Nurse Practitioner - Neurology

Located in Largo in the heart of Prince George’s County, our new state-of-the-art regional medical center (UM Capital Region Medical Center) will provide improved access to primary and ambulatory care services, and serve as a tertiary care center for critically ill patients. In addition, our new space will allow us to expand our offerings as a community partner to help improve the health status of Prince George’s County residents.

Job specifics:

• Join a multifaceted team that covers neurosurgery, neurocritical care, and elective neurosurgery cases.
  • The Advanced Practice Practitioner’s (APP) primary role will cover neurosurgery
  • The APP will be trained to cover all aspects of the neuroscience team.
  • The APP will have the opportunity to train and cross cover other APP lead service lines.
  • Help ensure full coverage of the neuroscience clinical schedule.
• Performs routine and expanded job descriptions as listed in the provider's delegation agreement on file with the Maryland Board of Physicians or Maryland Board of Nursing. In collaboration with the physician care team, the APP will:
  • Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services to critically ill patients.
  • Obtain medical histories, examines patients, rounds daily, orders and interprets tests, makes initial diagnoses, and orders treatments. 
  • Communicate effectively with attending physicians, other medical teams, team members, and patients and their families.
  • Administer therapeutic procedures such as placement of intracranial monitoring systems, extra ventricular drains, VP shunt taps, suturing, and wound care.
  • Instructs and counsels patients and families.
  • May first assist in the operating room when necessary.
• Essential Skills include:
  • Highly effective verbal and written communication skills are required to interact with patient families, departmental units, medical and nursing staff on all essential matters
  • Ability to handle and triage multiple priorities, work independently, take initiative in achieving expected results, and handle confidential information.
  • Demonstrate competence and skill in required tasks and procedures.
  • Demonstrate skills in making effective decisions, quality improvement activities, problem solving, crisis management, organizing work and meeting deadlines, attention to detail and follow through, resource management, ability to work successfully with diverse types of individuals including management, clinical staff, and the public.
• Meets all team and organizational deadlines for task requests, project/ initiative submissions, evaluations, compliance items.
• Performs according to Maryland Board of Physician or Board of Nursing standards and expanded job description procedural protocols.
• Maintains a procedure complication rate less than the national average.
• Completes at least 50 hours of Category I CME every two years.
  • Complete 32 hours of trauma related CME and 16 hours of stroke related CME.         
• Facilitates excellence in quality assurance and the delivery of patient care as part of our High Reliability Organization.
  • Provides optimal quality of patient care while following safety guidelines,
  • Contributes to cohesive group relations; uses open communication to resolve problems in and between departments.
  • Demonstrates commitment to professional department and organizational core values
  • Follows Capital Region Health’s High Reliability Organization principles of patient safety, zero harm, professionalism, and mutual respect for patients, families, and coworkers.
  • Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, devices and communicates the same to those in charge.
  • Demonstrate effective verbal and written interpersonal skills.
  • Implements policies, procedure, and standards consistently in the performance of assigned duties.
  • Develops effective working relationships and maintains good communication with other team members.
• Participates in APP Council meetings, Neuroscience team meetings, APP and Neuroscience team educational opportunities, and other learning opportunities as they arise.
• Engages in leadership activities including but not limited to APP representation on committees, training and education of other APPs, or specific event or team
• Demonstrates competence and skill in required tasks and procedures.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of and competency in required subspecialty.
  • Completes at least 50 hours of Category I CME every two years. Complete 32 hours of trauma related CME and 16 hours of stroke related CME.
  • Performs according to Maryland Board of Physician or Board of Nursing standards and expanded job description procedural protocols.
  • Maintains a procedure complication rate less than the national average.
• Facilitates excellence in quality assurance and the delivery of patient care as part of our High Reliability Organization.
  • Provides optimal quality of patient care while following safety guidelines,
  • Contributes to cohesive group relations; uses open communication to resolve problems in and between departments.
  • Demonstrates commitment to professional department and organizational core values
  • Follows Capital Region Health’s High Reliability Organization principles of patient safety, zero harm, professionalism, and mutual respect for patients, families, and coworkers.
• Participates in APP Council meetings, Neuroscience team meetings, APP and Neuroscience team educational opportunities, and other learning opportunities as they arise.
• Engages in leadership activities including but not limited to APP representation on committees, training and education of other APPs, specific team events, etc.