Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides primary medical care with physician supervision for pediatric and adult patients
• Performs physical exams diagnosis including ordering and interpretation of diagnostic tests and treatment consistent with licensed scope of practice and granted privileges
• Consults with supervising physician when necessary to prepare comprehensive patient care plan
• Appropriately refers patients to physician for consultation or to specialized health resources for diagnosis and treatment as needed
• Ensures the delivery of all medical care is consistent with regulatory accreditation and professional standards including clinical policies and quality initiatives
• Participates in the review and development of clinical policies protocols and standing orders
• Actively engages in compliance and quality improvement activities including but not limited to peer review patientcentered medical home UDS reporting PDSA cycles SOAP notes other valuebased care projects
• Attends all scheduled provider and allstaff meetings and trainings unless excused by CMO
• Ensures accuracy timeliness and appropriate confidentiality with patient electronic documentation per contract
• Works evening and weekend hours as scheduled and shares afterhours call coverage with other providers
• Conducts all scheduled clinic shifts in person at assigned clinic location (Northview Heights and/or Middle Street offices) and conducts virtual visits as needed.
• Develops and ensure ongoing positive relationships and collaboration with all health center staff
• Meets professional behavioral expectations for attendance appearance professionalism communication
• Works within a multidisciplinary team
• Identifies barriers to selfmanagement plan and meeting goals
• Trains mentors and supervises students as assigned
• Consistently practices universal precautions
• Potential exposure to biohazardous materials
• Prolonged sitting and/or standing and moving about throughout the workday
• Willingness to participate in a minimum of 2 hours of community outreach per year
• Is punctual and ready to participate in clinic care at start of each clinic session
• Participates in morning patient care huddles up to 10 minutes outside of patient care hours
• Comfort working with the NSCHC faithbased mission to provide care for all who request it without judgement

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Ability to establish and maintain positive caring relationships with managers physicians advanced practice providers ancillary and support staff other departments and patients/families
• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment and with a multidisciplinary team
• Maintains requisite CME credits for area of specialty
• Strong computer skills including Word Excel and PowerPoint
• Requisite skills and ability to perform certain medical tasks as assigned
• Demonstrate a high level of problem solving skill to better serve patients and staff
• Ability to utilize computers for data entry and information retrieval

QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED FOR EMPLOYMENT)

• MSN or DNP from an accredited educational institution
• Licensed to practice in Pennsylvania
• Current Nurse Practitioner certification
• Able to care for pediatric and adult patients including newborn and geriatric patients.
• Active DEA license required
• Minimum 5 years of experience working as Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner with Board Certified Physician supervision
• Current provider card in Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Clearances: Act 33 34 73
• Annual COVID vaccination encouraged
• Annual influenza vaccine required
• Must obtain or provide proof of (within 14 days of hire): PPD Tdap Hepatitis B immunity MMR immunity varicella immunity
• Complete selfattestation of fitness for duty