Nurse Practitioner
The Department of Medicine is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team at the Beacham Center for Geriatric Medicine to optimize team performance and patient outcomes. The Nurse Practitioner is responsible for providing comprehensive and age-appropriate care to both well and ill patients. The Nurse Practitioner provides primary and urgent care, educates patients and intervenes in acute or chronic illness.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Uses advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge to identify acute and/or chronic health problems through a comprehensive, age-appropriate assessment of patients/families.
- Provides evidence-based primary and urgent care and provides patient education for self-care chronic disease management.
- Effectively uses resources.
- Prioritizes and organizes work to meet the changing priorities of the functional unit and/or cost center.
- Authority for coordinating and making decisions regarding patient care.
- Triages phone calls and electronic advice requests from patients and determines need for medical assessment.
- Assesses lab results and implements intervention in consultation with primary providers and medical director.
- Provides guidance and direction to other unit staff where applicable to promote quality, safety, and excellence in care.
- Analyzes findings and applies, as appropriate, to improve the management of patient care.
- Identifies care continuity needs of patients.
- Participates in quality improvement/patient safety projects.
- Supports providers in phone follow up, in-basket message management/triage, patient paperwork, Medicare annual wellness visits, and medication refills.
- Coordinates care for a group of primary complex patients to achieve clinical and organizational outcomes.
- Responsible for other clinical duties as assigned.
Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Clinical skills in specialty area or equivalent.
- Successfully completes all training courses required for access to Epic and other clinical software systems.
- General computer knowledge and capability to use computer.
- Requires effective use of resources and cost awareness.
- Ability to incorporate into practice theoretical concepts and advanced clinical skills with patients, families, and interdisciplinary health care team members.
- Ability to analyze data to synthesize and summarize information and to make judgments regarding patient care.
- Analytical ability necessary to diagnose patients and to develop and implement plans of action for long and short-term management of acute and chronic health.
- Ability to apply principles of evidence-based practice, scientific process, and service excellence in practice.
- Ability to interact successfully with the public. Ability to perform effectively despite sudden deadlines and changing priorities. Ability to maintain personal composure in high stress situations.
- Interdisciplinary health care team to enhance collaboration and problem-solving.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to provide information to patients and health care personnel.
- Ability to demonstrate and convey a favorable image of the organization and to conform to proper standards of professional dress, attitude and demeanor.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills required to interact with patients, patients’ families/visitors and clinical staff.
- Ability to perform with a high degree of accuracy and with meticulous attention to detail.
- Demonstrate a strong ability to use initiative and judgment and to identify, analyze and solve problems.
- Ability to demonstrate self-direction and initiation.
- Ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
- Able to operate patient care equipment, computers, and general office equipment.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Nursing; Registered Nurse license and Certified as a Nurse Practitioner. Must be licensed as NP in State of Maryland
- Additional experience may substitute for master's degree, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Additional Minimum Qualifications:
Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross CPR certification required.
Must maintain current licensure and certification during duration of employment.
Classified Title: Nurse Practitioner
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG
Starting Salary Range: $100,000 - $152,900 ($130,000 targeted; Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F 8:30a - 5p
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Johns Hopkins Bayview
Department name: SOM DOM Bay Geriatric Medicine
Personnel area: School of Medicine