Nurse Practitioner

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (95%).

• Document visits in EHR

• Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.
• Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.
• Order and interpret tests
• Recommend interventions to modify behavior associated with health risks.
• Maintain current knowledge of state legal regulations for nurse practitioner practice, including reimbursement of services.
• Educate patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances.
• Detect and respond to adverse drug reactions, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, or older adults.
• Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.
• Prescribe medication dosages, routes, and frequencies, based on such patient characteristics as age and gender.
• Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
• Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
• Diagnose and treat patients
• Counsel and build trust
• Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
• Recommend diagnostic or therapeutic interventions with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.
• Diagnose or treat acute health care problems, such as illnesses, infections, or injuries.
• Counsel patients about drug regimens and possible side effects or interactions with other substances, such as food supplements, over-the-counter (OTC) medications, or herbal remedies.
• Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays).
• Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.