Nurse Practitioner

* Provides initial and ongoing participant assessment, care plan development
implementation of care plan for participants living in community, congregate,
adult home or skilled nursing facility settings.

* Responsible for full assessment of participants including obtaining health
records, performing physical and mental evaluations, evaluating diagnostic
tests, and reporting findings and identifying status changes.
* Performs complete analysis and assessments of participants including
recognizing abnormal findings in testing, exercising clinical judgement and
interpreting screenings and other diagnostic tests in accordance with medical
standards of care.
* Monitors ongoing and chronic health problems, anticipating needs and in
collaboration with physicians, prescribes and adjusts medication within
current practice guidelines and notifies appropriate teams.
* Appropriately orders consultations with specialists as indicated, outreaches
to consultants to request specific goals, reviews recommendations from
consultants, takes action as clinically appropriate, and documents timely.
* Provides ongoing education, counseling and guidance with participants and
families including goals of care and participates in family meetings.
* Monitors care and evaluates effectiveness of individual care plans while
making appropriate revisions and notifying family and caregivers
* Functions as a member of the interdisciplinary team and participates in
development of comprehensive plan of care and ongoing monitoring of
participants' health status.
* Participates in clinical administrator on-call rotation.
* Documents in a timely fashion consistent with CMS standards in ASL EMR.
*  Travels to participant homes and their congregate homes and/or facilities to
help bridge care in the community.

Qualifications

* ANCC Certification
* Current NY State RN License and Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber License
* Ability to travel to additional facilities as needed

Education

* Master's degree in nursing with completion of accredited program for Nurse
Practitioners