Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location
Newport News, VA | United States
Job description
Overview
Maternal Fetal Medicine nurse practitioners’ function in an expanded nursing role and perform selected tasks and services previously within the province of medicine as well as tasks that fall within the province of nursing. Nursing and medicine must maintain ongoing collaboration in education and practice so that the nurse practitioner is maximally effective in meeting the primary health-care needs of women. When performing nursing aspects of this role, the practitioner must have the opportunity to engage in independent as well as co-operative decision making. When performing expanded aspects of the role that overlap with medicine, the practitioner must function in collaboration with qualified physicians within the framework of jointly approved guidelines. Nurse practitioners not only must be prepared and competent to apply additional knowledge and skills, but also must be ready and willing to accept responsibility and accountability for their practice. Primary care is provided at all levels of the health-care system, but predominately in an ambulatory setting. The obstetric-gynecologic/women’s health nurse practitioner provides such care in collaboration with physicians, as well as with other members of the health-care team.
Position will be primarily located at the EVMS Maternal Fetal Medicine, Riverside Partners in Women’s Health affiliated practice in Newport News, however travel to other EVMS Maternal Fetal Medicine locations may be required.
Responsibilities
- Obtain a complete health, psychosocial, obstetric, and gynecologic history and record findings in a systematic, accurate, and succinct form
- Perform a complete physical examination, with specific emphasis on the reproductive system
- Order, perform, and interpret routine laboratory tests
- Develop and implement plans for health promotion and health maintenance, including plans for disease prevention and provision of health education and counseling
- Provide periodic health assessment of normal, non-pregnant, and asymptomatic women
- Provide clinical management of women having gynecologic problems
- Provide assessment, education, and management for family planning and fertility control
- Provide prenatal care for women with pregnancies, giving attention to both maternal and fetal health
- Provide postpartum care, including attention to parent and infant relationships, for women who have had pregnancies
- Provide health education and counseling, with emphasis on physical and psychosocial dimensions of adolescence, sexuality, childbearing, parenting, climacteric, aging, and family life
- Co-manage care for patients with selected health complications in collaboration with the physician
- Arrange referrals to other members of the health-care team as needed and to community resources as appropriate
- Monitor and make recommendations to nursing policy and procedure manual to include development of nursing protocols and procedures for same.
- Partner with the Department Administrator, Maternal Fetal Medicine Division Director and Practice Manager on quality standards, meaningful use, clinical workflows, nursing education and the delivery of exceptional patient care.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Nurse Practitioners must have a MSN with a nurse practitioner focus. Must be a licensed RN by the Virginia Board of Nursing and a certified nurse practitioner.
- Physician Assistants must have a MPA and be credentialed as a licensed Physician Assistant within the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Experience as a Nurse Practitioner or a Physician Assistant with obstetric patients is preferred by not required.
- CDCES Certification is desirable, but not required.
Student applicants within three (3) months of graduation/program completion will be considered. Student applicants must meet the minimum requirements of the position as a condition of employment.
Location : Location
US-VA-Newport News
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