Nurse Practitioner (Permanent) - Days (JPA2025)

Job Title: Nurse Practitioner (Permanent) - Days
Location (On-site, Remote, or Hybrid?): Kinder, LA (onsite)
Contract Duration: PERM

JOB FUNCTION:

The Nurse Practitioner works in collaboration with physicians to provide patient medical services. The collaborative practice of the APRN FNP/BC includes accepting referral from, consulting with, cooperating with or referring to other health care providers in order to promote comprehensive and continuity of care in a primary care practice. Responsible for accurate, concise, legible, and timely documentation of all pertinent patient information. Appropriately and professionally communicates between staff members, management, and physicians. The Nurse Practitioner functions as an integral part of the medical clinic team. All tasks must be performed in compliance with established policies and procedures of Client Community Healthcare.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works in collaboration with a physician to assess, treat and manage the physical needs of patients
• Obtains patient history and develops patient care charts, ensuring completeness and accuracy
• Interprets and records results of clinical tests in managing patient health and illness needs
• Making decisions in solving patient care problems and selecting treatment regimens in collaboration with a licensed physician, or other health care provider as indicated; and evaluate patient outcomes
• Providing guidance and teaching. Working with patients and families in meeting health care needs
• Participates in planning programs and in the development of specific health care policies and procedures
• Maintains a working knowledge of and adheres to all hospital and nursing policies and procedures
• Must have the ability to identify and address the special needs of all patient in pertinent areas including: all ages
• Attends and participates in required staff meeting, in-services, select committees and annual hospital orientation
• Knows CPR, disaster, safety and fire plans. Correctly and quickly responds to all hospital and clinic codes. Actively participates in emergency drills conducted as need be.
• Properly documents in patient record and signs off to include name, date and time
• Improves job knowledge through self-study
• Complies with APH dress code policies including a neat and clean appearance. While at work, wears his/her employee badge for proper identification
• Consistently reports to work on time and as scheduled
• Displays a positive attitude and is courteous to fellow employees, supervisors, patients, and quest of the clinic.
• Maintains universal precautions at all times with all patients
• Successfully and timely completes on-hire and annual hospital orientation requirements. He/she adheres to all policies which are identified in the APH employee handbook
• Evaluates patients in accordance with hospital and licensing requirements of collaborative practice
• Assessing patients, analyzing and synthesizing data, and knowledge of and applying nursing principles at an advanced level
• Managing patients’ physical and psychosocial health-illness status with regard to nursing care
• Analyzing multiple sources of data and identifying and performing certain acts of medical diagnosis in accordance with the collaborative practice agreement
• Making decisions in solving patient care problems and selecting treatment regimens in collaboration with a licensed physician, or other health care provider as indicated
• Consulting with or referring patients to licensed physicians, and other health care providers in accordance with collaborative practice agreement
• Required to rotate through the onsite BHU to complete H&Ps.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

• 1 year previous nursing experience as a Registered Nurse
• Maintain CEUs required for Nurse Practitioner licensure in State of Louisiana

Job Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the practice and techniques
• Knowledge of the laboratory techniques and methods
• Ability to maintain positive public relations

Skills:

• Able to communicate with others effectively
• Able to provide direct care in a kind and compassionate manner
• Able to respond appropriately even in a stressful situations

Physical Demands:

Fine motor skills, bending, stretching, sitting, standing, and walking while on duty. May require lifting of 50 to 100 pounds. Possesses personal qualities such as kindness, empathy, understanding, respect, good judgment, integrity, loyalty, a sense of humor, and an ability to relate to people in a humanistic manner while working in a stressful environment. Ability to distinguish colors and shading. Exposure to possible hazardous materials/conditions and infectious diseases in the clinic and hospital setting. Utilizes proper body mechanics with all movements.

License:

• Current license as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of Louisiana
• Master’s degree in nursing is required
• Must have completed a program of study designed to prepare an RN for advanced practice and which meets Board of Nursing standards for practice as an APRN.
• BLS/CPR certification is required
• PALS certification is preferred
• ACLS certification is preferred