About This Role
This full-time Nurse Practitioner role in OB/GYN involves working collaboratively with residents, fellows, attendings, and staff to provide care for outpatient clinic patients. The position focuses on primary and urgent medical management, emergency stabilization, teaching, staff development, patient education, and discharge planning.
Responsibilities
- Work in a collaborative model with residents, fellows, attendings, and staff to care for outpatient clinic patients
- Work under the supervision of the Medical Director or approved staff physician
- Work in association with PCCs, staff nurses, and discharge coordinator in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of medical and nursing care
- Assume responsibility for primary and urgent medical management
- Assume responsibility for emergency stabilization of all critically ill patients
- Teach residents and medical students
- Provide staff development and education
- Provide patient education and discharge planning
- Serve as a clinical preceptor and educational resource for OB/GYN residents, transitional-year residents, and medical students participating in outpatient obstetric and gynecologic clinical experiences
- Provide direct, hands-on instruction to medical students in obtaining comprehensive and focused obstetric and gynecologic histories and performing appropriate physical examinations
- Help learners develop competency and confidence in breast and pelvic examinations, including appropriate patient positioning, examination technique, communication, privacy, comfort, consent, and professionalism during sensitive examinations
- Supervise learners during patient encounters and assist them in developing effective approaches to patient interviewing, focused examination, case organization, oral presentations, differential diagnosis
Requirements
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from an accredited graduate nursing program with preparation appropriate for practice as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner
- Demonstrated clinical experience in outpatient women’s health, obstetrics, and gynecology for a minimum of 5 years
- Documented prior experience supervising, precepting, or teaching healthcare trainees in a clinical setting
- Current board certification as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNPBC) through the National Certification Corporation (NCC)
- Current or eligibility for unrestricted licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) in the State of Louisiana, including prescriptive authority as required for the position
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) / Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification from the American Heart Association
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