Shriners Children's
Location
Shreveport, LA | United States
Job description
Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.
Shriners Children's is the premier pediatric burn, orthopaedic, spinal cord injury, cleft lip and palate, and pediatric subspecialties medical center. We have an opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner to join our clinical Shreveport, Louisisana team. The ideal candidate will embrace a variety of tasks, including Clinic, Operating Room, Orthopaedics and Cleft Lip and Palate.
The certified nurse practitioner (CNP) provides care that requires knowledge and skills obtained from advanced formal education and clinical experience. The CNP, in collaboration with the physicians and interdisciplinary team, may provide preventive, acute, specialized and primary care services to patients consistent with the nurse’s education and certification. Services provided by the CNP may include, but are not limited to the following: 1) assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of identified health needs; 2) ordering and interpretation of diagnostic and/or laboratory tests; 3) formulating, documenting, and monitoring treatment plans; 4) routine wound or post-operative dressing management; 5) ordering interdisciplinary consults; and 6) ordering pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies and/or interventions; 7)assisting with minor clinic procedures and operating room minor and major surgical procedures; 8)assisting int he workup of the patient, conferring with the physician on treatment and follow up; and 9) inpatient hospital ward management for patients, assisting with admissions, inpatient care/rounds and discharges.
Education
MSN-NP (PNP or FNP)
Certification/Licensure
RN in state of practice
Pediatric or Family Nurse Practitioner certification
Experience
Two years' RN experience required, two years' Pediatric RN experience preferred
Other
Current full vaccination status required
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