Geriatric Nurse Practitioner

Overview

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.

• 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.

Salary: $91769 per year