Advanced Reg Nurse Practitioner - ENT/Head and Neck - Full Time

University of Miami; Miami (FL); Presencial; USD 100.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Tuition remission

Competitive salary

Descripción de la vacante

University of Miami is seeking an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse to deliver medical care across diverse patient populations. The APRN may examine, treat, and prescribe within authorized scope, collaborating with the Surgical Teams to coordinate perioperative care.

The role emphasizes autonomous practice, adherence to policies, and continuous improvement in patient outcomes within UHealth. University facilities provide comprehensive benefits and support for staff development.

Formación

• Master’s degree in Nursing required; APRN license.
• Florida APRN license valid and active.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills for collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsabilidades

• Participates in patient rounds with Surgical Teams: Head and Neck, Surgical Oncology, Neurological surgery, Orthopaedic, Cardiac, Thoracic, Urology.
• Completes history, performs exams, reviews records, interprets tests, and documents plans per supervising physician.
• Acts as liaison between Nursing and Surgical services to ensure proper follow-up and patient flow.
• Provides education to patients and families on wound care, drains, tubes, feeding lines, and discharge needs.
• Contributes to quality improvement initiatives and continuous care assessments.
• Facilitates timely and safe discharges in coordination with leadership and care teams.

Conocimientos

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Communication

Technical Proficiency

Educación

Master’s degree in Nursing (APRN)

Herramientas

Epic/UChart

Descripción del empleo

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse delivers medical care to a wide variety of patients. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse 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.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 modalitiesImplements 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.This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

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
• 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.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status:Full time

Employee Type:Staff