problem focused physical exam

Orders and interprets screening and diagnostic tests

Demonstrates critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in clinical decision making.

Communicates with patients re : clinical findings

Initiates appropriate and timely consultations (NP, PA & MD)

Qualifications and Requirements :

MA License as Nurse Practitioner

BLS / ALS / PALS Certification as required by dept

Will require one evening a week and 1 weekend day a month.