Family Nurse Practitioner

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The Primary Care Provider – Family Nurse Practitioner is responsible for diagnosing and managing acute and chronic conditions and emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention. They perform detailed patient history and physical examinations, conducting appropriate preventive screening and health promotion procedures based on age and history.  The FNP practices autonomously and in collaboration with other health care professionals to manage patients’ health needs. The FNP will report to the UICSL Medical Director.

• Provide comprehensive primary patient care including prevention, health maintenance, diagnosis, treatment of acute and chronic conditions, and follow-up services to patients under his/her care within the scope of practice of family medicine.
• Order, perform, and interpret results of sleep studies, laboratory studies, EKGs, radiology examinations and other diagnostic studies, formulate the appropriate differential diagnosis based on history, physical and diagnostic findings, develop and implement treatment plans, provide patient education and counseling, monitor the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions, coordinating follow up care for patients, making referrals to various internal and external services, obtain pre-procedure and surgical consents, write pre and post procedure notes and orders, perform consultations, provision of appropriate wound care including but not limited to wound debridement, provision of appropriate burn care and directing, electrocardiogram (EKG) preliminary interpretation, cardiac stress test, routine prenatal care for low-risk pregnancies, uncomplicated postpartum patients, and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts, defibrillation (BLS required).
• Evaluate and counsel patients in areas of mental and socio-cultural problems including diet, development, behavior, and family problems.
• Consult and coordinate care with other practitioners, physicians, nursing, pharmacy, laboratory, and outside referral sites. Refer patients for specialty care, as indicated.
• Perform routine minor office surgery, and other primary care office procedures.
• Stay “up to date “on evidence-based practices and care.
• Exemplify UICSL values.
• Participate in interdisciplinary health care team meetings including UICSL Medical Staff and as assigned to committees including but not limited to Medical Executive Committee (MEC), Infection Prevention, Control and Safety (IPCS) and Quality Management and Improvement (QMI).
• Perform other duties as assigned and agreed to with the Medical Director or the Director of Clinical Operations.

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