RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Shall conduct outpatient clinics, make observations appropriate to the outpatients underlying disease and treatment plan, including current symptoms.
• Shall review the patient's medications, diet, therapy course, and adherence to management plan and patient observations.Modify regimen as required.
• Shall instruct and counsel patient as required.
• Shall interview and examine patients, review past medical history and request or perform diagnostic tests and examination deemed necessary to obtain all possible information related to each case.
• Shall make preliminary diagnosis, directs, prescribe or provide treatment or arrange for specialized care or patient referral as required. Base decision upon information obtained, professional medical knowledge and skills and prescribed policies and procedures.
• Shall make note of observations to be incorporated into EHR. Provide emergency care as required, provide definitive management in all medical categories for cases that do not require referral.
• Shall give total patient care including prevention, health maintenance, early diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up services to patients under incumbent's care
• shall familiarize with the cultural, social, political, geographic, demographic, economic, and epidemiological characteristic of the patients and the communities served.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience: shall have completed an accredited Family Nurse Practitioner program or Physician Assistant program experience with a minimum of six months experience in the specialty. There must be no lapse of services of no more than six (6) months prior to beginning tour of duty with CCHCF.
• The contractor shall be board certified with the American Nurses Credentialing Center or the American Association of Nurse Practitioners or the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants that is appropriate to specialty
• Shall possess a current, valid, unrestricted appropriate license in any state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States
• The contractor shall maintain a valid, current, full and unrestricted DEA license
• The contractor shall maintain a valid and current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certifications and are mandatory for Family Nurse Practitioner
• If required by the position, the contractor shall possess a valid state driver’s license throughout the term of this contract

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• ACLS
• ATLS
• PALS
• BLS
• CPR
• Immunization Records
• Valid state driver's license if required

Job Types: Full-time, Contract, Temporary

Pay: $56.00 - $70.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Medical specialties:

• Emergency Medicine

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Supplemental schedule:

• Overtime

Weekly schedule:

• 5x8
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Work setting:

• Hospital
• In-person
• Outpatient

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Experience:

• Nurse practitioner: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• ACLS Certification (Preferred)
• BLS Certification (Preferred)
• PALS Certification (Preferred)
• CPR Certification (Preferred)
• Immunization records (Preferred)
• ATLS Certification (Preferred)

Work Location: In person