**Job Description**

**Job Title - Nurse Practitioner - Electrophys Studies - Mount Sinai Hospital - Full Time - Day**

A nurse practitioner (NP) as described in Title VIII, Article 139 section 6910 of the New York Education Law is a RN who has earned a separate certification as an NP through advanced clinical nursing education in a distinct specialty area of practice. Nurse practitioners are independent practitioners who diagnose, treat, and prescribe for a patients condition that falls within their specialty area of practice.

NOTE: Medical orders, progress notes and treatments plans are not required to be countersigned by a physician.

**PRINCIPLES DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**CLINICAL PRACTICE**

+ Assesses the health status of patients/families by means of comprehensive health history and physical examination.
+ Initiates and orders selected therapeutic and diagnostic procedures, consultations and laboratory examination, presc...