Nurse Practitioner - Pain Service Surgery Program

Job Description

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) acts as an autonomous health professional with advanced education and provides essential health services grounded in professional, ethical and legal standards. With a specialty-based focus, the NP works within an expanded nursing role and utilizing expert skill to formulate clinical decisions and appropriate management of acute pain. The NP integrates in-depth knowledge of advanced nursing practice and theory, health management, health promotion, disease/injury prevention, and other relevant biomedical and psychosocial theories to provide comprehensive health services. The NP will utilize a collaborative approach with the broader interprofessional surgical team. The NP works in collaboration with clients and other health-care providers in the provision of high-quality patient-centered care. They work with diverse client populations in a variety of contexts and practice settings.

The Nurse Practitioner has an expanded s...