NURSE PRACTITIONER - 01142025-64520

Job Information

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, LOCAL HEALTH DIVISION, BLOUNT COUNTY

Qualifications

Overview

Responsibilities

1. Devises evidence-based treatment strategies to meet the needs of patients with difficult diagnoses.

Processing Information:

1. Monitors patients' health status, efficacy of care, and response to treatments to ensure patient progress and the best possible outcome for the patient.

Analyzing Data or Information:

1. Analyzes findings from physical examination, laboratory reports, and other diagnostic testing.

Making Decisions or Problem Solving:

1. Examines patient, determines diagnosis, develops and implements plan of care.
2. Evaluates patient's progress and updates plan of care as needed.

Assisting and Caring for Others:

1. Prescribes medication dosages, route, and frequencies based on patients' characteristics such as age and gender.
2. Detects and responds to adverse drug reactions, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, and older adults.
3. Responds to medical emergencies and provides assistance.
4. Performs BLS (Basic Life Support) - CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
5. Provides care according to patient needs in settings such as acute and chronic primary care clinics, psychiatric hospitals, correctional facilities, and others.
6. Provides preventative health care needs for the general population.
7. Provides psychosocial counseling.

Getting Information:

1. Performs physical and/or mental status examinations.
2. Reviews patient history from patients' medical records including lab results, prior medications, past medical and family history, prior visits or hospitalizations.
3. Orders appropriate diagnostic tests to obtain any necessary information.
4. Obtains information from patients or others to determine the reason of hospitalization, office visit, or chief complaint.

Documenting/Recording Information:

1. Safeguards medical records in accordance with agency directives and state and federal law.

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others:

1. Leads patient treatment teams as necessary to coordinate patient care.

Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others:

1. Provides information about a patient's medical condition to other treatment providers involved in the patient's care.
2. Provides information to patient and/or family members or guardians about medical conditions, prescribed medications and side effects, and plan of care.

Performing for or Working Directly With the Public:

1. Educates and collaborates with the public on health care concerns.

Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:

1. Establishes and maintains relationships necessary to deliver quality patient care across the spectrum of care.

Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:

1. Collaborates with consulting physician about patient's plan of care.
2. Communicates with supervisor or co-workers about patient care, policies, procedures, operations and treatments.

Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:

1. Audits patient charts for protocol, standards of care, and compliance with agency and outside accrediting/licensing organizations guidelines.

Provide Consultation and Advice to Others:

1. Provides consultation and advice to colleagues across the spectrum of care.

Coaching and Developing Others:

1. Participates in orientation for all new nursing staff.
2. Conducts orientation for new advanced practice nursing staff.

Training and Teaching of Others:

1. Acts as a preceptor to students in medical, nursing, pharmacy or nurse practitioner programs.
2. Delivers in-service training.
3. Delivers health related training to outside groups or organizations.

Competencies (KSA's)

1. Decision Quality
2. Functional/Technical Competency
3. Problem Solving
4. Listening
5. Dealing with Ambiguity
6. Written Communications
7. Ethics and Values
8. Integrity and Trust
9. Technical Learning
10. Time Management
11. Approachability

Knowledge:

1. Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventative healthcare measures
2. Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders
3. Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance
4. Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods
5. Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications
6. Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment

Skills:

1. Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
2. Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents
3. Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
4. Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience
5. Monitoring/Assessing performance of oneself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action
6. Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
7. Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems
8. Speaking
9. Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
10. Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do
11. Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
12. Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning and teaching new things

Abilities:

1. Cognitive abilities necessary to perform required tasks
2. The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
3. Physical abilities necessary to perform assessments and treatments
4. The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)
5. The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
6. The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong
7. The ability to speak clearly so others can understand
8. The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand
9. The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
10. The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person
11. The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
12. Sensory abilities necessary to perform required tasks
13. Psychomotor abilities necessary to perform assessments and treatments
14. The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations)

Tools & Equipment

1. Electronic Devices
2. Various Medical Equipment and Devices

TN Driver Standards

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver's license
• For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.