Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - Neurosurgery

Join INTEGRIS Health Medical Group Neurosurgery at INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center and enjoy the work and the team in this specialty. The neurosurgery practice supports complex surgical and non-surgical cases, requiring timely pre-op and post-op management, patient education, and coordination of care.

Requirements

• Initiates and completes a detailed patient assessment
• Initiates the order of laboratory tests, radiological examinations and other routine diagnostic procedures
• Diagnoses the actual or potential health problem or need, based upon an analysis of the data collected, and plans therapeutic intervention
• Orders and initiates appropriate medication, treatment, and consultation based upon an analysis of the data collected
• Orders or performs routine procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing (not involving tendons, arteries or nerves) wound care, venous and arterial blood draws, and managing simple conditions produced by infection, trauma or other disease processes
• Educates the patient regarding prescribed treatment and medication(s)