Neurosurgery APP w​/UofL Health

UofL Health/UofL Physicians Groupis seeking an APRN for neurosurgery team.

Advanced Practice Registered The Nurse (APRN) facilitates the delivery of quality, evidenced based patient care, while promoting efficiency and effective patient outcomes of Neurosurgical patients. They will demonstrate expert clinical decision making related to neurosurgical health care related issues and diagnosis. The APRN will function in collaboration with the neurosurgery physician group in the care of adult patients with critical illness.

They will perform physical exams, collect and document data, organize diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, order and schedule laboratory studies and professional consults, prescribe appropriate interventions and medications, and provide direct patient care services in the neurosurgical critical care setting. The APRN will contribute to excellence in patient care, research, teaching, consulting and provide leadership within the organization and the nursing profession

Education
:

• Master of Nursing degree from an accredited institution.

Licensure:

• Current licensure in state of Kentucky as an APRN.

Certification:

• National certification as an Adult Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Current DEA certificate without restriction
• Current BLS
• Must be ACLS Certified

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities critical to this role:

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) provides assessment, management and outcome evaluation for patients in inpatient and outpatient settings. The APRN serves as a resource to educate patients, families, professional nurses, and staff; functions as a liaison between patient, family and UofL Physicians staff; and participates in clinical research. The APRN should demonstrate an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competency, sound clinical judgment, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and takes responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation.

• Demonstrates the ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual patient care appropriate to the age of patients served by demonstrative knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Communicates appropriately with the person served regardless of their age.
• Initiative, communicator, problem solver
• Proactive - anticipates and plans for problems before they arise
• Service Excellence - responsive, informs constituents of process, pleasant to work with, educates and provides timely, accurate information
• Organized - manages time effectively, keeps tasks appropriately prioritized
• Flexible - ability to change directions as needed for the good of the department or organization
• Critical Thinking - ability to think through issues and identify appropriate options
• Work Ethic - motivated, diligent, industrious and persistent in the workplace, stays on tasks to completion, works at a fast pace to ensure optimal efficiency
• Maintains a professional appearance at all times.
• Interpersonal - can build effective, strong working relationships with employees, colleagues, management, consultants, and media through trust, communication, and credibility
• Team - ability to work with others, serve others, help others, lead others, mentor others, take directions from others in the interest of moving process and programs forward to the desired outcome.
• Emotional Intelligence - ability to not take issues personal, see the big picture in emotionally charged situations and respond in a mature, professional, composed manner
• Self-Awareness - ability to reflect, understand limitations, and seek appropriate assistance…