Acute Nurse Practitioner - Inpatient Abdominal Transplant

Must have ICU experience.

• Assessment:
  Assesses complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients for urgent and emergent conditions, uses relevant data to evaluate physiologic instability, and formulates plan of care.
• Clinical Interventions:
  Performs therapeutic interventions to stabilize acute and critical health problems, analyzes indications, contradictions, risk of complications, and cost‑benefits, and follows Scope of Practice and credentialing/privileging approvals.
• Plan of Care:
  Manages the plan of care through evaluation, modification, and documentation according to patient response to therapy; optimizes patient outcomes; incorporates health promotion, health protection, and injury prevention measures; facilitates transitions between and within health care settings.
• Education:
  
  Serves as an educational resource to patients/families, nursing staff, and provider team; acts as a consultant to multidisciplinary health care team members.
• Professional Development:
  Participates in scholarly activities such as research and education; maintains required competencies; identifies learning needs; serves as a preceptor and mentor for nurses, APPs, students, and other health care providers.
• Patient Safety and Quality:
  Demonstrates commitment to patient safety, speaks up about safety issues, changes practice to enhance safety, and shares errors or potential errors through system reporting mechanisms.

• Master’s degree from an approved Nurse Practitioner program – required.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) – American Heart Association.
• Nurse Practitioner Certification.
• Registered Nursing License (RN) – Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
• Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) – Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
• Additional facility‑specific licensure and certification (see ADDENDUM).

• Medical skills relevant to acute and critical care.
• Computer software skills: ICD‑10 and CPT‑4.
• Communication and guest relation skills.

Does not formally supervise employees.

• Medium physical requirements: exerts 20–50 pounds occasionally, 10–25 pounds frequently, and greater than negligible up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
• Physical demand requirements exceed those for light work.

Variable hours.

LCMC Health is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.