Nurse Practitioner

Job Title Nurse Practitioner
Location Fayetteville FL

• Nurse Practitioners shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the governments requirements including the ability to speak understand read and write English fluently
• All candidates must have a current unencumbered license in a State Territory or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia.
• All candidates must be currently certified in VHAapproved Basic Life Support (BLS) or equivalency and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certifications from the American Heart Association
• Primary Care Nurse Practitioner certified in the family practice and is Board Certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Certifications and have a minimum of 5 years of experience within the last five years.
• All persons are compared against and are not listed on the OIG excluded parties list.
• They perform physical exams diagnose and treat diseases and other health conditions and prescribe medication.

Direct Patient Care: Estimated 95% of the time involved in direct patient care. Candidates shall be responsible for clinic appointments and followup of labs/imaging/procedures ordered during these appointments interpretation phone call consultation from hospitalists and intensivists on inpatients and availability for case review with nurse practitioners on service.

Scope of Care: Candidates shall be responsible for providing Family Practice and interventional Family Practice consultative services for: assessment diagnostic workup and clinic intervention including comprehensive patient assessment health history physical examination and patient education to Veterans in the Primary Care team setting; outpatient include both scheduled and unscheduled Veterans. Order and evaluate diagnostic tests as appropriate recommend treatment and/or referral. Record/document health appraisal information clinical assessments treatment decision plan of care ongoing management and therapeutic outcomes order medications diagnostic test and referral consultations where needed for every patient encounter; recording will be accomplished using the electronic comprehensive patient record system (CPRS) and will be completed on the day of the encounter.