Nurse Practitioner

Cape Fox subsidiary Eagle Health, LLC is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide services at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Requirements:

• Graduate Nursing, Master's Degree in Nursing.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a clinical setting.
• Experience in evaluating pediatric patients with neurodevelopmental neurodegenerative conditions.
• Strong interest in clinical research.

Core Duties:

• Obtain 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
• Screen healthy subjects and patients and interview subjects to obtain social and medical history and medication history
• Communicate with patients' home physicians and family care institutions for the release of medical records, imaging studies, and pathology slides
• Assess and track illnesses of patients and supports overall diagnosis and clinical research.
• Participate in patient rounds and protocol meetings and provide comprehensive patient management support
• Participate in research group meetings and in the decision-making process regarding patient inclusion in the studies, diagnoses and patient and family management throughout
• Order laboratory tests and interpret results for research or medical staff and patients.
• Prescribe and recommend drugs or other forms of treatment under the direction of a physician.
  

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