Nurse Practitioner (APRN/NP) or Physician Assistant (PA)

Description

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

The Nurse Practitioner, or Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, is responsible for handling patient appointments, performing routine examinations, and performing in office pain management procedures. Duties include speaking with patients, completing diagnostic tests to help diagnose and treat patients for chronic injuries or illnesses and coordinating with other healthcare professionals to maintain updated medical records.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) or Physician’s Assistant (PA) works as part of the clinic provider team performing a variety of direct patient services including assessment, diagnosis, implementation of treatment, evaluation, and monitoring the general patient management plan for clinic patients.
2. The APRN/ PA performs these functions in collaboration and supervision of a licensed physician in a primary health care setting.
3. Obtaining complete medical, social and family history from patient, and/or family, and/or previous medical record, etc.
4. Prescribing medications, therapy, and treatments according to therapeutic goals, and counseling patients, and families as to expected goals and outcomes.
5. Educating and counseling patients and families.
6. Helps to implement goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and systems such as Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), Meaningful Use (MU), and other programs or objectives for PTCOA.
7. Supports and helps to achieve HCI’s clinical and business work plan in accordance with standards required to meet Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition and other programs or objectives for PTCOA.
8. Develops collaborative relationships with other departments, services, and community health care agencies to facilitate and support quality care.
9. Performs other necessary duties as required by the Medical Director, Assigned Physician or APRN, Director of Quality, or Quality Assurance Reviewer to meet the goal of providing primary healthcare services.
10. Assesses, diagnoses, implements, treats, evaluates, and monitors patients’ health status.
11. Performs complete physical examinations on patients within their scope of practice.
12. Orders routine and diagnostic lab and x-ray studies as indicated by protocol.
13. Diagnoses acute and chronic illness on the basis of clinical findings, laboratory and x-ray reports, and/or the results of other diagnostic procedures according to approved protocols.
14. Formulates, initiates, and monitors patient management plans for patients assigned to the APRN/ PA, using protocols and/or consultation with a collaborative physician.
15. Refers patients requiring hospitalization or assessment and management of conditions to supervising physicians or appropriate specialists.
16. Follows patients’ progress with the physician.
17. Travels to surrounding clinics as needed.
18. When training new team members, you will represent PTCOA in a respectful, responsible manner and uphold all standards of patient care. This includes but is not limited to training on PTCOA policies and procedures for evaluating and treating patients, following safe prescribing practices, following patient protocol, and accurate and complete documentation of all encounters.
19. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings and with a wide variety of people and different organization levels.
• Ability to effectively supervise employees.
• Highly organized with the desire and ability to effectively track projects from start to finish.
• Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently and with little to no supervision.
• Demonstrate consistent reliability, integrity, and dependability.
• Setting and achieving high goals and standards of performance.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines and keep others on the schedule.
• Record/report the need for service maintenance or repair of equipment and remove any faulty equipment from service.
• Take initiative to do to redo inadequate or incomplete work, even if it is not yours.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Consistently demonstrate ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner in order to meet current needs, such as reprioritizing work as necessary.
• Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of the company (education, organizing, housekeeping, ass