Jersey Shore University Medical Center is seeking a Nurse Practitioner with 3-5 years experience in an adult program with focus on Neuroscience and stroke.

Requirements

• Demonstrates effective communication and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, and incorporates the expertise of the interdisciplinary team to achieve patient outcomes.
• Participates in the development of clinical pathways for stroke patients and establishes outcomes for various stages of the stroke continuum, includes inpatient care, rehabilitation, secondary prevention and community based health care.
• Acts as a primary clinical resource to patient care team at all point in stroke care continuum.  Identifies, provides, develops and maintains learning and practice resources for patient care team.
• Leader in the quality improvement process for stroke.  Recognizes trends in stroke care and assists in the revision of standards, guidelines and or protocols, utilizing principles of evidence-based practice and wise resource utilization.
• Maintains ongoing, contemporaneous database of stroke quality measures.  Analyzes practices that contribute to variance, draws conclusions from aggregate data, actively promotes change in practice patterns based on identified quality issues.
• Participates in clinical research, in keeping with Good Clinical Practice standards and JSUMC Office of Clinical Research expectations.  Reviews current medical and nursing research literature, and demonstrates application of research to clinical practice.
• Provides stroke educational programs from novice-to-expert clinical expertise to advance the performance levels of staff.

Additional Skills

• Strong Clinical skills in Neurosciences
• Ability to work independantly
• Strong organization skills - ability to work as a member of a team
• Excellent physician relations
• Project Management skills