Nurse Practitioner

We are currently searching for a Certified Nurse Practitioner for the NINDS Neurology Consult Service. Major duties include consulting and collaborating with attending neurologist and or other medical staff; triaging new consult requests, HPs, assessing acute and non-acute clinical problems and toxicities; communicating and collaborating with multidisciplinary research teams across NIH Institutes and Centers; performing invasive procedures (e.g. LP); providing patient and family counseling and health education to a diverse and complex patient population; referring patients for additional consultation as needed; evaluating, initiating, and performing emergency management procedures on unstable patients; participating and presenting in patient rounds. This is a full-time, on-site opportunity in Bethesda, MD.  

• Perform physical examinations of adult and pediatric patients with complex and difficult multi-system diseases, enter results into patient charts and address any concerns that arise from research participants/patients following completion of examination.
• Interpret data and determine normal and abnormal findings that merit immediate clinical action.
• Perform comprehensive medical histories research, and document findings per institutional and protocol standards.
• Communicate and collaborate with the multidisciplinary research team to ensure that patient management strategies are successful in meeting patient care and research needs.
• Participate in patient rounds and protocol meetings and provide comprehensive patient management support.
• Initiate and coordinate visits, drug orders, laboratory procedures, consultations, and treatments for patients based on clinical needs or protocol requirements.
• Monitor patients for toxicities of treatment and other possible adverse reactions to drugs or procedures that may require emergency treatment or revision of the prescribed regimen.
• Provide documentation and monitoring and grading of side effects related to a variety of study interventions including drugs and psychological behaviors.
• Monitor, manage and report irregularities of medical care of participants while admitted to the clinic or medical facility.
• Take histories and perform physical examinations or perform daily progress evaluations for inpatients or follow-up visits for outpatients and document appropriately.
• Review patient’s charts to collect relevant clinical data and analyze trends in patient responses collected through structured and semi-structured interviews with patients and patients’ families.
• Perform intake and preliminary evaluation of potential subjects through e-Interviewing, review of medical records, completion of safety screening, consultation with treating professionals, and with medical staff.
• Communicate with patients’ home physicians and family care institutions for the release of medical records, imaging studies and pathology slides.
• Obtain social, medical, and medication history.
• Triage new consult requests.
• Perform clinical data recording and medical chart entries manually and electronically within standard applications and software programs using the appropriate format and following institutional and protocol standards.
• Assess the patient’s general health status through observation and appropriate screening procedures and document results and findings.
• Perform invasive procedures independently upon validation of competency, which may include lumbar puncture; evaluate and interpret findings.
• Work with staff on the evaluation, treatment, and monitoring of research subjects in inpatient and outpatient settings; ensure patient and families’ ongoing understanding of the clinical and research processes.
• Predict and analyze trends in patient conditions and develop a patient management plan in response to the data obtained.
• Assess patient care needs such as acute and non-acute clinical problems and toxicities.
• Participate in clinical conferences, and support in-depth documentation through written progress notes, summaries, and clinical research forms.
• Enter medical orders and review test results from lab, other diagnostic tests, and laboratory studies for normal and abnormal findings with guidance from a physician or collaboration with other staff.
• Provide education to patients and their caregivers on diagnostic procedures and treatment plans.
• Provide comprehensive documentation of procedures conducted, tests administered, results and findings and present to researchers and medical staff.
• Provide verbal and written responses to patient and family inquiries as well as patient and family counseling and health education.
• Diagnose and manage common acute or stable chronic health problems, injuries, and illnesses making assessments of acute and non-acute clinical problems and toxicities.
• Provide health care maintenance, diagnostic and therapeutic services, education, and counseling.
• Performs emergency management procedures on unstable patients exercising sound judgement in initiating emergency measures and interpreting observations to physicians.

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Qualifications:

• Licensed Family Nurse Practitioner in Maryland
• Licensed to see both adults and pediatrics
• At least 3 years of experience

Skills:

• Fluent computer skills
• Electronic Medical Record systems
• Microsoft Office suite

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