Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

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Department:  Clinical Services: Provider

Entity:  Team members affiliated with Joint Ventures

Job Relationships

Responsible to: Medical Director

Assignments received from: Medical Director     

Positions supervised: N/A

Job Summary

Urgent care Nurse Practitioners provide a wide variety of clinical services including treatment of acute episodic conditions such as sore throats, colds, flu-like symptoms, cuts, sprains and minor infections. Functioning alongside of a physician, it is essential for an urgent care Advanced Practitioner to have excellent assessment skills in order to recognize more serious conditions and direct the patient to the emergency room for advanced care when necessary.

The Flex NP does not anchor at a one particular urgent care site. The Flex NP works across two sites in close proximity to one another. As patient care needs arise requiring NP, the Flex NP travels from to the respective site to render care.

Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree required for Physician Assistants
• Master's Degree required for Nurse Practitioners

Work Experience

• Minimum of 1 year of fulltime experience in an Urgent Care or Emergency Medicine setting required
• Experience treating both pediatric and adult patient populations (all ages) required.

Required Licenses/Certifications

• National Certification
• Active state medical licensure & DEA

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Work experience in an Urgent Care or Emergency Room setting
• Comfortable with minor procedures (sutures, casts, splints, etc.), and preliminary reads on EKGs and X-rays required.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Preferred

• Knowledge and experience with Electronic Medical Records     
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to be attentive with strong listening skills
• Strong customer service skills

Essential Functions

Essential functions are those tasks, duties and responsibilities that comprise the means of accomplishing the job’s purpose and objectives. Essential functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are the major functions for which the person in the job is held accountable. Following are the essential functions of the job.

- Examining and treating patients

- Taking patients’ medical histories

- Ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and X-rays

- Making diagnoses and prescribing medications

- Treating minor injuries that may require sutures, splints, or casting

- Recording progress notes for follow-up patients

- Educating and counseling patients

- Ordering and/or carrying out therapy with patients

- Giving vaccinations, and referring patients to additional care

- Provide clinical services on an 'as-needed' basis.  Each provider will work an anticipated eight (8) or twelve (12) hours per shift which will be assigned by an authorized representative of GoHealth Urgent Care

- Examining and treating patients from birth to age 26 years

- All other duties as assigned

Note:  this job description is not inclusive of all the duties of the position.  You may be asked by leaders to perform other duties.  Management reserves the right to revise this position description at any time. 

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