Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner)

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• Secures a health and development history from the patient or parent; records findings and makes critical evaluations.
• Provides direct medical care in the presence of illness or disability in order to maintain life, provide comfort, reduce distress and enhance coping ability.
• Evaluates the medical aspects of treatment plans, periodically recognizing the need for reassessment by a physician or other health professional.
• Refers patients to appropriate medical (or other) facilities, providing full clinical information for care and diagnostic procedures that cannot be adequately provided at local IHS facilities, including facilitating emergent transfer to higher level of care when indicated.
• Collaborates with other health care professionals to develop treatment protocols, standards of practice and policies.