NURSE PRACTITIONER - EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Description

Main Function:

Provides evaluation and treatment to emergency department and urgent care patients. Works in cooperation with emergency physicians, nurses, technicians, and others to provide prompt, efficient, and excellent care at Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua NY.

Required Job Specific Competencies:

• Demonstrates skill in communicating both verbally and in writing.

• Accurately collects records and interprets patient information and data.

• Demonstrates flexibility in decision making and prioritizing workload.

• Has good command of knowledge base including knowledge of medical issues for each age group across the lifespan.

• Provides treatment and evaluation of emergency medicine patients of all levels of acuity including those presenting with chest pain, abdominal pain, stroke, weakness, sepsis and any other complaint.

• Able to interpret...