Nurse Practitioner - Women's Services

JOB SUMMARY

The Nurse Practitioner
- Women’s Services is a licensed independent practitioner who is responsible for managing health problems and coordinating age-appropriate health care for the patient. S/he is part of the innovative care team that will meet the individual needs of the patient and their family. The APN practices in accordance with MOPH Department of Healthcare Practitioner rules and regulations and the APNs professional body’s standards of care providing evidence-based best practice care in an age-appropriate care model.

Included in their scope of practice is performing histories, examinations, ordering appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic tests and procedures along with prescribing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. The Nurse Practitioner
- Women’s Services manages chronic patient conditions. S/he is instrumental in providing patient and family education. The Nurse Practitioner
- Women’s Services is an active and respected member of the Healthcare team designed to meet the individual needs of the patient and her family. The Nurse Practitioner
- Women’s Services takes key responsibility as a patient advocate and ensuring referral of the patient when necessary.

The Nurse Practitioner
- Women’s Services provides comprehensive, patient-centered healthcare services to women across the lifespan. The role focuses on preventive care, reproductive health, antenatal care, contraception counseling, menopause management, urogynecology services, and urodynamic assessment.

• Knowledge of advanced nursing practice must be at a formal level of education including board certification. Applicant must have a professional mastery of the scope of professional practice.
• Undertakes considerable independent judgment with direct impact on the patient’s health, well-being and satisfaction within authority and own job scope.
• Works as part of the provider team, the APN sees patients within their scope of practice creating other care opportunities for the physicians

• Functions independently to evaluate and treat patients with complex acute, critical and chronically ill patients, according to written guidelines as defined by the nurse practitioner’s professional scope of practice as defined by the MOPH Department of Healthcare Practitioner and in adherence with Sidra’s agreed upon scopes of practice.
• Performs age-appropriate histories on new patients.
• Performs physical examinations including pelvic and breast examinations, including pap smear sampling.
• Provides routine antenatal assessments and monitoring for low-risk pregnancies.
• Conducts maternal health screening including blood pressure monitoring, fetal assessment, and risk evaluation, including DVT risk assessment.
• Educates expectant mothers on pregnancy health, nutrition, lifestyle, and birth preparation.
• Identifies pregnancy complications and refer to obstetricians when necessary.
• Provides counseling on contraceptive options including hormonal, non-hormonal, and long-acting reversible contraception.
• Prescribes and manages contraception in accordance with clinical guidelines.
• Inserts and removes contraceptive devices where credentialed (e.g., IUDs, implants).
• Supports patients in family planning decisions and reproductive health management.
• Assess and manage symptoms related to perimenopause and menopause.
• Provides counseling on hormonal and non-hormonal management options.
• Prescribe and monitor hormone replacement therapy (HRT) where appropriate.
• Provides guidance on bone health, cardiovascular risk, and lifestyle interventions during midlife.
• Performs pertinent physical exams with assessment of the normal and abnormal findings on new patients
• Assess and manage pelvic floor disorders including urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
• Performs urodynamic assessments and assist with diagnostic evaluation of urinary dysfunction.
• Provides conservative management strategies such as pelvic floor therapy education and bladder training.
• Collaborates with urogynecology specialists for complex cases and surgical referrals.
• Delivers preventive healthcare services including Cervical cancer screening (Pap smear / HPV…