Nurse practitioner

• Description *Clinic is located in Sunland, Los Angeles
• Are you a passionate Nurse Practitioner committed to making a difference in the lives of patients? Look no further! CCHC, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), is seeking a dedicated NP to join our team. At CCHC, we believe that everyone deserves access to high-quality healthcare, regardless of their background or circumstances. Our mission is to provide comprehensive, compassionate care to the community we serve.

NURSE PRACTITIONER JOB SUMMARY Provides continuous and comprehensive services necessary for the promotion of optimal health, prevention and treatment, in an underserved community clinic. To perform a variety of advanced clinical duties involved in assessing, treating, controlling, and preventing patient illness and disease within the assigned public health nursing program; to perform physical examinations; identify patients with physical and emotional illness; and to administer medications as prescribed.

• NURSE PRACTITIONER ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Identify physical and emotional illnesses through observations, interpretations of laboratory finding, and analysis of patient charts; analysis of diagnostic tests and appropriate medical, hospital, or other health care as needed Facilitates and implements systems that promote effective collaborative communication with colleagues, peers, physician associates, staff, hospital relationships and other members of the health care team.
• Works closely with the Medical Director to ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
• Maintain confidentiality and patient privacy.
• Maintains Compliance with patient rights, guidelines and standards.
• Provides direction for continuous quality improvement activities and develops methods for measuring the effectiveness of education and practice activities.
• Performs in quality assurance review on a periodic basis, including systematic review of records and treatment plans.
• Assists in the establishment and maintenance of CCHC quality improvement program that monitors important aspects of care, identifies problems in care, implements changes to improve care, and evaluated effectiveness of action taken.
• Collaborates with physician colleagues of the development of process protocols and standardized procedure guidelines for the delivery of patient care.
• Monitors the success and failure of developed programs and reviews the community service satisfaction as outcome measurements.