What are the responsibilities and job description for the Per Diem Family Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant position at Community Health Care Inc?
*FLSA Status – non exempt
*EEO Category – Professional
Our Mission: To improve lives by providing convenient, comprehensive, high-quality healthcare to every person in every community that we serve.
Our Vision: CCHN will maintain its position as the leading community health center in the state and become a model for all other healthcare organizations to follow.
MAJOR FUNCTION:
Provides nursing care within the scope of a NJ licensed Nurse Practitioner
- Assess the bio/psycho/social/spiritual health status of individual clients and families through history taking, data collection, and physical exam
- Assists staff nurses to facilitate care for walk-in patients
- Completes accurate documentation according to site specific standards
- Works in collaboration with staff, physicians, allied health professionals, and others to implement the patients plan of care
Provides pharmacological care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner
- Participates in annual update of joint practice protocols as per NJ Board of Nursing guidelines
- Prescribes or make judgments regarding pharmacologic agents and therapeutic devices
- Dispenses/Administers/Prescribes medications according to policy & protocol
Provides nurse practitioner care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner
- Recognizes and manages deviations from health
- Recognizes patients whose problem is out of scope of practice and obtain appropriate care
- Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
- Follows up on laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
- Communicates with patient to arrive at mutually agreed upon plan of care to include actual and potential health problems, both medical and nursing in nature
- Evaluation and revision of patient plan of care is ongoing
Provides health education
- Informs, teaches and guides clients/families to assume responsibility for management of their own health
- Individualizes education to facilitate patient independence and optimize patient self care
- Educates patients on pharmacological agents, therapeutic devices, laboratory or diagnostic testing
- Promotes health education for groups of patients, families, staff, agencies, communities, and organizations pertinent to area of specialty as appropriate to program
Provides referral and case management
- Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
- Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
- Refers patients to primary care as appropriate
- Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards
- Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Unrestricted license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant from the State Board in New Jersey and official recognition from the same State Board to practice as a Nurse Practitioner
- Employee shall maintain registration including prescriptive authorization with the New Jersey Board of medical Examiners,
- Maintain Board Certification
- Maintain Active CPR
- Ability to stand, swift waling, lifting, moving patients as needed
The above job description is not to be construed as a complete listing of the assignments that may be given to any employee, nor are such assignments restricted to those precisely listed in the description.