Position Title: Advanced Practitioner Provider - Village Based

Department: Village Health Services

Reports To: Medical Director, Medical Staff

Purpose of Position:

Provide acute, chronic, emergency and preventive care to outlying village residents in accordance with NSHC’s mission, philosophy, policies and procedures while under the direct supervision of medical doctors in Nome.

Uphold the organization’s vision, mission, and corporate values. Demonstrate understanding of and compliance with organization’s policies, procedures, code of conduct and work rules.

Essential Functions:

• Assess, plan and provide patient care under the supervision of a physician

• Examine patients, perform comprehensive physical examinations, and compile patient medical data, including health history and results of physical examinations

• Ensure proper illness and injury care and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery

• Use the appropriate process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation when assessing the patient’s condition and needs, setting outcomes, implementing appropriate actions to meet the patient’s/family’s physical, emotional, spiritual, social, intellectual and safety needs, and evaluating patient progress

• Ensure patient care is accomplished effectively and efficiently in a cost-effective manner, discharge planning is carried out, and the medical regime for each patient is implemented as prescribed by the physician

• Participate in facilitating patient and family learning by explaining the patients' disease process and planned interventions to the patient/family

• Demonstrate ability to care for medical, critically ill, traumatically injured, mental health, emergency, maternal/neonate, and pediatric patient populations according to policy and procedure when medically necessary
• Perform other duties as assigned

Personal Traits:

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to consistently demonstrate the organization’s values: integrity, cultural sensitivity and respect for traditional values, continual learning and improving, compassion, teamwork and pride. Employees are expected to demonstrate integrity, professionalism, accountability, cooperation with and consideration of others.

Required Knowledge:

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to have general knowledge of typical office technologies such as computers, printers, copiers, fax machines, and typical office software.

Job Specific knowledge is listed below:

• Knowledge of compliance (state, federal and corporate)

Required Skills and Abilities:

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to have a broad range of skills and abilities centered around a strong patient focus, efficient performance, and teamwork. All employees should have patient/customer service skills, interpersonal skills and good communication skills. All employees should have the ability to manage their time and organize their work to ensure efficient performance. In addition, all employees should have the ability to follow policy, procedure and instructions, actively communicate with their supervisors to ensure understanding and manage their work accordingly. Finally, all employees should have the ability to understand and manage patient/customer confidentiality.

Job specific skills and abilities are listed below:

• Ability to provide a high level of customer service
• Ablility to perform under pressure

Minimum Requirements

Physical Requirements:

• Use hands and arms to operate office or clinical equipment
• Sit less than half the workday
• Stand and/or walk more than half the workday
• Bend, stretch, twist, crouch and/or reach
• View electronic monitors for prolonged periods of time
• Lift or carry unaided 25 to 50 pounds
• See and hear with normal acuity

Working Conditions:

• Work is conducted in a standard office environment and a standard clinical environment to include exposure to latex, biohazard or other harmful substances
• Moderate travel is required (between 25% and 50% of the time).
• Travel is required via large aircraft
• Travel is required via small (less than 16 passenger) aircraft
• Travel is required via snow mobiles, All Terrain Vehicles or boat

I attest that I do not have any physical, mental or medical impairment or disability that would limit my job performance