Per Diem APRN - UHealth Tower ENT

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - PRN

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - PRN delivers medical care to a wide variety of patients. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - PRN is also examines and treats patients independently and in autonomous collaboration with other health care professionals. Ensures proper illness and injury care and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. May prescribe medications and order diagnostic tests. Advises patients about continuing care.

Core Job Functions

• Performs and documents complete physical examinations and comprehensive health histories.
• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for patients.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient's age-specific needs.
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
• Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability.
• Assists with the provision of care in accordance with facility, state, and federal regulations.
• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.
• Facilitates the patient's transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.
• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Core Qualifications

• Education:
  
  Master's degree in relevant field required
• Experience:
  
  No previous experience required
• Certification and Licensing:
  Valid State of Florida APRN license required Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Learning Agility:
  Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork:
  Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency:
  Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication:
  Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Department Specific Function

• Participates in Patients Rounds with the Surgical Teams:
  Head and Neck, Surgical Oncology, Neurological surgery, Orthopaedic surgery, Cardiac surgery, Thoracic surgery, Urology.
• Completes history, perform physical examination, review medical records and laboratory reports, interprets diagnostic tests, formulate risk assessment, completes progress notes, and plan for surgery and/or post operative care in conjunction with supervising physician/anesthesiologist, and document in electronic medical record (Epic/UChart)
• Work as part of the interdisciplinary team to execute these daily plans, and acts as a liaison between Nursing and Surgical services to ensure proper follow-through on all patients
• Provides education to nursing, patients & family on wound care / drain care or removal / tracheostomy tube care or change / feeding tube care/line care or change as part of the daily post operative care to facilitate transition to home care.
• Participates in the quality control program while providing continuous assessment and improvement of the quality of care and/or service.
• See consultations in the inpatient unit/Emergency room as needed to facilitate efficient care and disposition to reduce ED LOS.
• Provide appropriate patient documentation as needed, to include progress notes, discharge summaries, comorbidity documentation to drive the case mix index (CMI) and queries from the documentation team.
• Facilitate timely & safe discharges to meet the goals set by the institution.
• Collaborate with physician leaders by attending monthly data analytics/efficiency meetings to understand and facilitate institutional goals.
• Ensures continuous flow of communication with leadership of outpatient healthcare clinics to enhance quality of healthcare services to patients.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.