- SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for providing highly specialized medical patient care, diagnosis, and treatment the geriatric population of patients. The geriatric nurse practitioner will promote a healthy and active lifestyle and pair patients with resources and treatment plans to attain and maintain well-being and independent living for the geriatric patient population.
- CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Providing robust, well-informed preventative treatment.
- Diagnosing innocuous and harmful physiological anomalies.
- Proposing resource-specific treatment regimens.
- Pinpointing assistive gadgets that alleviate pressing health-related symptoms.
- Fitting or instructing on the positioning of assistive technologies.
- Gauging the applicability of prescribed treatments.
- Reconfiguring ineffective regimens with urgency.
- Issuing pertinent referral documents when needed.
- Properly code diagnosis and treatment and updating their charts.
- Advocate for each patient's needs.
- Educate patients and their families on healthy eating and mental exercise.
- Engage patients in their treatment and wellness objectives to foster long-term independence.
- Provide support and care for patients with terminal illnesses, assisting them and families during end-of-life decisions.
- Provide for organization and maintenance of an effective system of medical care with emphasis on wellness and prevention of illness.
- Provide an effective communication link between the Chief Medical Officer and non-management employees of the medical department.
- Performs studies/analysis to determine impact for:
- Healthcare outcomes.
- Policy change positives or negatives.
- Departmental efficiencies
- Other areas, as requested by the Chief Medical Officer and/or Chief Executive Officer to assist in administrative decision-making.
- Supervision of students.
- Diagnosis and treatment of patients.
- Perform EKG and pulmonary function test interpretation.
- Non-invasive evaluation of gynecologic patients.
- Treatment of uncomplicated dermatological conditions.
- Treatment of acute back and neck pain, bursitis, tendonitis, tennis elbow, joint aspirations, abscess, etc.
- Perform excision and removal of foreign bodies from eyes and ears.
- Perform suturing of simple lacerations.
- Perform at the level and within the privileges bound by the nurse practitioner license.
- Communicate back to management the attitudes, suggestions, and complaints of employees in a constructive business manner.
- Lead and motivate the employees to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.
- Assist in the orientation, training, and supervision of the Medical Department support staff.
- Lead by example holding themselves to the standards of conduct and performance that they command of peers and subordinates.
