What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Practitioner position at AACI?
Under the direction and supervision of a physician, the Nurse Practitioner provides professional medical services for AACI Health Center patients.
Duties and responsibilities
- Provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment
- Prescribe and dispense medications
- Develop and implement treatment plans with patients and other care team members
- Check vitals and conduct physical and reviews patient case histories
- Provide continuing, comprehensive healthcare maintenance and medical care to patients, including preventive care, and behavioral and community health care
- Educate patients on topics such as disease process, medication, prevention, and compliance
- Consult with and referral to affiliated subspecialists
- Work as part of an integrated care team
- Collaborate with behavioral health and wellness colleagues
- Participate in on-call after hours rotation
- Document and maintain clinical records per appropriate standards and regulations
- Participate in team meetings
- Participate in clinical quality improvement processes including peer reviews, data collection, health outcomes reporting, clinical audits, program evaluation
- Provide coverage for other clinicians when needed
- Complete other duties and related projects as assigned
Qualifications
- Masters Degree or higher in Nursing
- Licensed with the California Board of Registered Nursing as a Nurse Practitioner or Licensed with the California Physicians Assistants Board
- Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) preferred
- Current DEA registration
- Two or more years of clinical work experience
- Knowledge of the principles and practices of family medicine, general internal medicine, or pediatrics
- Knowledge of the local, state, and federal regulations pertaining to medicine and to community health centers
- Knowledge of the structure and function of community health centers
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural professional and experiential backgrounds
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
- Bilingual in one of the Santa Clara County threshold languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Tagalog, Farsi, or Vietnamese preferred
AACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Salary : $158,000 - $185,000